Amote Sias is an American activist and educator based in

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

. She is a founding principal of Brooklyn Collegiate in

Brownsville, Brooklyn Brownsville is a residential neighborhood in eastern Brooklyn in New York City. The neighborhood is generally bordered by Crown Heights to the northwest; Bedford–Stuyvesant and Cypress Hills to the north; East New York to the east; Canarsie ...

Career

Sias was active in Brooklyn politics throughout the 1970s and 1980s with a focus on social justice, women's rights and Black Nationalism. She was involved in the committee to Elect Jesse Jackson for President throughout the

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, and ran for

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herself the following year. As an educator, Sias taught various subjects and grades from 1985 to 1999, when she became the Leadership Development Coordinator for

and

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high schools. She wrote a proposal for the creation of Brooklyn Collegiate, a

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school that opened in

in 2004. In 2010 she was recognized by the

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for her achievements as an educator.

References

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