Super project to help people focus on the most urgent issues. Longtime fan.
@Elaine
Educator turned Director of Waitlist Zero advocating for the passage of the End Kidney Deaths Act & the prevention of kidney failure
elaineperlman.com$200 in pending offers
As the Director of Waitlist Zero, I am leading campaigns to pass the End Kidney Deaths Act, the Honor Our Living Donors Act and the Colorado CARE Act. As a non-directed, anonymous kidney donor, I launched a kidney chain where four people received kidneys in Georgia, Oklahoma and Washington State. I founded the New York City One Kidney Club, Kidneys 4 Strangers, and Vegan Kidney Donors. I lead the Global One Kidney Club and NKDO Ask Me Anything meetings. I am an NKDO kidney donation mentor and a mentor for Plant Powered Metro New York's 21 Day JumpStarts. I painted 11 school murals.
I taught for 33 years in schools ranging from the American International School of Budapest to New York City public schools. In addition to being a professor for graduate students at Teachers College, Columbia University for 6 years from 2016-2022, I was a teacher of pre-K and grades 2nd-11th.
As the Director of the Columbia University Peace Corps Fellows Program, I taught, supported, supervised & mentored 70 Jaffe Peace Corps Fellows in their first two years of teaching in NYC public schools. I founded a college-wide monthly salon, an interdepartmental exchange of ideas, to foster dialogue & collaboration.
As a school administrator, I was both a Dean and a Director of Admissions at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School & a parent advisor for the Parents League. I taught middle school enrichment classes at the Harlem Educational Activities Fund. I was a public school nutrition specialist for 2nd-5th graders in the South Bronx, Crown Heights and Harlem for the Coalition for Healthy School Food.
I earned my Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University, studying primarily English and economics, and my Master of Arts in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University. In addition, I have a degree in school administration from Shippensburg State University and am certified to teach nursery, kindergarten, grades 1-6, and English 7-12. I completed the TC course, "Food and Nutrition For All," in addition to attaining a "Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate" from Cornell University.
My curricula entitled "Exploring the Harlem Renaissance and the Italian Renaissance Periods Through Radio Plays" was published by Columbia University. I presented my ideas about education at the conferences Teaching in Trying Times, Reimagining Education, the Winter Roundtable as well as the Peace Corps Coverdell Directors Conference in Washington DC.
Elaine Perlman
17 days ago
Super project to help people focus on the most urgent issues. Longtime fan.
Elaine Perlman
22 days ago
Both the End Kidney Deaths Act and the Honor our Living Donors Act were introduced in the House of Representatives
Hosting a Lobby Day in DC on 9/12. Meeting with Congressional leaders' staffers to persuade them to cosponsor the bills.
If you want to help us advocate to end the shortage of transplantable kidneys that kills around 1000 Americans each month, go to EndKidneyDeaths.org and join our team.
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Manifund Bank | 17 days ago | deposit | +200 |