Stacy Davis Gates

Stacy Davis Gates is Vice President for the Chicago Teachers Union, has been a high school teacher for over a decade, and lives on the south side of Chicago with her husband and three children. While at the CTU, Stacy has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve. Stacy has successfully raised millions of dollars to elect classroom teachers to all levels of local government and to challenge school privatizers and union-busters. She has also spearheaded successful statewide legislative campaigns to pass the strongest charter school accountability measures in the country, to restore the bargaining rights of Chicago Public Schools employees, and to fully fund public education by ending tax loopholes for the 1%. Stacy was elected Chair of United Working Families and serves as a board member for The Action Center on Race & the Economy. Stacy is a proud graduate of Saint Mary’s College, the University of Notre Dame, and Concordia University.