The Hudson Valley native learned from her dad early on to always ask questions. That advice has played a key role in Gerhards’ career, where she now sits in the upper echelons of the New York City real estate world. “I feel like every step of my career has been as a way to learn...
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Before Karen Alford was appointed UFT representative for Brooklyn’s Ocean Hill-Brownsville community in 2005 after more than a decade of teaching, the union had never had a Black woman in that role – in a predominantly African American school district. Alford excelled as a leader, and was e...