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Jackson Potter
VP of the Chicago Teachers Union
Jackson Potter is the Vice President of the Chicago Teachers Union. He
has been an education activist since he led a student walkout at his high
school in 1995 to push for equitable funding for schools in Illinois. As a high
school teacher and union delegate, Jackson fought school closings. After
playing a key role in organizing for Karen Lewis’s election to the CTU
presidency, Jackson served as the CTU staff coordinator from 2010 to
2018, when he left his Union staff position to return to the classroom as a
social studies teacher. Jackson was elected Vice President of the CTU in
2022.

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