About Us

AFT Colorado Contact Information

OFFICERS

President: Bernadette Jiron bernie@dfp4463.org

Secretary/Treasurer: Bill Hamaker wahamaker@gmail.com

Executive Vice President: Richard Wagner drwags59@gmail.com

Vice Presidents:

Dedra Smith, Lucy Squire, Wayne Scott, Chris Graham Herring, Marshae Banks, Christina Garcia

Staff

Executive Director: Fiona Boomer fiona@dougcofed.org

Office Manager: Cheryl Reiling clreiling@aftcolorado.org

1777 S. Bellaire Street

Suite 440

Denver, CO 80222

info@aftcolorado.org

Colorado Classified School Employees - wayne@ccsea.org

Colorado Federation School Safety Professionals - remington_simms2@gmail.com

Denver Federation Teachers - mpcerbo@yahoo.com

Denver Federation Paraprofessionals & Nutrition Service Employees - dee@dfp4463.org

Douglas County Federation - fiona@dougcofed.org

Elizabeth Federation - apayton9731@gmail.com

Emily Griffith - Vocation Teachers - lymonsneed78@gmail.com

Metro State Faculty Federation - drwags59@gmail.com

Trinidad Federation - info@aftcolorado.org

AFT Colorado History

AFT Colorado was organized as the Colorado Federation of Teachers, and was chartered October 26, 1946. In the early years there was no collective bargaining for Colorado teachers, but the CFT was effective in gaining improved working conditions for teachers and better learning conditions for students. Along with the Denver Federation of Teachers, CFT proposed statewide tenure laws, teacher certification standards, school district reorganization, and improved school financing.

The Paraprofessional and School-Related Personnel (PSRP) division of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, represents more than 350,000 school support staff in K-12 districts, colleges and universities. Our jobs include office employees, custodians, maintenance workers, bus drivers, instructional paraprofessionals, food service workers, school nurses and health aides, technicians, groundskeepers, secretaries, bookkeepers, mechanics, special education assistants and hundreds of other job titles.

About AFT Higher Education

The AFT represents higher education faculty (including both full- and part-time), professional staff and graduate employees, in all sectors of higher education—public and private, two-year and four-year institutions of higher education. MORE

About AFT Teachers

Throughout this century, the AFT has been a major force for preserving and strengthening America's democratic commitment to public education and public service. Desegregating public schools, passing the landmark Elementary and Secondary Education Act, establishing collective bargaining for teachers and other public employees, and addressing the needs of disadvantaged children are just a few of the causes the AFT has championed. MORE

History of the AFT

Learn the history of the AFT, including the union's founding in Chicago in 1916, its affiliation with the AFL-CIO, its battles for workers and human rights and its continued work to uphold the proud traditions on which the union was created.

AFT Mission Statement

The American Federation of Teachers is a union of professionals that champions fairness; democracy; economic opportunity; and high-quality public education, healthcare and public services for our students, their families and our communities. We are committed to advancing these principles through community engagement, organizing, collective bargaining and political activism, and especially through the work our members do.

About the AFT

Learn more about the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which was founded in 1916 to represent the economic, social and professional interests of classroom teachers and is an affiliated international union of the AFL-CIO.