Throughout my 30 year teaching career, I have taught in New York City Public Schools in the South Bronx and Manhattan, at colleges and universities such as NYU, Columbia, The New School, and Queens and Brooklyn Colleges, and served as a teacher and senior administrator at Trinity School (NYC), a leading independent school. The goal of my teaching and scholarship is to connect intellectual work with genuine needs in the world. In addition to my extensive teaching and administrative experience, I have developed thought leading K-12 curricula, innovative university courses, and service learning and social impact programming. Currently on the faculty of NYU, I have developed a new course entitled Achievement Culture & the American Dream: Who Matters?.