Sessions
Visits to Children's Aid Community Schools
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM Wed
Gary Perez was a participant in the inaugural SU campus Teen Program back in 1991. He then went on to work as a summer camp Youth Employment Participant, then he was a Youth Facilitator, and then the Educational Coordinator. He then moved to work as the director in the same basketball program in which he participated in with Children’s Aid as a youth. Gary then moved on to work in several community schools in the Bronx and Washington Heights as Program Director and Community School Director. He also taught for 3 years in the same school in which he began his youth development career. His degrees are in English (Literature) and a minor in Education from the City College of New York and a Master’s in Teaching English to Students of Other Languages from Grand Canyon University.