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ALYA STOFFER Koloszyc (she/her)

Alya cares deeply about humanity, this great green earth, and all its inhabitants, past, present, and future. She believes that the revolution is possible; that this revolution starts in our homes and neighborhoods and schools and can begin simply with the way we treat children - our own and others (who are also our own!); and that it is her duty to use her privilege to work for the liberation of all humans, especially the ones who are most marginalized by the capitalist, white supremacist, patriarchal, colonizer culture that her people created and her country upholds.

Alya takes the following directives very seriously: Angela Davis: “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all of the time.” Toni Morrison: “The function of freedom is to free someone else.” Kazu Haha: “What are YOU going to do to transform the culture of violence?” Jackie Summers: “Dear White friends...Change the culture.”

Alya has a masters degree in Early Childhood and Elementary Education from Bank Street College. She has been teaching in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade classrooms in New York City, Vermont, and Massachusetts since 2000. She founded New Village in 2011 when her children were 1 and 3 years old.