Dr. Anael Alston Biography

Dr. Anael Alston "Dr. A" was born and raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and is presently the Assistant Commissioner for the New York State Education Department's Office of Access, Equity, and Community Engagement. In this role, he impacts educational policy across the state and oversees the administration of over $200 million in funding to serve children from pre-kindergarten to college in New York State. He was the Superintendent of Schools for the Hamilton Central School District prior to that. Dr. Alston distinguished himself as one of the few superintendents in the state to have a 100 percent graduation rate while advancing an agenda that included developing a program that allows international students to pay tuition to attend public school and involving the entire school community in developing a board-adopted 5-year strategic plan to improve access, opportunity, and a positive learning environment. Dr. Alston's ability to manage teams to expand capacity and raise student success has been acknowledged at the county, state, and national levels during his time as a principal. Dr. Alston has written political commentary for Newsday as well as local, regional, and national publications; he has presented on school change and curriculum reform at national and statewide conferences; he has testified for Governor Cuomo's Education Reform Commission, and he has made guest appearances on radio shows as an education expert. From Brooklyn, New York to Cape Town, South Africa, he has been consulted on numerous educational projects and has made lectures. He's also the co-author of You're Hired: The Inside Secrets to Landing Your School Leadership Job. His most recent essay, “Growing Up Single: An Unorthodox Road Traveled,” was published in the summer of 2017 as a featured chapter in Dr. Donna Y. Ford's book, Telling Our Stories: Culturally Different Adults Reflect on Growing Up in Single-Parent Families.

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