2025 CEC Candidate Endorsements

2025 CEC Elections: Vote online from April 25 through May 13.

Please help support PLACE NYC’s advocacy by voting for our recommended candidates for Citywide and Community Education Councils (CEC) listed below. 

These candidates are the ones we believe best align with our education advocacy based upon evaluation of: candidate statements, CEC forum participation, past CEC voting records, and statements made in public speaking sessions at education meetings (if available). We also took into consideration the candidates’ understanding of CEC’s roles and responsibilities, as well as personal leadership experience and commitment to helping NYCPS families.

Vote Online

To vote, parents must have a NYC Schools Account (NYCSA). You can access your account here. If you do not have an account, please contact your school’s Parent Coordinator for instructions on how to sign up.

Ballots

You will have at least one ballot per child in NYCPS, but possibly more ballots depending on the number of students you have in NYC public schools. If your student has an IEP or is an English Language Learner or attends a D75 school, you will have additional ballots for those citywide councils. Each ballot allows for three candidate choices – we suggest you use all choices and all ballots, unless otherwise indicated.

Community Education Councils: District 1 – 32

CEC1 (Manhattan)

  1. Noah Harlan (NEST+M)
  2. Allen Liou (PS 184 Shuang Wen)
  3. Mpolokeng Monaheng (PS 110 Florence Nightingale)
  4. Tamika Felix (PS 15 Roberto Clemente)
  5. John Monterubio Jr (PS 20 Anna Silver)
  6. Marlene Soto (PS 63 Star Academy)
  7. Renette Moore (Manhattan School for Career Development D75)

CEC2 (Manhattan)

Check here for the list of candidates we recommend specifically for your school: CEC2 Candidate Recommendations by School

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  1. Craig Slutzkin (PS 340)
  2. Danyela Egorov (PS 77 Lower Lab)
  3. Allyson Bowen (PS 234, Lab Middle)
  4. Oulfa Laamarti (PS 6)
  5. Maya Dorian (PS 260 Clinton)
  6. Waimun Yeow (PS 343 The Peck Slip School)
  7. Charles Love (PS 59)
  8. Rob Harper (Lower Manhattan Community Middle School)
  9. Casandra Williams (PS 11)
  10. Sabena Serenese (PS M226 D75) 

CEC3 (Manhattan)

Check here for the list of candidates we recommend specifically for your school: CEC3 Candidate Recommendations by School

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  1. Yael Denbo (WESS M291)
  2. Michelle Lee (PS 334 The Anderson School)
  3. Derek Schaible (MS 54-Booker T., PS 163 Alfred E. Smith)
  4. Sharon Meiri Fox (The Computer School)
  5. Sequoia Bilal (Manhattan School for Children)
  6. Ana Greenfield (PS 87, Special Music School)
  7. Jill Rackmill (The Computer School)
  8. Jessica Sleater (PS 452)
  9. Deanna Liederman (PS 84 Lillian Weber)
  10. Kristin Savov (PS 166 Richard Rogers School of the Arts & Technology)

CEC4 (Manhattan)

  1. Margaret Fernandez (TAG Young Scholars)
  2. Sophie Fall (PS 102 Jacques Cartier)
  3. Lacey Jordan (Isaac Newton MS, and D75: PS169 Robert F. Kennedy)
  4. Rosa Diaz (PS 171 Patrick Henry)

CEC5 (Manhattan)

  1. Shailesh Mishra (Columbia Secondary School)
  2. Theirno Diallo (PS 36 Margaret Douglas)
  3. Karen Wilson (PS 138 D75)

CEC6 (Manhattan)

  1. Jieshang Zheng (PS 153 Adam Clayton Powell) 
  2. Gregory Marcy (Muscota)
  3. Maria Araujo (PS/IS 187 Hudson Cliffs)
  4. Luis Camilo (Mott Hall)
  5. Rafael Landeiro (PS 153 Adam Clayton Powell)
  6. Emily Suero (D75: PS 138)

CEC7 (Bronx)

  1. Tiffany Ferguson-Merritt (PS 277)
  2. Evenly Kelsey (PS 5 Port Morris)
  3. Antoinette Kirkman (PS 154 Jonathan D. Hyatt; MS 343 Academy of Applied Mathematics and Technology)
  4. Krystal Sheppard (PS 157 Grove Hill)
  5. Tiffany Emeric (PS 43 Jonas Bronck and South Bronx Academy for Applied Media MS)
  6. Brenida Parson (PS 188X D75)

CEC8 (Bronx)

  1. Melissa Gardella (PS 71 Rose E. Scala)
  2. Sara Robertson (PS 182)
  3. Crystal Rodriguez  (PS 140 The Eagle School and MS301 Paul L. Dunbar)
  4. Bibi Ali (PS 119 Dr Emmett W. Bassett)
  5. Aileen Fadgen (PS 75 School of Research & Discovery)
  6. LaTicia Thompson (PS 62 Inocenzio Casanova)
  7. Wanda Ivette Balines (PSX017 D75)

CEC9 (Bronx)

  1. Maribel Gonzalez (Grant Ave. Elementary School and BECA for Teaching & Learning)
  2. Ricarda Pantaleon (Mott Hall III)
  3. Sheila Veronessa  (PS 204 Morris Heights)
  4. Priscilla Alexander (PS 199 The Shakespeare School)
  5. Cindy Hunt (D75: The Bronx School for Continuous Learners)

CEC10 (Bronx)

  1. Melanie Johnson (PS 7 Milton Fein)
  2. Abraham Wolcott (PS 81 Robert J. Christen)
  3. Oded Arazi (PS 84 Spuyten Duyvil)
  4. Sean August (PS 84 Spuyten Duyvil and Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy)
  5. Chad Royer (PS 86 Kingsbridge Heights)
  6. Lance Greene (D75: PSX721 Stephen D. McSweeney school)

CEC11 (Bronx)

  1. Ritesh Aggarwal (PS X121 Throop)
  2. Topaz Murray-Small (PS 160 Walt Disney) 
  3. Anisa Ndoci (PS 096 – Richard Rogers)
  4. Megi Koruni (PS 68 Bronx – The Edward A. Fogel for Critical Thinking  and the Arts)
  5. Waly Mbaye (PS 019 Judith K. Weiss)
  6. Kabiru Sonko (PS 97 Bronx and JHS 144 Michelangelo)
  7. Stefannie Bonilla (D75: PS 176X and PS X596)

CEC12 (Bronx)

  1. Eduardo Guadalupe (PS 195)
  2. Tondalaya Alston (Samara Community School)
  3. Francia Minier (School of Science & Applied Learning)
  4. Diana Sambula (Fairmont Neighborhood School)
  5. Maria Martinez (PS 214 – Lorraine Hansberry Academy)
  6. Chanel Stokes (D75: PS186X: Walter J. Damroch)

CEC13 (Brooklyn)

Jamel Talbi (PS 8 The Emily Warren Roebling School)

CEC14 (Brooklyn)

Amanda Lopez (PS 18 Edward Bush)

CEC15 (Brooklyn)

  1. Qingxia Zhu (PS 169 Sunset Park)
  2. Johanny Martinez (PS 15 Patrick Daly)
  3. Kareem Michael (PS 28 The Pacific School)

CEC16 (Brooklyn)

Janera Johnson (PS 021 Crispus Attucks)

CEC17 (Brooklyn)

  1. Michelle Morris (PS 181 Brooklyn)
  2. Leon Gidron (MS K394)
  3. Dory Thrasher (Brooklyn Arts and Science Elementary School)
  4. Rashad Weston (PS 375 Jackie Robinson School)

CEC18 (Brooklyn)

  1. Keya Grant (P.S. 115 Daniel Mucatel School)
  2. Anderson David (P.S. 235 Janice Marie Knight School,  Lenox Academy M. S. 961)

CEC19 (Brooklyn)

  1. Emily Walker (P.S. 149 Danny Kaye)
  2. Kimberly Washington (P.S. 345 Patrolman Robert Bolden)
  3. Danille Paul (East New York Family Academy)

CEC20 (Brooklyn)

Check here for the list of candidates we recommend specifically for your school: CEC20 Candidate Recommendations by School

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  1. Kevin Zhao (PS 185 Walter Kassenbrock)
  2. Elizabeth Chan (PS 205 The Clarion School)
  3. John Ricottone (PS 200 The Benson School)
  4. Nenying Shi  (PS 170 The Ralph Fabrizio School) 
  5. Elizabeth Zhu (PS 686 Brooklyn School of Inquiry) 
  6. Na Lin (PS 69 Vincent D. Grippo School, IS 201 The Madeleine Brennan School)
  7. Ken Li (PS/IS 30 Mary White Ovington, PS 102 The Bayview)
  8. Mei Fang Chen (PS/IS 229 Dyker)
  9. Yingxin Rong (PS 160 William T. Sampson)
  10. Wen Chen (PS/IS 180 The SEEALL Academy)
  11. Steven Mahoney (PS 36 D75) 

CEC21 (Brooklyn)

  1. Mei ping Tran (PS 97 Highlawn)
  2. Dawn Qiu (IS 98 Bay Academy, PS 101 Verrazano) 
  3. Qingping Yang  (IS 239 Mark Twain)
  4. Elizabeth Chan (IS 281 Joseph B Cavallaro)
  5. Esfira Shakhmurova (PS 215 Morris H Weiss)
  6. Petra Remy (P.S. K721 – Brooklyn Occupational Training Center D75)

CEC22 (Brooklyn)

  1. Kinga Kusek (PS 254, JHS 278 Marine Park)
  2. Vanessa Cannistraci (PS 207 Elizabeth G. Leary)
  3. Zheng Hao Ma (PS 197)
  4. Anson Kau (PS 206 Joseph F Lamb)
  5. Christine Eddi (JHS. 078 Roy H. Mann, PS 312 Bergen Beach, PS K721 – Brooklyn Occupational Training Center D75)
  6. Johanna Fabre Vargas (PS 139)

CEC23 (Brooklyn)

  1. Jorshea Tucker (Eagle Academy for Young Men II)
  2. Amanda Pitts (PS 137 Rachel Jean Mitchell)
  3. Katherine Brockington (PS/IS 323)

CEC24 (Queens)

  1. Matthew Crescio (PS 229 Emanuel Kaplan)
  2. Anna Karwowska (PS 153)
  3. Manisha Jain (PS/IS 119 The Glendale
  4. Kate Barvels (PS 49 Dorothy Bonawit Kole)
  5. Edward Harvey (PS 128 The Lorraine Tuzzo, Juniper Valley Elementary School)
  6. Dawn Akerley (PS 091 Richard Arkwright)
  7. Haque Aklima (PS 088 Seneca)
  8. Pawel Maciag (IS 093 Ridgewood, A.C.E. Academy for Scholars at the Geraldine Ferraro)
  9. Nisa Rahman (PS 007 Louis F. Simeone)

CEC25 (Queens)

  1. Sung eun Lee (PS 32)
  2. Christine Huang (PS 021 Edward Hart)
  3. Miaoqin Tang (Queens School of Inquiry)
  4. Chunxia Xu (PS 201)
  5. Carlos Bustamante (PS 209)
  6. Vincent Lu (The Active Learning Elementary School)
  7. Ismat Juneja (JHS 189)
  8. Angella Harris (PS 79, JHS 185)
  9. Shawna Williams (PS 169 Bay Terrace, BELL Academy)

CEC26 (Queens)

  1. Albert Suhu (JHS 216)
  2. Dennis Chan (PS 94)
  3. Sulinda Hong (MS 74, PS 188)
  4. Sae-Jung Lee (MS 67)
  5. Qian Kang (PS 213)
  6. Monica Huang (PS 98 The Douglaston School)
  7. David Rosenfeld (PS 376, MS 158)
  8. Ripan Biswas (PS 18 Winchester)
  9. Hsuante Tsai (PS 162)

CEC27 (Queens)

  1. Bibi Jadubans (PS 63, MS 137)
  2. Vidya Jamoona (PS 100 Glen Morris)
  3. Hammad Sharif (JHS 202, S.T.A.R. Leadership Academy)
  4. Lovedeep Kaur (PS 51)
  5. Esam Ahmed (PS 47)
  6. Mahanaj Parvin (PS 66 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, MS 137 America’s School of Heroes)
  7. Robert Kearns (PS 66 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
  8. Olufunmilola Popoola (Goldie Maple Academy)
  9. Monica Mero (PS 146 Howard Beach)

CEC28 (Queens)

Check here for the list of candidates we recommend specifically for your school: CEC28 Candidate Recommendations by School

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  1. Jean Hahn (JHS 157 Halsey)
  2. Lu Zhao (JHS 190 Russell Sage)
  3. Gurumurthy Kalyanaram (PS 303 Acad. for Excel. through the Arts)
  4. Olessia Bauer (PS 117)
  5. Geoffrey Luan (PS 196 Grand Central Parkway)
  6. Jieling Cheng (PS 144 Col Jeromus Remsen)
  7. Chantel Chambers  (PS 121)
  8. Quentin Mezetin (Q329) 

CEC29 (Queens)

  1. Mejbah Ahmed (PS 095 Eastwood)
  2. Dilruba Jahan (PS 033 Edward M. Funk, Jean Nuzzi Intermediate School)
  3. Ayesha Siddiqa (PS 131 Abigail Adams)
  4. David Washington (PS/MS 147 Ronald McNair)
  5. Natalie Moving-Richards (IS 192 The Linden)
  6. Priscilla Monteiro (PS/IS 208)

CEC30 (Queens)

  1. Pulak Patel (Robert F. Wagner, Jr. School)
  2. Danielle Lopresti (Hunter’s Point Community MS, Hunter’s Point ES)
  3. Victoria Medelius (The Hector Figueroa School)
  4. Syed Imteaz (The Woodside Community School)
  5. Nadeea Saeed (Fire Fighter Christopher A. Santora School)

CEC31 (Staten Island)

  1. James Desiderato (PS 60 Alice Austin, PS 64 Robert Simon and IS 72 Rocco Laurie) 
  2. Andrew Guido (PS 8 Shirlee Solomon)
  3. Frank Marino (PS 32 Gifford School)

CEC32 (Brooklyn)

  1. Jessica Mackey Jean (PS 274 Kosciusko)
  2. Yenny Pascacio (PS 151, Evergreen Middle School for Urban Exploration)
  3. Desines Rodriguez (PS 376)

Citywide Council for High Schools

CCHS Bronx

  1. Deborah Alexander (The Bronx High School of Science)
  2. Deborah Kross (HSAS)

CCHS Brooklyn

  1. Linda Quarles (Brooklyn Technical High School)
  2. Elizabeth Chan (New Utrecht HS)
  3. Jessica Hendrix (Midwood HS)

CCHS Manhattan

  1. Benjamin Morden (Stuyvesant HS)
  2. Manpreet Kaur Boparai (Eleanor Roosevelt HS)
  3. Oded Arazi (Clinton HS)

CCHS Queens

  1. Ephraim Zakry (Townsend Harris HS) 
  2. Nathifa Lewis (Forest Hills HS)
  3. Lawrence Lee (Queens HS for the Sciences at York College)

CCHS Staten Island

  1. James Desiderato (Gaynor McCown Expeditionary Learning School)

Citywide Council for English Language Learners

CCELL Manhattan / Staten Island / The Bronx

  1. Sang Ha Chung (La Guardia Perf Arts)
  2. Theirno Diallo (PS 036 Margaret Douglas)
  3. Clive Liew (High School for Dual Language and Asian Studies)

CCELL Brooklyn

  1. Mohammad Kamal (PS 207 Elizabeth G. Leary)
  2. Qing Li (PS 127 McKinley Park)
  3. Juan Zhao (Brooklyn Technical High School)

CCELL Queens

  1. Xianrong Swing Liang (Halsey Middle School)
  2. Chunxia Xu (PS 201 The Discovery School for Inquiry and Research)
  3. Ahmed Husain (Benjamin N. Cardozo High School)

Citywide Council for Special Education

CCSE Manhattan/Staten Island /The Bronx

1. Evenly Kelsey (PS 5 Port Morris)

2. Darlene Martinez (MS 101 The Edward R. Byrne School)

4. Esther Villacis Ruiz (PS 168 Success Express)

5. Francia Minier (The School of Science and Applied Learning)

CCSE Brooklyn / Queens

  1. Yingxin Rong (PS 160 William T. Sampson)

2. Susan Wong-Benjamin (PS X596)

3. Nisa Rahman (PS 007 Louis F. Simeone)

4. Angella Harris (PS 79 Queens Francis Lewis School, JHS 185 Edward Bleeker)

5. Monica Mero (PS 146 Howard Beach)

6. Olufunmilola Popoola (PS/IS 333 Goldie Maple Academy)

7. Masuma Akter (PS 224 Hale A. Woodruff)

CCD75 Citywide

  1. Susan Wong-Benjamin (PS X596)
  2. Christina Grooms (75X079)
  3. Lance Greene (Stephen McSweeney School)
  4. Sharon Stewart (PS 168X)
  5. Petra Remy (PS K721 – Brooklyn Occupational Training Center)
  6. Renette Moore (75M751)
  7. Sabena Serenese (75M226) 
  8. Emily Suero (PS 138)
  9. Brenida Parson (PS 188X)
  10. Wanda Ivette Balines (PSX017)
  11. Cindy Hunt (The Bronx School for Continuous Learners)
  12. Steven Mahoney (PS 36 D75)