AFT Vice President
Lee Cutler is president of the Nanuet (N.Y.) Teachers Association.  Cutler currently teaches English/Language Arts at the middle school level in Rockland County, N.Y.

He has been president of his local for nine years and has taught middle level English in Nanuet for the past 17 years. Previously, Cutler taught in Marlboro and Tarrytown, N.Y., and spent a year as a teaching assistant in The Walkabout, an alternative high school program modeled after Outward Bound. Cutler was a leader and eventually a director for Children's International Summer Villages, where he brought groups of children to international villages in both Denmark and France. In his final year with CISV, Cutler directed the 1987 International Village in Peekskill, N.Y. He is an experienced wilderness instructor, naturalist and camp leader. Cutler is also an adjunct professor in the Humanistic and Multicultural Education Graduate Program at SUNY New Paltz and is a 2000 graduate of the NYSUT Leadership Institute at Cornell University and a 2003 graduate of the AFL-CIO/Cornell Leadership Institute.

Educational background: Masters of Professional Studies in Humanistic Education, State University of New York New Paltz; Masters of Science, SUNY New Paltz; certified in both elementary education and secondary English/Language Arts.

Other union-related and professional positions/activities: President, Rockland County Teachers Association, a coalition of all public school unions in the county; president, Hudson/Catskill Central Labor Council; executive board member, Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. Board member, New York State United Teachers; also serves on several NYSUT committees. Cutler is a policy board member of the Rockland Teachers Institute, a standing member of New York State Education Department's internal advisory committee on middle level education and a board member of Orange County United Way.