AFT Vice President
Lee Cutler is president of the Nanuet (N.Y.) Teachers Association and was elected secretary-treasurer of the New York State United Teachers in 2008. He has been a middle-school English/language arts teacher for more than 24 years in Westchester, Ulster and Rockland Counties in New York.

While the bulk of his teaching career has been in Nanuet, Cutler also taught in Marlboro and Tarrytown 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.

Cutler is an adjunct professor in the Humanistic and Multicultural Education Graduate Program at State University of New York at New Paltz.

Cutler has served as president of the Hudson/Catskill Central Labor Council and has been a member of the Hudson Valley Area Labor Federation executive board. He has served as a chair or co-chair of numerous NYSUT committees and task forces.

A graduate of SUNY New Paltz, Cutler is certified in both elementary education and secondary English/language arts. He also holds a Master of Professional Studies in Humanistic Education and a Master of Science, both from SUNY New Paltz.

(August 22, 2008)