Fedrick C. Ingram

Fedrick C. Ingram is secretary-treasurer of the AFT, serving 1.8 million members, including pre-K through 12th-grade teachers; paraprofessionals and other school-related personnel; higher education faculty and professional staff; federal, state and local government employees; and nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Ingram is the immediate past president of the 140,000-member Florida Education Association. He served on the AFT’s executive council as an AFT vice president for six years (2014-2020) before being elected as the AFT’s secretary-treasurer.

Since becoming secretary-treasurer in 2020, Ingram has amplified the voices of AFT members nationwide, particularly on education, labor and racial justice. In 2022, Ingram was elected to serve as a trustee on the board of the NAACP Foundation. Appointed by President Joe Biden, he served on the Presidential Advisory Commission on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans from 2023 to 2025.

Ingram serves on the executive committee of the AFL-CIO’s Transportation Trades Department and on the board of Union Plus, a member benefits organization founded by the AFL-CIO. In 2022, he was elected to be a vice president of the AFL-CIO’s Union Label and Service Trades Department, which oversees a clearinghouse of public and private sector collective bargaining agreements. In 2021, he was elected to chair the AFL-CIO’s Department for Professional Employees, a coalition of unions representing millions of professional and technical employees, including doctors, lawyers, engineers, teachers, actors and other highly trained workers. He is also on the board of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, a coalition of over 70 international and national unions dedicated to ensuring freedom and fairness for Black workers.

Ingram grew up in inner-city Miami, where he attended public schools. Pursuing his love of music, he attended Bethune-Cookman University on scholarship and became the first member of his family to earn a postsecondary degree, in music education. In addition to his bachelor’s degree from Bethune-Cookman, Ingram earned a master’s degree in educational leadership from Barry University, where in 2024 he delivered the commencement address for the university’s Adrian Dominican School of Education, Leadership and Human Development. Fedrick is married to Tanya Ingram.