Karen Feldman is a veteran NYC public middle school history teacher with over 26 years of experience and a leading creator of Holocaust curricula that promote tolerance and combat prejudice. She received the 2023 Louis E. Yavner Teaching Award for excellence in Holocaust and human rights education.
She also developed Leading with Kindness, an inclusion and empathy-based program now used in multiple NYC schools to inspire student leadership and community engagement.
Karen serves as Education Coordinator for the Gevura Fund, where she works to build safe, inclusive schools and develop accurate Jewish and Israel educational materials.
After the rise in antisemitism following October 7, she co-founded and now leads the NYCPS Alliance, a 2,500-member coalition dedicated to protecting students and improving school culture. Under her leadership, the Alliance collected and analyzed more than 10,000 pieces of evidence to expose biased educational materials, culminating in the NCRI report Entryism Exposed.
In addition to her work in education and advocacy, Karen is a licensed real estate agent with the Teplitzky Dunayer Team at Douglas Elliman, where she brings her commitment to community-building into strengthening neighborhoods and combating hate.
