My name is Alison Cundiff.  I am honored to represent you, and I am humbled by the trust you have placed in me as your President.

Since 2017, I have taught at Duluth Middle School in a variety of concentrations:  Special Ed, Gen Ed, and ESOL English Language Arts, as well as Reading/Math Intervention classes. A first-generation college student, I am a graduate of both the University of Georgia BFA and Mercer University MAT programs.  I switched careers to teach in public school because it appealed to my need for purpose-driven work.

I have been an active member of GCAE/GAE/NEA since the year 2020.  In 2021, I organized a Teach-In before the Georgia Capitol in order to demand earlier COVID-19 vaccination availability for teachers and education support professionals.  At my school, I worked with others to win adequate bus access for Title I students.  I have served as Treasurer for GCAE, Director of the Board for GAE, and delegate to the GAE and NEA Representative Assemblies.

I believe firmly in the values of duty, collaboration, resourcefulness, and persistence.  My father drove a forklift and my immigrant mother cut hair, both working hard to take care of three children; from an early age, this meant looking after my brothers while one parent worked nightshift and the other took dayshift.  In my work as a classroom teacher, grassroots activist, and GCAE/GAE board member, I have leveraged shared power as a means to shared victory.  We have so much more in common than our differences would lead us to believe. When we reach across those differences to join hands, we become the true shakers and shapers of the world.

Bus Driver, Collins Hill Cluster

Teacher, Parkview HS