Christina Cover is a Special Education teacher and the Literacy Coordinator at a public high school in the Bronx. As Literacy Coordinator, she leads a new Structured Literacy program created to provide science of reading-aligned literacy instruction and interventions for 9th grade students. She is Secretary of the Bronx/Upper Manhattan Democratic Socialists of America Organizing Committee. Before starting work as a teacher, she worked as a Seek Common Ground Fellow and as Communications Coordinator in the office of Assembly Member Khaleel M. Anderson and also served with the AmeriCorps program City Year. She earned a B.A. in Communication Sciences and Disorders from CUNY Queens College and an M.A. in Intellectual Disabilities/Autism and dual teaching certification in English Language Arts and Special Education (7-12) from Teachers College, Columbia University.