About EPIC
EPIC is a non-profit organization that is focused on empowering teachers to impact the process of education reform. We were founded on the belief that today's educators have the power to transform the teaching profession, and must play an essential role in developing education policy.
We help teachers find their own voice, enabling them to become self-advocates and catalysts at the local, regional, and national level. By providing exceptional resources and support, we're inspiring an education revolution that will dramatically improve education reform.
Myra Sawyers has spent over fourteen years as an advocate for change. During the 1992 elections, she worked on many grassroots campaigns in California which led to several statewide democratic victories. In 1993 she moved to Washington, D.C. where she spent six years working as an aide for U.S. Representative Patsy T. Mink on issues concerning women and education. Following her work on Capitol Hill, she began teaching first grade at Wakefield School in The Plains, Virginia. In 2004 she founded Educators for Progressive Instructional Change (EPIC), a non-profit organization whose mission is to connect, inspire and motivate teachers to become an indomitable force for education reform.
Genevieve Lindsay was born and raised in Norfolk, Virginia. She moved to Northern Virginia in 1993. Genevieve holds a M.Ed. from the University of Virginia, and a B.A. in Theatre from Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C. Genevieve teaches in a public school at the elementary level. She lives in Falls Church with her two Labrador retrievers, Maggie and Gravely.
John Taylor Gatto was born in Monongahela, Pennsylvania, a river town thirty-five miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Mr.Gatto attended public schools in Swissvale, Monongahela and Uniontown. After college, Mr. Gatto worked as a scriptwriter in the film business, was an advertising writer, a taxi driver, a jewelry designer, and a songwriter before becoming a schoolteacher. He climaxed his teaching career as New York State Teacher of the Year after being named New York City teacher of the year on three occasions. He left teaching on the OP ED page of the Wall Street Journal in 1991 while still New York State Teacher of the Year, claiming that "..he was no longer willing to hurt children".
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