Our+Team

=JEANNETTE HUEZO, Education Coordinator= Originally from El Salvador, Jeannette came to the US in 1989. She has spent her life working for justice and social change.

Jeannette coordinates UFE’s popular education work and facilitates many workshops, particularly for Latino groups. She is also co-author of several of UFE's // State of the Dream // reports on racial economic inequality in the U.S.

In developing confidence and leadership skills in others, Jeannette has increased the number of activists in the struggle for social change, and has empowered women, immigrants and others facing injustice to participate in the decision-making process around issues that affect their lives. Jeannette's first organizing job in United States was with the Latino Parents Association. She then went on to spend four years at the Coalition for Basic Human Needs (CBHN), organizing low-income women to fight for their rights. Then, Jeannette went to work for the Women's Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) as the Program Director / Trainer / Organizer. Following that, she worked as a Union Organizer for Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 254, organizing immigrant workers like herself to find their voice as members of the labor movement. Jeannette is an Advisory Board Member of the Center to Support Immigrant Organizing (CSIO). Jeannette is the mother of nine children, two of whom still live in El Salvador. =STEVE SCHNAPP, Education Coordinator= Steve helps design and develop UFE’s popular economics education workshops and materials, and leads workshops and presentations around the country. He has nearly 40 years experience as a community-based organizer, educator, and activist in New York City and the Greater Boston area. Steve studied popular education with Dr. Jane Vella and has led numerous Training of Trainers Institutes for organizers, community educators, and social justice activists in the U.S. and Canada. Steve also taught Community Organizing at the Boston University School of Social Work and Springfield College/School of Human Services, in the 1990s. Before coming to UFE in October 1998, Steve directed the Management and Community Development Institute at the Lincoln Filene Center for Citizen Participation at Tufts University. Steve earned a B.A. in anthropology from the City College of New York in 1969 and a Master’s Degree in Social Work from Boston University in 1981. Steve gets support and encouragement from his lifelong partner, Honey Schnapp, his daughters, Tania and Jessie, and his granddaughter Zuzu.