Abram Nicolás Guerra

Abram is a facilitator, designer, and storyteller focused on Equity and Belonging, primarily in the Education Sector. He has coached diverse teams and emerging leaders, organized research, shepherded policy change, sustained communities, founded companies, and created dynamic workshop sessions for thousands of educators and administrators of public schools

He currently serves as Senior Research Manager for EJROC, the Ed Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative, at the NYU Metro Center (Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development), leading initiatives around Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Education (CRSE). By mixing methodologies from Information and Experience Design, Strategic Quality Improvement, and Decolonizing Ethnography, he has led the development of research and initiatives in NYC and beyond

While cofounding the first Employee Resource Group (ERG) in organizational history for Black and Latine employees at the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE), he developed enterprise data systems and publicly available reporting tools to increase transparency and solidarity with BIPOC students and staff citywide. He then served as part of the founding team of the Citywide Implicit Bias Awareness initiative as the Director of Policy and Research. In both roles, he formally advised on and partnered with numerous "Equity and Excellence," "...for All," and "Advance Equity Now," reforms before and after the launch of Citywide IBA

While working for the NYCDOE, Abram was part of the founding Steering Committee for the Alliance for School Integration and Desegregation, a community advocacy organization involved in the formation of the School Diversity Advisory Group (SDAG) to the DeBlasio and Cuomo administrations. The SDAG is responsible, among other reforms, for drafting the current CRSE Framework adopted as policy by the NY State Department of Education and NYCDOE

Abram graduated summa cum laude from the Boston University Questrom School of Business with an MBA in Strategy & Business Analysis and an MS in Information Systems with a focus on Design and Innovation. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from California State University Los Angeles, and serves as Moderator at United Church on the Green, a historic abolitionist church in New Haven, CT that has been welcoming and affirming to LGBTQ+ people since 1989.

Selected Projects:

NYC Public Schools Culturally Responsive Educator Development Workshops (Year 2)

Rockland County (NY) "Smart Start Grant," Interdisciplinary STEM Curriculum Workshop

School Performance Dashboard for NYC Public Schools (NYC DOE)

The Black and Latino Employee Networking and Development (The B.L.E.N.D.) ERG at the NYC DOE

NYC Alliance for School Integration and Desegregation (nycASID)

Engagement: Literature Review and Cross-Disciplinary Framework

Podcast: The Radical Bureaucrat  |  Youtube: United Church on the Green

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