Randi Weingarten is an American labor activist, lawyer, and educator who was born on December 18, 1957. She is a part of the AFL-CIO and the president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). She served as the United Federation of Teachers’ previous president. Who is Randi Weingarten wife, Sharon Kleinbaum?
In this article, we are going to discuss the relationship background of the American teacher who has spent many years shaping the lives of American children.
Who is Randi Weingarten?
Before we look into who the wife of the American educator is, let’s get to learn a thing or two about her early life as well as her early life as a professional educator.
Gabriel and Edith Weingarten raised a Jewish family in New York City, where Rhonda “Randi” Weingarten was born in 1957.
Her mother was a teacher, and her father worked as an electrical engineer.
Weingarten attended Clarkstown High School North in New City after growing up in Rockland County, New York.
She believes herself to be a profoundly pious Jew and attends Congregation Beit Simchat Torah.
Weingarten served as a legislative aide for the New York State Senate’s Labor Committee from 1979 to 1980.
She graduated with a B.S. in labor relations from Cornell University’s ILR School in 1980 and a J.D. from Yeshiva University’s Cardozo School of Law in 1983.
With careers in law and in education, Randi Weingarten wife as well as her family, must be proud of her for her achievements, but how did her career begin?
Career Beginnings
From 1983 until 1986, Weingarten practiced law for the firm of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, where she represented the UFT in a number of contentious arbitration proceedings.
In 1986, she was chosen to serve as an adjunct professor at the Cardozo School of Law.
She also served as an attorney with Wien Malkin and Bettex’s real estate division.
Weingarten was hired in 1986 as Sandra Feldman’s legal representative.
For the union, Weingarten addressed serious grievances.
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She also served as the union’s primary attorney in many lawsuits concerning school finance and safety that were brought against New York City and the state of New York.
She became the union’s chief negotiator in the UFT contract talks in the early 1990s.
Throughout the 1990s, she adopted more aggressive negotiating tactics.
What does Randi Weingarten wife, Sharon Kleinbaum do? We shall find out soon.
Randi Weingarten worked as a teacher at Brooklyn’s Clara Barton High School from 1991 to 1997.
Among the subjects she instructed were law, medical ethics, AP political science, and US history and government.
Weingarten was one of the instructors for children who participated in the We the People civics competition, which took home the state title in New York in 1994–1995 and finished fourth overall.
Meet Randi Weingarten Wife, Sharon Kleinbaum
Randi Weingarten wife is Sharon Kleinbaum, to whom she got married on March 25, 2018. Before then she had been with Liz Margolies.
What do we know about Sharon Kleinbaum?
Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York City is led spiritually by American rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, born in 1959.
Randi Weingarten wife has been a vocal advocate for civil unions for lesbian couples and for human rights.
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom does not require congressional approval for presidential appointees, and President Biden announced plans to nominate Kleinbaum on July 30, 2021.
In 1992, Kleinbaum was appointed as CBST’s first rabbi. She is a well-known supporter of human rights.
In 1995, Kleinbaum, Rabbi Margaret Wenig, and Russell Pearce sent a resolution to the Reform movement’s Commission on Social Action asking for support for civil marriage for gay couples; after they approved it, Wenig sent it to the Central Conference of American Rabbis, which approved it in 1996.
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