Princess Moss is the new president-elect of the National Education Association, and will take the reins of one of the most influential K-12 organizations in a time of rapid change in the education landscape.
Moss, 65, taught elementary music for 21 years in Louisa County, Virginia before joining the national union. She said her rural upbringing—both her parents drove school buses in Memphis, Va.—spurs her drive to improve equity and support for rural students.
“We are not only educators, not only organizers. We are advocates. We are the ones to know what our students need and we are willing to fight for all of them,” Moss said.
