Greg is co-host of the WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN! The Podcast. He is co-author of When We Fight, We Win! which weaves together stories, lessons and art of successful leaders and artists in today’s social movements. Published in 2016, the book is now in its 6th printing and is widely used in high schools and college campuses. Greg creates each of these works with Deymirie Hernández of AgitArte.
A son of Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazis, he has been engaged in struggles in Boston, New York City, Spain, Puerto Rico and Central America. Greg has launched and nurtured transformative, sustainable, social justice organizations that have won milestone victories for historically underserved children and communities.
He frequently shares his expertise as a trainer and inspirational speaker on webinars at social justice organizations, foundations, universities, high-school, and religious groups. He spoke on a webinar with Bend the Arc: Jewish Action on Structural Racism and Wealth and at Brandeis University about the Sociology of Empowerment, among many others.
Greg is co-founder and first president of the award-winning, Schott Foundation for Public Education, whose mission is to develop and strengthen a broad-based and representative movement to achieve fully resourced, quality PreK-12 public education. He started out his career in 1981 as a high-school English teacher in rural Maine and later became head of the English Department at a high-school in Barranquilla, Colombia, SA. Greg later trained adult literacy teachers at Roxbury Community College. He later became an organizer.
He has a Masters from the Teachers College at Columbia University.
Greg is the recipient of many awards including The Center for Community Change Champion Award and the Tikkun Olam “Healing the World” award from his temple Beth El, of Belmont.
He is a certified mountain guide and enjoys music and nature with friends and family.