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Joshua Steckel

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Joshua Steckel has been working as a teacher and school counselor in New York City public and private schools since 2000. Josh is currently the college counselor at the Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies, a small, progressive public school serving students grades 6 through 12. Brooklyn Collaborative is a member of the NYC Outward Bound Schools network. Josh's writing and work on college access have been featured by the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Al Jazeera America, Washington Monthly, the New York Daily News, the American Prospect, the Hechinger Report, PBS NewsHour, and NPR. Josh was selected as a thought-leader for the White House’s Reach Higher initiative, and is a board member of Let’s Get Ready and College Access: Research and Action, two nonprofits dedicated to increasing opportunity in higher education. Josh and his wife, Beth Zasloff, co-wrote the award-winning book Hold Fast to Dreams, a narrative nonfiction account of the lives of 10 New York City public school students told over six years, as they work to make it to and through college. Through their stories, the book offers an up-close look at what it's like to be a low-income student trying to make good on the promise of opportunity through education in America. Josh earned his bachelor’s degree in English from Duke University. He was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned his master's degree in English. He currently serves on the advisory board for school counseling at Hunter College, where he earned his master's in education. Josh lives in Brooklyn with Beth, and their three children.
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