Amie Baca-Oehlert is a high school counselor and the president of the Colorado Education Association, the 39,000-member-strong statewide teacherâs union.
She won the job by acclamation when she was elected to a three-year term in 2018. Baca-Oehlert had been the union s vice president since 2012. She succeeded Kerrie Dallman, who was term-limited.
She works for the Adams 12 Five Star Schools and is a past president of the District 12 Educatorsâ Association and an ethnic minority at large member on the CEA Board of Directors.
She started out at Adams City High School, where she was also the varsity cheerleading coach.
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