Growing up, Micaela DeSimone was “one of those cliché children” who always knew she wanted to teach. With a father, two grandmothers, and several aunts and uncles in the field, the New York native decided to pursue a degree in education and became a teacher in Queens. She didn’t foresee that she would leave behind what she had thought of as her calling in June 2023, at the age of 30, after less than a decade in the classroom. DeSimone felt “demoralized,” she told me, by the low pay, the demands of learning how to teach virtually during the pandemic, and the lack of resources and support offered to teachers and students alike.
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