CherylAnne Amendola has been teaching American and World History for the last 17 years.  Most recently, she was named 2023 National Council for the Social Studies Middle Level Educator of the Year. She graduated from Montclair State University with a B.A. in Political Science and from Teachers College, Columbia University with an M.A. in Social Studies Education, and an M.A. in American History from Pace University in partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. She was named 2017 New Jersey History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute for American History and is an ambassador for the New York Historical Society’s Women and the American Story program.

CherylAnne published her first book in November 2019 entitled “On the Backs of the Enslaved” and is the host of the Teaching History Her Way Podcast.