Stacy Davis Gates is President of the Chicago Teachers Union, Executive Vice President of the Illinois Federation of Teachers, Vice President of the American Federation of Teachers, and Chair of United Working Families. President Davis Gates helped lead a 15-day strike and negotiate a historic contract that provides for smaller class sizes, ensuring a nurse and social worker in every Chicago public school, securing sanctuary protections for immigrant families, and supporting students experiencing homelessness.

At the CTU, President Davis Gates has been the architect of bold political and legislative campaigns for the schools and city that all Chicagoans deserve, including the election of CTU organizer Brandon Johnson as Mayor of Chicago.

She has spearheaded statewide legislative campaigns that enacted an elected school board for Chicago, won the strongest charter school accountability measures in the country, and secured millions in state funding for Chicago Public Schools.

President Davis Gates taught high school social studies for over a decade at Englewood, Clemente and Mason Community Links High Schools. She lives on the South Side of Chicago with her husband and three children.