District I
CTA Board member Bonnie Shatun, a Burbank educator, represents teachers in parts of Los Angeles and Kern counties and all of Mono and Inyo counties. She is serving her third three-year term on the Board of Directors, which expires June 25, 2012.
Shatun has more than 35 years of teaching experience as an educator.
She was a long-time officer of the Burbank Teachers Association and, as president, led that chapter of CTA on a successful strike in 1980.
A second-grade teacher at Bret Harte Elementary in Burbank Unified, she was chair of the CTA statewide committee that helps teachers pass local school bonds and elect pro-education school board candidates. She is also active in the California Democratic Party, and served for many years as a delegate to the CTA State Council and the National Education Association Representative Assembly.
She lives in Sherman Oaks. Email her at bshatun@cta.org.