Our Officers
Our CTA President is E. Toby Boyd, our Vice President is David Goldberg, our Secretary-Treasurer is Leslie Littman and our Executive Director is Joe Boyd.
Executive Officer Bios
CTA President E. Toby Boyd
A kindergarten educator and public schools advocate, California Teachers Association President E. Toby Boyd leads the 310,000-strong union of educators statewide. President Boyd, serving his second term as president, is proudly leading the way to improve teaching and learning conditions with a strong commitment to racial and social justice while providing a voice for all educators.
His background includes a host of leadership and advocacy roles during a 25-year teaching career in the Elk Grove Unified School District, two terms as CTA District E Governing Board member and long-standing delegate for the National Education Association Representative Assembly.
President Boyd was instrumental to ensuring the safety of California’s educators, students and their families surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, from pivoting to and back from virtual instruction, providing meals and access to technology, and securing vaccines for educators, to Supplemental leave for employees to recover or care for their families.
He is a graduate of California State University-Sacramento, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies with an emphasis in bilingual/cross-cultural studies, and then earned his teaching credential from the Multi-Cultural/Multi-Lingual Center at the university.
Contacting E. Toby Boyd
California Teachers Association , P.O. Box 921
1705 Murchison Drive
Burlingame, CA 94011-0921
Phone: (650) 552-5305 Fax: (650) 552-5007
tboyd@cta.org | Twitter: @ETobyBoyd | Download bio
Vice President David B. Goldberg
An educator for more than 20 years, CTA Vice President David B. Goldberg has spent most of his career as a bilingual teacher at Murchison Elementary in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). In addition to English, he is fluent in both Spanish and sign language.
Goldberg has a long history of union activism. In addition to serving two terms on the CTA Board, he also served as treasurer of the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) and was the youngest executive officer to ever hold office in that union.
His CTA activism has included working on the Budget Committee of the CTA State Council of Education, as liaison to Council’s Teacher Evaluation and Academic Freedom Committee, and taking part in CTA’s State of Emergency actions in 2011 (he spent a night in jail along with dozens of other educators who participated in civil disobedience at the State Capitol building to protest funding cuts). He is also a leader in CTA’s Strategic Planning Workgroup. As secretary-treasurer he ensured that CTA remained fiscally sound following years of cuts to California schools, and worked with the CTA Budget Committee and State Council to ensure that CTA’s fiscal priorities aligned with the goals of its members and the Strategic Plan. Goldberg is from a family of education union leaders; his grandmother was an early member of UTLA and took part in the LAUSD strike in the 1970s that gave birth to the union. His aunt, Jackie Goldberg, was chair of the state Assembly Education Committee and also a leader in the education field. His wife, Karla Alvarado-Goldberg, is a middle school psychiatric social worker in LAUSD and a member of the CTA State Council of Education.
He sees advocacy for a strong public education system as part of a larger struggle for social justice and knows that CTA continues to have an important role in that movement.
Goldberg earned a bachelor’s degree in community studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and after a brief career as a professional basketball player, obtained his teaching credential through the intern program in Los Angeles Unified.
He is a lifelong resident of the Echo Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and their three children.
Contacting David Goldberg
California Teachers Association, P.O. Box 921
1705 Murchison Drive
Burlingame, CA 94011-0921
Phone: (650) 552-5307 Fax: (650) 552-5007
dgoldberg@cta.org | Twitter: @teachergoldberg | Download bio
Secretary-Treasurer, Leslie Littman
Secretary-Treasurer Leslie Littman, who has taught AP US History, Economics and Government at Hart High School in the William S. Hart Union High School District for 28 years, served seven years on the CTA Board of Directors prior to her election to executive office in 2019. In addition, she advised yearbook for a decade, led the school’s accreditation review twice, and served as a mentor teacher. In the 2011-12 school year, she received the NEA Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence.
At the state level, she served on the CTA State Council as a delegate and later as chair of the Credentials and Professional Development and Elections Committees.
Additionally, she was a member of the CTA ABC Committee, CTA’s political action committee, for nine years. From 2003-2008, Littman served as the Superintendent of Public Instruction’s designee on the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
A graduate of California public schools and universities, she received her BA in History and Economics and Master’s Degree in Education from UCLA. Littman became a teacher because it is a profession where each day is different, and each day brings a new opportunity to help students achieve their dreams.
She resides in Santa Clarita.
Contacting Leslie Littman
California Teachers Association, P.O. Box 921
1705 Murchison Drive
Burlingame, CA 94011-0921
Phone: (650) 552-5306 Fax: (650) 552-5007
LLittman@cta.org | Twitter: @leslielittman | Download bio
Executive Director, Joe Boyd
Along with decades of leadership, management and field experience, new CTA Executive Director Joe Boyd brings an organizer’s mindset to working with members; A sign that says “Work hard and be kind” is displayed prominently in his office. The maxim ties into advice he received as a labor organizer that still guides his approach today: Don’t take yourself too seriously, take the people around you very seriously, but remember that everyone’s got their own issues. Joe Boyd
“It’s given me the ability to give a lot of leeway to people,” says Boyd, who began his term as CTA’s executive director Nov. 1.
“We’re all imperfect, but we’re all trying to work together to make things better.”
A former educator and son and grandson of public school teachers, Boyd has been helping people and groups organize around issues they care about for more than 30 years — 23 of them with CTA. In the early 1990s, he headed United Teachers of Richmond, helping the chapter in the wake of a state-imposed receivership. He went on to work with rural, suburban and urban locals across the state, handling political campaigns, negotiations and other advocacy efforts. In 2008, he started his tenure as the executive director for the Teachers Association of Long Beach, which was just coming out of receivership.
In 2014, Boyd left CTA to establish his own advocacy and organizing firm. In 2016 he became executive director of the California Federation of Teachers, statewide affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers.
Now back “home” at CTA, Boyd is in charge of CTA’s day-to-day operations, including management of 400 employees and oversight of more than 1,000 local affiliates.
Contacting Joe Boyd
California Teachers Association, P.O. Box 921
1705 Murchison Drive
Burlingame, CA 94011-0921
Phone: (650) 552-5329 Fax: (650) 552-5007
jboyd@cta.org | Download bio
