J-Villains (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781796068894)

Y. Kerry Sara attended Buffalo Public School #6 in New York State from 1975 until 1984. In 1977 School #6 became one of the first magnet schools (renamed Academic Challenge Center, now called the Buffalo Elementary School of Technology). He was enrolled at McKinley Vocational High School from 1984 through 1988. Mr. Sara is a war-time military veteran, having served in the New York Army National Guard as a communications operator and military police officer during the Desert Shield/Desert Storm conflict in 1990 and 1991. Mr. Sara worked as an Administrative Assistant at the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), an office clerk/secretary at the Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo and an office clerk at Neighborhood Legal Services. He received his paralegal certificate in 1997. Through great struggle Y. Kerry Sara earned his B.A. from the University @ Buffalo (UB) in 2004. He had to earn his diploma while he was homeless and on the streets during his senior year at UB. His extraordinary belief in the value of education pushed him to persevere through the tough times to finally finish college. That experience and his knowledge of the deleterious effects of extreme poverty informs his faith in the power of a high quality American public education system.