Joshua Steckel

Joshua Steckel is a college counselor at a public school in Brooklyn. He was selected as a thought-leader for the White House’s Reach Higher initiative and is a board member of various organizations dedicated to increasing opportunity in higher education. Steckel co-authored Hold Fast to Dreams: A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty (The New Press) with his wife, Beth Zasloff. Zasloff and Steckel are married and live with their three children in Brooklyn. Their work on college access has been featured in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and on NPR.

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The Hechinger Report

The Hechinger Report talks to Joshua Steckel about his experience as a college counselor at the Secondary School for Research

The New York Times

National K-12 Education reporter Motoko Rich includes Hold Fast to Dreams in a round up of "What We're Reading" at the Times.

Spark Action

Read a Q&A with Josh Steckel and Sponsoring Young People in Spark Action.

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Books by Joshua Steckel

Hold Fast to Dreams
A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty

Beth Zasloff, Joshua Steckel