Matthew Yellin, Ed.M., is an Assistant Principal and Social Studies teacher at Hillside Arts and Letters Academy, located in Jamaica, Queens, where he has worked since the school was founded in 2010. He is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Graduate School of Education. Matthew lives in Astoria, Queens, with his wife Sarah and son Jonah.

Matthew Yellin, Ed.M.
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