Denise Martinchek

2025 Yale & Slavery Teachers Institute Cohort Member

I work as a history teacher at New Britain High School. We are a diverse community rooted in a deep history of immigration. It was here in this city that my great grandparents got their start as immigrants here in the United States. As an educator with a passion for opening up the minds and hearts of my students to the love of learning and exploration of cross cultural studies, I teach history not with the theme of oppression but instead opt to showcase resistance, and how different groups of people throughout time have stood up to their governments or unjust institutions.