Ninfa Segarra (born June 4, 1950) is an American lawyer who was the last President of the New York City Board of Education, serving from 2000[1] to 2002 when the Board was abolished by the State of New York and power of the city schools was transferred to Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Ninfa Segarra was born on June 4, 1950, to working-class Puerto Rican parents and grew up in the LaGuardia Houses on the Lower East Side.
[1][2] On the Board, Segarra became a voice for conservative social values, most notably her role in ousting Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez.
She opposed the Children of the Rainbow First Grade Curriculum that Fernandez supported because she claimed it allowed teaching explicit descriptions of sex.
Segarra stepped down as deputy mayor in 2000 to assume a position at the City University of New York (CUNY) as vice president for intercampus collaboration.
[5][1] She became the executive director of the New York City Police Museum in 2002 after being unable to provide her work schedules at CUNY in response to a request filed by the faculty union.