1522 Karla Hernandez Matz of Educated We Stand + News & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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My conversation with Karla begins at 25 minutes
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Karla Hernández-Mats is a widely respected voice for public education who brings a deep understanding of the education system, from inside the classroom to executive leadership. Before dedicating herself to education leadership, she spent over a decade as a classroom teacher, where she earned recognition as Teacher of the Year at Hialeah Middle School in 2010. Her teaching experience grounds her work and fuels her commitment to ensuring every student has the opportunity to succeed.
​Hernández-Mats has served on the Florida Education Association Governance Board and Executive Cabinet, the United Way Board of Miami, the Florida AFL-CIO's executive board, the Children's Trust executive board, and the Education Fund executive board. She also chairs the American Federation of Teachers' (AFT) Women's Rights Committee, where she championed policies that prioritize students' learning environments and well-being.
​From 2016 to 2025, Hernández-Mats served as President of United Teachers of Dade (UTD), the largest teachers' union in the southeastern United States. In 2022, she was selected as the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Florida, reflecting her stature as a leader who could speak to the needs of students, families, and educators statewide.
​Hernández-Mats has been recognized nationally for her leadership, including being honored by Miami Today's Achiever Series in 2019 for advancing public education throughout Miami-Dade County. She has addressed national organizations such as the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, the Miami Women's March, and the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference.
​Born and raised in Miami, Hernández-Mats is a first-generation American of Honduran descent and the first Hispanic officer elected to lead UTD. She holds a bachelor's degree in emotionally handicapped education from Florida International University and a master's degree in business management from St. Thomas University. Her lifelong commitment to students, advocacy, and community service continues to inspire those working for a brighter future. Hernández-Mats is happily married and the mother of two children.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome. Hi, it is Monday and we have got a lot to talk about, obviously, January 26th here at the end of January, a major winter storm. The lakes we haven't seen in a long time here on the East Coast and affecting much of the country. |
| 0:20.0 | And obviously, all the horror that is happening |
| 0:23.0 | in Minneapolis and around the country just because of the Trump regime still in power |
| 0:30.6 | every day dealing with that. I've got a great guest joining me today. My old friend Carla Hernandez |
| 0:36.4 | Metz, who is one of my heroes, very inspiring, former teacher of the year, former huge, huge teachers union leader, one of the largest teachers' unions in the country down in Florida. |
| 0:49.3 | And now she is running a very, very important nonprofit, which is something I really hope folks will consider supporting. |
| 0:59.0 | It's called Educated We Stand. |
| 1:01.5 | An organization founded to fight the whole Moms from Liberty movement that has gained so much ground and is hopefully losing ground as a result of folks like Carla. |
| 1:10.7 | So my conversation with Carla Hernandez-Mets coming up at 20. and is hopefully losing ground as a result of folks like Carla. |
| 1:16.5 | So my conversation with Carla Hernandez-Met's coming up at 25 minutes, but I do have your headlines and clips from the weekend. |
| 1:19.3 | So thank you very much for being here. |
| 1:21.2 | I cannot do the show without you. |
| 1:22.4 | Patreon.com slash Pete Dominic is the place to support it. |
| 1:26.5 | Send me your vitamin N pictures pictures and i hope to see you |
| 1:29.4 | in las Vegas april 9th through 12 podjam three details are common more details but i hope that you |
| 1:36.0 | get your ticket soon to join us it's going to be a really fun time out in Vegas new and improved |
| 1:41.4 | ideas i think you're going to love it. All right. Well, lots to talk about |
| 1:45.3 | today. Obviously, I hope you're doing okay. I hope you get shoveled out if you get buried in snow, as I know many of you did around the country, and I hope you're hanging in there. I'm hanging in there. Mom is doing better every day after her car accident. Dad is hanging in there. I'm headed back up to my parents probably tomorrow |
| 2:01.8 | or the next day. And in the meantime, I'm right here with you and looking forward to connecting |
| 2:07.4 | with you on Discord and anywhere else. Email me anytime stand up with p.g.gmail.com. |
| 2:12.2 | If you haven't heard my conversation with my friend Adam, longtime listener, Adam, who lives in Minneapolis. |
| 2:19.4 | I posted that yesterday. |
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