Moises Alvarado Garcia

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Hometown: Fontana, California

Current Position: Student Success Coach, UC San Diego

Undergraduate: Cal Poly Pomona, Kinesiology (Exercise Science)

Graduate: Cal State Fullerton, Higher Education

Research Interests: Perceptions of masculinity amongst first-generation Latino college students

Personal Interests: Watching soccer, golf, cycling, traveling, and making my ancestors proud

Jeanene Ames

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Hometown: Temecula, California

Current Position: Associate Professor of English, West Los Angeles College

Undergraduate: CSU San Marcos, Literature & Writing

Graduate: CSU San Marcos, Education

Research Interests: Online Teaching & Learning; Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning

Personal Interests: Restoring salvaged treasures, gardening, bicycling

Carol Battle

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Hometown: San Diego

Current Position: Multiple Subjects Program Manager, High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Undergraduate: UC Santa Barbara, BA in English

Graduate: National University, MA in Teaching

Research Interests: Black educators, teaching & equity

Personal Interests: Reading, writing, walking my dog

Franklin Garrett

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Hometown: San Diego, California

Current Position: Student Success Center Director

Undergraduate: San Diego State University, BA in Sociology

Graduate: San Diego State University, M.Ed. in Multicultural Counseling

Research Interests: Persistence factors of first-generation Black male doctoral students

Personal Interests: Technology, family

Rachael McGlaston Espinoza

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Hometown: Santee, California

Current Position: Program Manager, Lecturer, and Business Owner

Undergraduate: CSUSM – Liberal Studies, double minor in Linguistics and Sociology

Graduate: CSUSM – MA in Sociological Practice

Research Interests: Women, Transformational Leadership, and Organizational Exploitation

Personal Interests: Reading, listening to podcasts and music, cooking, laughing, coming up with new ideas, and spending time with my family (and friends who are like family)

Cristina Magalong

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Hometown: Seoul, Korea

Current Position: Former teacher turned stay-at-home mom entrepreneur

Undergraduate: UC San Diego, Visual Arts Media

Graduate: UC San Diego, Education

Research Interests: Use of technology in elementary classrooms

Personal Interests: Family, reading, podcasts, parenting

Melissa Powless Chacon

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Hometown: Oakland, California

Current Position: Organization Development Consultant/Coach/Evaluator; Teaching Assistant, Tribal and Native Nonprofit Organizations; UC San Diego

Undergraduate: University of San Francisco

Graduate: University of San Francisco

Research Interests: Indigenous women's leadership, coaching and mentoring; Haudenosaunee women, history, and oral stories

Personal Interests: Indigenous peoples' healing; Indigenous women and girls' human rights and justice; Indigenous foods and sovereignty; art and storytelling

Nour Nona

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Hometown: San Diego, California

Current Position: Math Teacher, Sweetwater Union High School District

Undergraduate: San Diego State University, Statistics and Mathematics

Graduate: San Diego State University; Northern Arizona University, Mathematics

Research Interests: Utilizing relationship building in secondary schools

Personal Interests: Football, baseball, grilling, technology

Allie Serrano

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Hometown: San Diego, California

Current Position: Associate Director of Residential Education, CSU San Marcos

Undergraduate: Loyola Marymount University, History and Business

Graduate: University of San Diego, Higher Ed Leadership

Research Interests: Restorative justice, student codes of conduct

Greg Smedley

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Hometown: Brea, California

Current Position: Director of Secondary Education, Oceanside Unified School District

Undergraduate: UCLA, Political Science

Graduate: CSU San Marcos, Masters in Literature

Research Interests: Change Theory, Social Justice, K–12 Leadership

Personal Interests: Surfing, fishing, spending time with my family

David Sosa

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Hometown: Chicago, Illinois

Current Position: Assistant Principal, Vista Unified School District

Undergraduate: Literature & Writing Studies

Graduate: Cal State San Bernardino, English

Research Interests: Leadership, instructional leadership, principal leadership, effective practices of leaders

Personal Interests: Family, reading, exercising, music, and good movies

Kelly Stewart

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Hometown: La Puente (Awiinga), California

Current Position: Graduate Student Researcher, UCSD Indigenous Futures Institute

Undergraduate: Cal Poly Pomona, BA Psychology

Graduate: UCLA, American Indian Studies

Research Interests: California Indian education, Indigenous education, California Indian history, oral histories, storywork, California mission and mission boarding school history, blood memory, Indigenous resilience, California mission system history

Personal Interests: Basket weaving, painting, baking, beadwork, writing, and cats (I'm a fur mom to two cats)