Moises Alvarado Garcia

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

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

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

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 1st Generation Black Male Doctoral Students

Personal Interests: Technology, Family

Rachael McGlaston Espinoza

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 hanging out with my family (and friends that are like family)

Cristina Magalong

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

Hometown: Oakland, California

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

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 people's healing; Indigenous women and girls human rights and justice; Indigenous foods, sovereignty; art and storytelling.

Nour Nona

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 Mathematics, NAU

Research Interests: Utilizing relationship building in secondary schools

Personal Interests: Football, baseball, grilling, technology

Allie Serrano

Hometown: San Diego, Calfornia

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

Hometown: Brea, California

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

Undergraduate: UC Los Angeles, Politcal Science

Graduate: CSU San Marcos, Masters in Literature

Research Interests: Change Theory, Social Justice, K12 Leadership

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

David Sosa

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

Hometown: La Puente (Awiinga), California

Current Position: Graduate Student Researcher, UCSD Indigenous Futures Institute

Undergraduate: Cal Poly Pomona, BA Psychology

Graduate: UC Los Angeles, 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)