Educational systems, from early childhood through university, have been complicit in producing widely inequitable outcomes with far-reaching implications for American democracy. With the stakes now higher than ever, it takes a particular person to serve in the senior-most roles of such systems, and a very special individual indeed to do so with an unflinching focus on transformation for liberation.
It is for leaders like these that UC Berkeley’s Leaders for Equity and Democracy (LEAD) EdD program was designed. LEAD seeks out bold and courageous leaders with a proven track record of transformational change. Once students are identified, the program and their faculty advisors commit to supporting them through each milestone of their doctoral journeys so that they can complete their dissertations and graduate in three years’ time.