Graduate Student

rocky chiasson

rocky chiasson is a Master’s student in the Principal Leadership Institute (PLI) at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. She has 19 years of experience as an educator in the California public school system. Rocky holds a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology, a Master's Degree in Social Work, and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW).

rocky has worked in social services for most of her professional career, in the fields of developmental disabilities, addiction treatment, and education. rocky found a love for education while completing her graduate school internship at El Cerrito High...

Chelsea Card

Chelsea Card has worked in the California public school system for fifteen years. She is entering her twelfth year as a classroom educator in the San Francisco Bay Area holding foundational single subject credentials in both math and science, as well as a multiple subject credential earned from Concordia University, Irvine. She currently serves as a middle school math teacher in Woodside, California.

Chelsea is working towards her Master’s Degree as a member of the 24th cohort of the Principal Leadership Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. As an educator, Chelsea...

Qing Cai

Qing Cai is a doctoral student in the Social Research Methodology cluster at Berkeley School of Education. As a passionate researcher and reading advocate, her work focuses on bi-literacy, measurement and assessment of reading.

Qing’s research focuses on the challenges in reading comprehension, with a specific emphasis on decoding skills. She is interested in leveraging a range of methodologies, including Item Response Theory (IRT), Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMM), Bayesian Knowledge Tracing (BKT), and machine learning techniques, to understand how children develop decoding...

Zoe Silverman

Zoe Silverman is a doctoral candidate in Learning Sciences & Human Development at UC Berkeley. Her research engages video-based interaction analyses of talk, gaze, gesture, touch, space, and movement during facilitated education programs to illuminate how participants — both human and non-human — collaborate to do hands-on learning with objects in museums.

Zoe worked for more than a decade as an education specialist and program coordinator at a variety of arts and cultural institutions in Boston and Los Angeles. In previous lives, she was a high school social studies teacher and...

Alexis Meza

As a UC Chancellors Fellow, Alexis Meza is a Ph.D. Student in Education in the Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender at the Berkeley School of Education. He received his Bachelor's Degree from UC Riverside in Psychology and Education and a Master's from New York University (NYU) in Higher Education and Student Affairs. Under the tutelage of Dra. Gina Ann Garcia, he serves as the Graduate Student Researcher for the Higher Education Action Research for Transformation Lab. He also serves as the CASA Magdalena Mora Graduate Student Fellow for the Latinx Student Resource Center (LSRC),...

Francis Estabillo

Francis is a graduate student in the Principal Leadership Institute at UC Berkeley School of Education. His academic interests include critical pedagogy, equity-focused learning and instruction, and educational leadership for social justice.

Francis earned his Bachelor’s degree in Secondary Education, majoring in mathematics, from the University of Pangasinan, in the Philippines. He then pursued a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction, with an emphasis on mathematics education, from the University of Texas at Arlington. Currently, he is working on his dissertation at the...

Golzar Ejadi

Golzar Ejadi (she/her) is a first-year doctoral student in the School Psychology Program at UC Berkeley's School of Education (BSE).

Before joining BSE, Golzar earned her Master of Science in Psychology with a concentration in Clinical Psychology at San Francisco State University. There, she explored diverse research interests and gained clinical experience as a mental health intern. Prior to her master’s program, Golzar graduated with a double major in Biology and Psychology from the University of British Columbia (UBC). She also contributed to various research labs in Canada and...

Ella M. Crawford

Ella M. Crawford is a doctoral student in the Policy, Politics, and Leadership cluster at the Berkeley School of Education. She studies instances of organizational change in higher education through policy interventions. During her Phd, Ella is studying a case of technology implementation and how it brings about structural change.

Currently, Ella’s research examines the use of AI in educational administration tools, with a focus on how socio-technical policies around AI are developed and implemented. Her work explores the sociocultural dimensions of AI systems to understand how...

Jill Yochim

Jill Yochim (she/her) is a student in the Joint Doctoral Program in Special Education. Her research involves teachers' knowledge of reading, their merging of reading and culturally responsive practices, and the impacts of state dyslexia legislation. Jill’s research interests have been influenced by her years of teaching students with reading difficulties as well as her work providing teachers with professional development in reading instruction. Her research is further inspired by teaching Masters students in the Berkeley Teacher Education Program and the Graduate College of Education at...

Carlos Rivera Bernabé

Carlos Rivera Bernabé (he/him) is a doctoral student in the School Psychology Program at the University of California, Berkeley, under advisement of Dr. Frank C. Worrell.

Prior to Berkeley, he received his bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Southern California with a Minor in Education and Society. While at USC, he worked as a research assistant at the Center for Education, Identity, and Social Justice, contributing extensively to empower low-income middle school and college students of color in STEM through culturally responsive mentorship.

His primary...