Graduate Student

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...

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...

Hetvi Desai

Hetvi Desai is a doctoral student in School Psychology. Having immigrated to the U.S. from India as a child, Hetvi's personal experience has informed her research interests. She focuses on adjustment and acculturation in school systems, specifically examining how cultural identities impact immigrant children’s experiences. Her research also explores the impact of intersecting marginalized identities on children’s educational outcomes, as well as how cultural identity can act as a risk or protective factor for behavioral and learning challenges. Hetvi holds a B.S. in Psychological Sciences...

Ken Singer

Ken Singer is a grad student in the Learning Sciences. A stubborn and rebellious child of educators and entrepreneurs, he started his career as a tech entrepreneur and then transitioned into higher ed, proving once again that despite all efforts, some of us become our parents. Ken has spent his teaching career trying to reach innovators and risk-takers, finding that many resist or reject traditional forms of instruction. As a result, he co-created new pedagogies to help non-traditional learners, across cultures, access entrepreneurial knowledge and develop entrepreneurial mindsets and...

Irma Muñoz Daniels

Irma Muñoz Daniels (she/her/ella) is a doctoral student in Cohort 2 of the Leaders in Equity and Democracy program. Irma’s research interests include school leadership, student success, and school leader resilience in alternative school settings.

After earning an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Davis, and a master’s degree and teaching credential from Stanford University, Irma began her career in 1996 as a Spanish teacher. After earning a second master’s degree and administrative credential from the Principal Leadership Institute at the University of...