Travis J. Bristol is an associate professor of teacher education and education policy in Berkeley’s School of Education and (by courtesy) the Department of African American Studies. He is also the faculty director of the Center for Research on Expanding Educational Opportunity. Before joining Berkeley's faculty, he was a Peter Paul Assistant Professor at Boston University. Using qualitative methods, Dr. Bristol explores three...
July Córdoba is a candidate for the Masters In Educational Leadership at the Principal Leadership Institute.
July brings over 15 years of experience in the field of education. She has worked in several capacities and in multiple school districts in her native Colombia, the Bay Area, and Indianapolis. July has been an AmeriCorps member, a founding teacher, a leader in the nonprofit sector, and most currently a school leader. Her work is inspired by her own educational experiences as an immigrant, and an English Language Learner: she has been involved in multiple initiatives related...
Griffin has been an educator in Oakland middle schools since 2017. He is a math teacher, and has served in various roles including grade level chair, instructional coach, curriculum consultant, and instructional leadership team subcommittee lead. Additionally, Griffin has led school team’s in the Agency by Design Oakland fellowship, and co-authored a Middle School Data Science Curriculum in partnership with OUSD and WestEd. Griffin’s areas of interest include school design for student agency and inclusion, MTSS implementation, curriculum design, and instructional coaching. Griffin has a BA...
Kesha Jenkins, M.Ed., is a graduate student in the Principal Leadership Institute (PLI) program. She has worked in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Oakland Unified School District, and Berkeley Unified School District in various positions. She received her Master of Education and California Multiple Subject Credential from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to that, Kesha received her Bachelor of Arts in Child Development with an emphasis in elementary subject matter and a minor in Psychology, and upper-division theme in race, diversity, and justice from...
Shartresa is currently the Literacy TSA and AVID site coordinator at United for Success Academy. Ms. Nixon also facilitates the second Wednesday professional development for middle school reading intervention teachers in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD). She is an OUSD 2022–23 Teacher of the Year, and co-founder and advisor for the Black Student Union, in which all students — Black and non-Black students of all grade levels — can learn about and celebrate the accomplishments of African-Americans.
Keldon Clegg is a Master's degree candidate in the 23rd cohort of the Principal Leadership Institute program at UC Berkeley's School of Education. His academic interests in education include digital privacy, media literacy, and community engagement.
Keldon currently serves as a leader at Berkeley High School working as the Co-Coordinator of Professional Development, an EdTech Teacher on Special Assignment, and humanities teacher. Over his 12 years at BHS, he has also served as the International Baccalaureate Coordinator, WASC Coordinator, and Secondary Constructing Meaning Trainer...
Lizzy (she/they) has worked with schools, arts organizations, hospitals and camps to implement healing centered, arts-integrated pedagogy and curriculum. She moved to California in 2020 and currently works as a Literacy Specialist and Instructional Coach for Seneca's five Therapeutic Day schools in the Bay Area.
Lizzy creates curricula and trains teaching artists for Chicago-based, city-wide arts project, Once Upon Our Time Capsule, which works with the Chicago Public Libraries to guide 8,000 students through their journeys each year and toward imagining a more beautiful and radical...
Tamar is a Peer Resources Teacher and Program Coordinator at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academic Middle School in the Portola neighborhood in San Francisco. She is working toward her Administrative Credential through Berkeley's Principal Leadership Institute in the hopes of becoming a school leader. She grew up in San Francisco where she currently lives with her partner and their two young children. Her passions include youth agency, belonging, and community change-making toward a more just world.
