Presenter Bio
Dr. Luz T.Cázares
Luz T. Cázares is a fierce advocate for equity in education and expert in PK12 leadership, finance, and operations. Luz is known for taking complex education and finance-related information and translating it into digestible, meaningful, and actionable components. Most recently, Luz launched Lucid Partnerships, Inc. to eliminate the racial predictability of success in our school systems by supporting educators in transforming good intentions into evidence-based, actionable strategies and real results. Luz has worked at the local and state levels for over twenty years in a range of districts—from the large and diverse Chicago Public Schools to the small and suburban Alameda Unified School District. She deeply understands education policy and program and models her conviction that the role of every school leader is to support effective teaching that impacts learning for EACH student. Luz earned her BA from the University of Chicago and her Master in Public Policy from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. She is a Lecturer for the UC Berkeley Principal Leadership Institute master’s program and the Leaders for Equity and Democracy doctoral program and serves on the National Center for Youth Law advisory committee on school funding inequity.