Affiliations

Boards

• Board President, United Playaz, San Francisco, CA (2011-present)
• Board Member, Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning with the National Council of Teachers of English (2016-present)
• Board Member, The People’s Think Tank
• Board Member, Urban Education Justice Project (formerly, The Urban Education and Teacher Unionism Policy Project) (2016-present)
• Board Member, Kingmakers of Oakland (2018-present)

Grants

• Principal Investigator (with Co-PI, Christopher Thaiss). $1,000,000. California Postsecondary Education Commission Improving Teacher Quality grant. A culturally responsive professional development and research program for middle and high school teachers in a high-poverty district.
• Principal Investigator. $100,000. AT&T Foundation. Awarded for community-engagement research on school-university partnerships.
• Principal Investigator. $250,000. City of Sacramento Office of Violence Prevention. Focuses on the intersection of arts, academics, and activism to support high school student engagement in educational achievement.
• Principal Investigator. $50,000. Federal housing grant to implement and examine drop-out prevention strategies.

Professional Memberships

• Urban Research-Based Action Network (URBAN)
• Imagining America: Scholars and Artists in Public Life
• American Educational Research Association (AERA)
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• National Writing Project
• Teachers for Social Justice
• Education for Liberational National Network
• The People’s Think Tank