Jovel Queirolo

Jovel Queirolo joined LPS Oakland R&D in 2016. They taught biology and journalism at Madison Park Business and Art Academy (MPA) during the 2015–2016 school year. While at MPA, Queirolo served as the School Site Health Education Leader and implemented the school’s first Health Careers Academy in conjunction with Samuel Merritt University and the University of California, Berkeley–University of California, San Francisco Joint Medical Program. Prior to beginning their career as a teacher in Oakland, Queirolo taught biology and human biology at Woodside High School (Woodside, California).

Outside of the classroom, Queirolo has written formative assessments for Newsela, an online reading comprehension tool. They spent three years working as a Research Assistant for the Gordon Lab at Stanford University. While in this position, Queirolo published two academic research papers on ant foraging behavior.