Organizers

Jackie Ryan

Jackie Ryan is currently an Assistant Principal at South High School in the Torrance Unified School District. Her job is to do whatever is best for kids while empowering her teachers to be professional and inspiring. Prior to this gig, Jackie was a Curriculum Coach for secondary English and History teachers as well as a 7th and 8th grade English teacher at Hull Middle School in Torrance, CA. In her spare time, Jackie reads, crochets, dreams of writing and hangs out with her family.

Alex Ross

Alex Ross has been an educator for 24 years (18 of those years in Torrance Unified); he has taught elementary school (4th grade), middle- and high-school English, special education, as well as literature, composition and creative writing courses at Loyola Marymount University. Currently, Alex serves as an Instructional Coach in Literacy. He likes to run, write, read, thrift, and wander.

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