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Meet Our Emancipators
Meet Our Emancipators
With several decades of experience in education, we combine our experience, transformative leadership, and pursuits of innovation and social justice to facilitate learning and leadership activities for educators at all levels of education.
With several decades of experience in education, we combine our experience, transformative leadership, and pursuits of innovation and social justice to facilitate learning and leadership activities for educators at all levels of education.
Emancipation Conductors
Emancipation Conductors
Antonia Issa Lahera
Antonia Issa Lahera
Transformation Leader
Transformation Leader
Dr. Antonia Issa Lahera has worked in highly innovative settings as the director of leadership programs, leader of a reconstituted and alternative schools. She is the author of numerous book chapters, peer reviewed articles, and books on social justice, transformative leadership, and equity.
Kendall Zoller
Kendall Zoller
Communication Expert
Communication Expert
Dr. Kendall Zoller is an international presenter, authority on communicative intelligence, author and co-author of publications focusing on identifying nonverbal patterns in the learning environment and their influences on thinking, memory, and learning.
Abdul Issa
Abdul Issa
Guru of Calm
Guru of Calm
Abdul Issa has an extensive background in leadership in charter schools. His professional experience spans administration, dean, and special education teacher. Abdul's specialties and passions lie in social justice, equity, school culture, trauma informed practice, leading with your heart, and self care.
H. Orletta Nguyen
H. Orletta Nguyen
Equity Specialist
Equity Specialist
Dr. Orletta Nguyen has an extensive background in K-12 teaching and learning in special education, general education, and school psychology. Her specialities and passions lie in quality instruction, behavior intervention, special education issues, equity, school culture, and mental health.
Station Managers
Station Managers
Anthony Jackson
Anthony Jackson
Director of Community Schools Transformation
Director of Community Schools Transformation
Dr. Anthony Jackson was a founder and co-director of Culture and Language Academy of Success, a renowned Los Angeles charter school committed to educating underserved students using culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy. He leads principals in advancing the responsive transformation of their schools to empower and elevate learning outcomes for African American and Latinx students.
Cynthia Gonzalez
Cynthia Gonzalez
Systems Savant
Systems Savant
Dr. Cynthia Gonzalez is a high school principal who has been in the Los Angeles Unified School District for 17 years. As a former teacher and English Language coordinator, she has a variety of experience with systems and the system's impact on students. Dr. Gonzalez believes that an effective system is a system where all students are thriving. To that end, she works tirelessly to create and implement those systems.
Emily Cooper
Emily Cooper
Technology Genius
Technology Genius
Emily Cooper is a Speech-Language Pathologist and Assistive Technology Specialist who works with students of all ages in the public school setting. Her area of specialty lies in matching student ability with assistive technology supports in order to limit barriers, expand possibilities and encourage independence in academic, vocational and functional settings. Emily has extensive experience in identifying and incorporating technologies that help students work around challenges they face in the areas of communication, reading, writing, math and executive functioning/organization.
Horacio Rodriguez
Horacio Rodriguez
Clinical Social Worker
Clinical Social Worker
Horacio Rodriguez has worked as a clinical social worker in community mental health, non-profit, and school settings. Horacio has experience supporting students and families in crisis, supporting parents with restorative parenting practices, and equipping educators to implement trauma informed and culturally responsive approaches. His passion lies in helping children, youth, families, and communities tap into their innate ability for resiliency.
Mick Rabin
Mick Rabin
Youth Advocate
Youth Advocate
Mick Rabin is a project resource teacher for San Diego Unified School District serving in the department of Youth Advocacy. He has facilitated numerous PDs that explore resourceful ways for infusing accurate and respectful representation through curricular lenses and launches bullying prevention/intervention programming across many schools.
Doron Zinger
Doron Zinger
Director of CalTeach Math/Science BS+Credential program
Director of CalTeach Math/Science BS+Credential program
Dr. Doron Zinger is an educator focused on learning, teaching, and improving teacher preparation and classroom instruction in science, especially in underserved communities where students don't experience science as many other students do.
Oscar Grajeda
Oscar Grajeda
Culturally Responsive Change Agent
Culturally Responsive Change Agent
Oscar Grajeda is a Bilingual School Psychologist working in public schools. He brings expertise in learning, behavior, and mental health to help youth succeed academically, socially, behaviorally, and emotionally. His passions lie in bringing culture and language to the forefront and strengthening connections between home, school, and the community.
Stacey Joy
Stacey Joy
Cultivator of Joy
Cultivator of Joy
Stacey Joy, a National Board Certified Teacher, Google Certified Educator, and 2013 L.A. County Teacher of the Year, teaches 5th grade at Baldwin Hills Pilot and Gifted Magnet School. In addition to teaching in LAUSD over 35 years, she also mentors novice teachers, and is a teacher leader within her school community.
Annamarie Ngo
Annamarie Ngo
Annmarie Ngo is a current fourth year Pre-Service Teacher in UC Irvine's CalTeach Program. In January, she will be student teaching in Huntington Beach UHSD in Southern California. Ngo will graduate from UC Irvine in Spring 2021 with a B.S. in Biology/Education and a single-subject teaching credential in life sciences.
Kathy Becerra
Kathy Becerra
Kathy Becerra is a fourth year Biology/Education major in UC Irvine’s CalTeach Program. She is currently doing fieldwork in Anaheim Union High School District, where she will begin student-teaching in January. Her goal as a future educator is to make science more accessible.
Maria Garcia
Maria Garcia
Bio: Maria Garcia is a current fourth year Earth System Science major and pre-service teacher in UC Irvine& CalTeach Program. Maria has been working towards obtaining a teaching credential and has be student teaching in Santa Ana USD this school year. Maria hopes to build an inclusive, safe, and positive learning environment in all classrooms which has been the focus of the education classes they have taken.
Jessica Coleman
Jessica Coleman
Mental Health Maven
Mental Health Maven
Jessica Coleman has experience working with children from preschool through age 22 in school and hospital settings. Jessica’s passion is trauma informed care and educating staff and families about the impact of trauma on the brain development. She is a school psychologist serving students who are experiencing a medical or psychological crisis.
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