Our Team
Meet our Teachers
Meet our Teachers
Stephanie Berry
Stephanie Berry
2020 Teacher Resident
2020 Teacher Resident
Stephanie worked in the Residential Care Profession, for over 25yrs, working with Adults with special needs. In 2012, she decided to go back to school and she attended Merritt Community College graduating with four AA degrees before transferring to San Francisco State University where she majored in African American History and minored in Criminal Justice. In 2019, Stephanie was hired at OUSD as an Instruction Support Specialist working in a special education classroom with 4th and 5th grade students, as well as working in general education with children in the same age range. Stephanie has a strong passion for equity and social justice in education and she is excited to be a resident teacher for OUSD.
Lorna Rayos
Lorna Rayos
2020 Teacher Resident
2020 Teacher Resident
Lorna (Ms. Rayos) was born in San Francisco and grew up in Sonoma County, where she informally taught piano, dance, and fitness classes. She is looking forward to becoming a formal teacher in the education system and serving the Oakland SPED community with love and fun. Her parents immigrated from the Philippines to San Francisco in 1972. The Filipino culture taught her to be selfless and of service to others. This is the goal of Ms. Rayos with her students and their families.
Precious Listana
Precious Listana
2020 Teacher Resident
Precious was born in the Philippines and grew up in San Francisco. She studied Cognitive Science in college, and worked at companies including Make School, Kapor Center, and Twitter. Currently, she's an Oakland Teacher Resident at Oakland Tech, co-teaching a high school Algebra 2 class. Precious is pursuing her Master's in Education and Teaching Credential in UC Berkeley to become a high school Computer Science teacher. Her goal is to make Computer Science education equitable and accessible for underrepresented communities. In her free time, she enjoys learning full-stack web development to create aesthetic and intuitive websites, going for runs & hikes, cooking, reading and spending quality time with friends and family. 2020 Teacher Resident
Malik Stead
Malik Stead
2020 Teacher Resident
2020 Teacher Resident
Malik is originally from Chicago, IL and moved to the Bay Area in 2005. After getting an Environmental Studies/Economics Combined B.A. from UC Santa Cruz, he started working in the field of natural resource management. However, he decided that teaching was always his true passion, and decided that teaching Environmental Science would be the best career path to pursue. As of right now, he is a student teacher in a 7th grade classroom at Roosevelt Middle School. In his free time, he enjoys hiking (with his dog Sweetie, pictured), camping, yoga and video games.
Helen Day
Helen Day
2020 Teacher Resident
Helen was born and raised in Thailand. Her mother is from Thailand and her father is from Oakland, CA. She moved from Thailand to Oakland during her high school years. Growing up, she did not always get along with math. In fact, she failed every single math test and quiz in middle school, and had never received an A in math until she had a great math teacher in Oakland. Her new math teacher was very patient and willing to do whatever she could to help her understand difficult math concepts. Her experience with math throughout middle and high school helped her realize that if she can do it, anybody can do it. She received two bachelor degrees from San Francisco State University—one in Math for Teaching, one in Chinese Language. She is multilingual and excited to be able to use both her linguistic and math knowledge to serve the community. She is now pursuing her Teaching Credential in Single-Subject Math at San Francisco State University. This is her first year working for OUSD and she is currently co-teaching 6th and 7th grade math at West Oakland Middle School. In her free time, she likes to cook spicy Thai food.2020 Teacher Resident
Michael Obah
Michael Obah
2020 Teacher Resident
2020 Teacher Resident
Michael was born in Ghana, West Africa and migrated to the United States in 2001. He has lived in the Bay Area for over seventeen years and graduated from Golden Gate University, with a degree in Accounting. He taught chemistry in high school in Ghana for five years and worked in San Francisco running summer camps and coaching kids’ soccer for over ten years. He has been an 8th Grade mathematics and science teacher as well as an Instructional Assistant at Frick Impact Academy in Oakland for the past year. Currently he is doing his student teaching at Roosevelt Middle School. Michael has always loved teaching and currently has had a renewed passion to become a teacher in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) because he strongly believes that every school in the Oakland Unified School District and beyond deserves compassionate, equitable, and well-trained teachers, particularly in STEM.
Josie Trujilo
Josie Trujilo
2020 Teacher Resident
Josephine, or Josie, Trujillo is currently student teaching 6th and 7th graders at Coliseum College Preparatory Academy. She is working on a Single Subject Credential in Biology with CSU East Bay. Prior to student teaching, Josie was a naturalist at Camp Arroyo in Livermore where she worked with 4th-6th graders. She taught Ecology to students while hiking and adventuring around the oak woodlands of the area. Josie graduated from Humboldt State University, with a degree in Environmental Education, in 2016. She has always had a passion for getting messy and learning outdoors, growing up camping with her family. Josie loves teaching because it means she continues to learn, sometimes with students and sometimes students teach her. Josie looks forward to working with the bright students of the Oakland community for the next year and hopefully for many more!2020 Teacher Resident
Emily Blumenthal
Emily Blumenthal
2020 Teacher Resident
2020 Teacher Resident
Emily was born in Long Beach, California and moved to the Bay Area in 2016 to study math at UC Berkeley. She’s currently an Oakland Teacher Resident co-teaching an Algebra 1 class at Oakland Tech. Emily is also studying at UC Berkeley’s BE3 program, pursuing her Masters degree and teaching credential. She hopes to create engaging and exciting math classrooms that focus on the power of math to dismantle societal injustices. Outside of the classroom, she enjoys cooking and baking with her friends and family.
Halle Youngblood
Halle Youngblood
2020 Teacher Resident
Halle (preferred pronouns: She, Her, Hers) is a Teacher Resident and a 3rd-5th grade Inclusion Teacher at Emerson Elementary. She is attending CSU East Bay earning a Credential and Master's degree in Special Education (Mild to Moderate). Halle started working in education at Mount Diablo School District in 2017 as a substitute teacher where she had the opportunity to experience different classrooms and grade levels. She discovered that she enjoyed teaching students in small groups, and enjoyed teaching phonics and reading lessons. Halle started working within OUSD in 2018 as a STIP at Lincoln Elementary School and she had the opportunity to teach 1st grade students and work beside 1st grade educators. She very much enjoyed her time at Lincoln Elementary and decided to finally jumpstart a career as a certified teacher. Halle is an Oakland native, she enjoys long bike rides along Lake Merritt, and she loves spending quality time with her dog Ginger. She is so happy to be a part of this year's Teacher Resident Program!2020 Teacher Resident
Brihana Hanible
Brihana Hanible
2020 Teacher Resident
2020 Teacher Resident
Brihana Hanible is an Oakland Teacher Resident, teaching Mathematics to 7th and 8th Graders at West Oakland Middle School. Before transitioning to OUSD she worked in the tech and transportation industry, working operations for big companies like Uber Inc, Amazon Inc, and UPS. Brihana attended UC Davis where she obtained her Bachelors of Science in Mathematical Analytics and Operations Research. She also attended Chabot College where she obtained her Associates of Science in Mathematics and worked as a student assistant and facilitator. As a facilitator, she taught Trigonometry and Pre-Calculus. Brihana also worked for Civicorps Schools and for Healthy Youth. Brihana has experience in healthcare and has worked as a Teacher's Assistant with pre-school and elementary school students.
Kaili Carr
Kaili Carr
2020 Teacher Resident
Kaili was born in Santa Rosa, CA and has been an East Bay resident since she transferred to UC Berkeley to complete a Bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry. After pursuing scientific research in undergrad and spending a few years working in a lab at UCSF, she decided it was time to pursue her teaching credential so she could become a full time educator. Currently, she is an Oakland Teacher Resident, partnered with Oakland Technical High School, and co-teaches ninth grade biology. During this time, she is also completing Master’s of Education coursework in UC Berkeley’s BE3 program. Kaili is committed to equity based teaching and strives to create relevant content for all learners in her biology classroom.2020 Teacher Resident
Ivan Lima-Bravo
Ivan Lima-Bravo
2020 Teacher Resident
2020 Teacher Resident
Ivan was born and raised in Manassas, Virginia. From an early age, his Mexican parents emphasized the importance of an education to him. Because of their consejos, he obtained a B.S. in Engineering Sciences (Mechanical) from Yale University and is currently pursuing an M.A. in Education from UC Berkeley’s BE3 program, in the hopes of becoming a middle school mathematics teacher in Oakland. Ivan is presently a teacher resident at Oakland High, co-teaching Pre-Calculus and AVID courses. While working with OUSD, Ivan has a clear goal: to learn as much as he can about the community, students, and city, to ensure his teaching practices meet the needs of all of his students.
Merin Mathew
Merin Mathew
2020 Teacher Resident
Merin is a Teacher Resident at Chabot Elementary. Although originally from Queens, New York, she now calls California her home. She has worked as a para educator before making the leap into getting her credential as a Special Education teacher. In her past life she has worked in television, built websites and made crepes for a living. She lives in East Oakland with her husband, son and many pets2020 Teacher Resident
Katelin Schroeder
Katelin Schroeder
2020 Teacher Resident
2020 Teacher Resident
Katie grew up in San Rafael and has lived in the Bay Area for most of her life. She studied Civil Engineering at Cal Poly SLO and worked in construction and workplace planning for Uber and Google. She made a career change to teaching to impact equitable access to STEM education for underrepresented communities. She's currently an Oakland Teacher Resident and pursuing her Master's in Education and teaching credential at UC Berkeley to become a high school math teacher. In her free time, she enjoys walking her dog, cooking with roommates, backpacking, spending time with family, reading, and watching shows. Katie is excited to work with the bright Oakland student community!
Aviv Boss
Aviv Boss
2020 Teacher Resident
Bio coming soon!2020 Teacher Resident
2020 Teacher Residents are 1st year teachers.
Sarah Mings
Sarah Mings
2020 Teacher Resident
2020 Teacher Resident
Sarah is from a small town in Tehachapi, California. She had a passion for science and engineering because her father, uncle, and grandfather were all engineers. She worked her way through community college paying her tuition. She transferred to Cal State East Bay where she found an amazing year-long internship at Lawrence Livermore National Labs. Busy with school, work, and her internship she found her true passion in the IEEE club on campus. Spending all her free time, creating technical workshops, coordinating with tech speakers, and organizing field trips to companies she realized she had a passion for helping her fellow students succeed and find a passion for STEM. After deciding to make the switch from engineering to teacher Sarah is now an Oakland Teacher Resident at Skyline High School co-teaching Algebra 1 class. She has big plans for creating programs that help students get interested in STEM and help girls and POC succeed in STEM classes. In her free time, she still volunteers for IEEE, watching scary movies with her friends, and exploring the bay.