Leadership
Angela James, Ph.D.
Research Director
Jacqueline Rodio, Ed.D.
Director of Business Administration
Joseph Bishop, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Lucrecia Santibanez, Ph.D.
Co-Faculty Director; Professor of Education, UCLA School of Education and Information Studies
Tyrone C. Howard, Ph.D.
Co-Faculty Director; Professor of Education, UCLA School of Education and Information Studies
Staff
Aleida Arreaga
Financial Analyst
Andrés E. Fernández-Vergara
Doctoral Researcher
Caitlyn McAloon
Digital Communications Coordinator
Cathy Balfe
Graduate Student Researcher
Demontea Thompson
Doctoral Researcher
Brian Huff, Ph.D.
Project Director, Community Schools & Foster Youth
Kai Mathews, Ph.D.
Project Director, California Educator Diversity Project
Kenyon Lee Whitman, Ph.D.
Faculty Affiliate
Kirk D. Rogers Jr., Ph.D.
Research Analyst
Mayra Cazares-Minero, Ph.D.
Research Analyst
Pedro A. Noguera, Ph.D.
Founder
Stanley L. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D.
Project Director, Computational Thinking Equity Project (CTEP)
Emily Silva
Communications Scholar
Erika Yagi
Doctoral Researcher
Gene McAdoo
Doctoral Researcher
Geneva Sum
Communications Director
Hui Huang
Doctoral Researcher
Maria Luz Espino, Ph.D.
Research Analyst
Nick Cuccia
Copy Editor
Tatev Sarkissyan
Doctoral Researcher
Yesi Camacho Torres
Doctoral Researcher
CTS Faculty Advisory Board
Annamarie Francois, Ed.D.
Associate Dean of Public Engagement
Audra Langley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, Ph.D.
Chair Department of Education; Professor
Christine Shen, Ed.D.
Director of UCLA’s Community Schools; Professor of Education, UCLA School of Education and Information Studies
Daniel G. Solorzano, Ph.D.
Professor of Social Science and Comparative Education;
Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies;
Director of the Center for Critical Race Studies in Education;
University of California, Los Angeles
Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies;
Director of the Center for Critical Race Studies in Education;
University of California, Los Angeles
Ron Avi Astor, Ph.D.
Professor of Social Welfare, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs