Leadership
Angela James, Ph.D.
Senior Project Scientist
Jacqueline Rodio, Ed.D.
Senior Director of Operations and Strategic Partnerships
Joseph Bishop, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Lucrecia Santibañez, 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 Candidate & Researcher
Caitlyn McAloon
Digital Communications Coordinator
Cathy Balfe
Doctoral Candidate & Researcher
Deanna Gee
Undergraduate Student Worker, Operations
Deborah Mba
Communications Scholar
Demontea Thompson
Doctoral Candidate & 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
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)
Erika Yagi
Doctoral Candidate & Researcher
Gene McAdoo
Doctoral Candidate & Researcher
Geneva Sum
Communications Director
Grace Bannon
Program Coordinator
Hui Huang
Doctoral Candidate & Researcher
Joshua Chen
Undergraduate Student Worker, Operations
Katherine Mara
Undergraduate Student Researcher, Educator Diversity Project
Maria Luz Espino, Ph.D.
Research Analyst
Menelik Tafari
Doctoral Candidate & Researcher
Michael Corral, Ph.D.
Project Director, Race, Education, and Community Healing (REACH) Network
Nick Cuccia
Copy Editor
Tatev Sarkissyan
Doctoral Candidate & Researcher
Victoria Madu
CTEP Undergraduate Mentor
Yesi Camacho Torres
Doctoral Candidate & 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.
Education Lecturer; Director, Community Schools Initiative
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