Doctor of Education (Ed. D.), International and Multicultural Education, Racial Justice Concentration

University of San Francisco             Anticipated December 2025 

Doctoral Level Courses: Social/Critical Theoretical Foundations, Public Scholarship & Community Engaged Learning, Applied Education Statistics, Qualitative Research, African American Education, Latino/as in Education, Whiteness Power & Privilege, Decolonial Feminist Theory Praxis, Black Diaspora, Critical Analysis of Urban Schooling, Critical Race Theory and Praxis, Human Rights Education: History, Philosophy, & Current Debate, Social Movements, Dissertation Proposal, Dissertation Development, Dissertation Research & Writing 

Leadership: Rise for Racial Justice Facilitator Intern for racial literacy education classes online (Teachers College Press, 2022)

Relevant Full-Time Work Experience: 

Compass Realtor® DRE # 02217269, my small business aimed at closing the racial homeownership gap informed by history, data, and community need, Bridge Association Housing Committee leadership promoting fair housing, equitable pathways, and holistic approaches  

Oakland Unified School District School Culture Case Manager, served a 6-12th grade school in East Oakland, trained 100+ staff members in restorative justice, designed and implemented humanizing middle and high school Leadership classes focused on school-to-prison pipeline/nexus, social movements, and created opportunities for critical student engagement, managed tiered systems of support for school-wide anti-racist curriculum, led school culture alignment across grade level, academic, and division (6th-7th, 8th-9th, and 10th-12th) teams, hired and trained new student support staff in case management, restorative practices, policies, and procedures, and resolved hundreds of student conflicts with the student support team, maintained healthy relationships with students and families in East Oakland, CA, focused on community development, and developed/maintained a network of district members, families, and community partnerships to best support students' well-being and collaboratively plan school-wide multicultural events, fostering community love and joy. 

Master of Science (M.Sc.), Social Anthropology     Awarded 2019 

London School of Economics and Political Science 

Graduate Level Courses: The Anthropology of Kinship, Sex and Gender, Anthropology: Theory and Ethnography, Anthropology of Economy (1): Production and Exchange, Anthropology of Economy (2): Transformation and Globalisation, Dissertation (~ Master’s Thesis)  

Research Experience: Dissertation (~ Master’s Thesis) entitled “Complexities of Time: Identity, Dispossession, Performance,” which explores the history of time and uses an intersectionality lens to argue that navigating different embedded global capitalist projects creates our individual and uniquely unequal timespaces. 

Leadership: Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Lead Trainer for “Consent and Hate Crime Workshops,” a University campaign  

Student-Engaged Learning: Women of Color Lacuna Writers publication and performance, Decolonising Anthropology Graduate 

Student-Led Reading Group reading Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Care Work reading group with David Graeber 

Master of Arts (M.A.), Counseling Psychology     Awarded  2018

University of San Francisco 

Graduate Level Courses: Counseling Theory & Practice, Lifespan Counseling, Law and Ethics, Fieldwork Practicum, Cross-Cultural Counseling, Group Counseling Skills, Pupil Personal Services Traineeship I, Prevention and Intervention in Schools, Advanced Multicultural Counseling, Individual & Family Psychopathology, Academic Counseling, Problem-Solving Counseling, Pupil Personal Services: Traineeship II, Human Sexuality, Research Methods, Addictions Counseling, Alcohol & Substance Abuse, Child, Elder & Adult Abuse, Career Counseling, Pupul Personal Services Traineeship III, Trauma and Crisis Counseling, Assessment Counselor, Consult: Parent Teacher & School 

Counseling Traineeship Experience: 

Year 1, Berkeley Unified School District: Willard Middle School

Year 2 Oakland Unified School District: Oakland Technical High School 

Research Experience:

“Making it Happen,” an access to education research project led by the chair of the department over a 5-year period 

“Black Lives Matter Research Poster” Presentation at the School of Education & California Association of School Counselor Conferences 

“Combating Internatized Racism and Sexism for Chicana Latinas” presentation at the School of Education Conference 

Undergraduate Women of Color Conference Workshop Facilitator 

Celebrate USF Alumni Presentation 

Leadership: Graduate Student Assistant for the Counseling Psychology Department

Awards: H.B. McDaniel Foundation Research Award given at Stanford University (1 awarded throughout California), supported a critical Young Women of Color Counseling Group Praxis with Black and Latinx students at Oakland Technical High School 

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Ethnic Studies     Awarded 2015

University of California, Berkeley 

Berkeley City College & UC Berkeley Concurrent Enrollment Courses: Intro to Chicano Culture, History of Race West 

Undergraduate Level Courses: Ethnic Studies Theories and Concepts, Ethnic Studies Social Science Methods, Ethnic Studies Humanities Methods, Ethnic Studies, Ethnicity & Race in American Film, African American Studies, Africa: History & Culture, Ethnic Studies Summer Abroad (Mexico City taught by Carlos Muñoz Jr.), Chicano Studies, Chicano and Latin American Literature, Special Topics in Chicano Studies, Advanced Seminar in Ethnic Studies (taught by Victoria Robinson), Social Welfare Field Study 

University of California Education Abroad Program at the University of Ghana: Ghana Social & Culture, African American Theater, Black Diaspora History, African Indigenous Religion, Research Methods, EAP Special Research Study: African Studies  

Student-Engaged Learning:  Stiles Hall Experience, Berkeley Transfer Student, GED Program, San Quentin Prison