Candidate for
Governing Board Member; South Pasadena Unified School District

ORGANIZATIONS

• Los Angeles County Democratic Party (LACDP)
  
• South Pasadena Teachers Association (TASP)
  
• National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) of Greater Pasadena
  
• The Network for Public Education (NPE)
  
• United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA)

Education & Community Leaders:

• Gretchen Robinette- Retired SPHS Teacher & Librarian; Woman of the Year (2012) 29th Congressional District.
  
• James "Jim" Aprato- Mathematics Teacher at South Pasadena High School for 39 years (retired).
  
• Carol Evans- SPHS Retired Teacher.
  
• Laura Sharpe- Parent, Teacher, Small Business Owner and South Pasadena Resident.
  
• Heather Hinton- South Pasadena resident, Senior Citizens advocate and Access advocate.
  
• Dr. Flora Abrahamian- Physician at Huntington Medical Foundation.

• Victor Robinette- Former South Pasadena City Treasurer.
  
• Monica Ratliff- School Board Member, LAUSD.
  
• Liz Vazquez- School Board Member, National School District.

• Dr. Stephen Krashen- Professor Emeritus at the University of Southern California (USC), world renowned educator contributing to the fields of second-language acquisition, bilingual education, and reading.
  
• Dr. Ernest Morrell-Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA & Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.
  
• Dr. Denise Pacheco- Director of the Writing Success Program at UCLA.
  
• Dr. Benji Cheng- UCLA & Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.
  
• Dr. Arpi Mardirossian- Professor of Mathematics at University of Southern California (USC).
  
• Dr. La Mont Terry- Professor of Mathematics Education at Occidental College.
  
• Dr. Tracy Buenavista- Associate Professor of Education and Asian American Studies, California State University, Northridge.
  
• Dr. Dimpal Jain- Assistant Professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at California State University, Northridge.
  
• Dr. Shirin Vossoughi- Post Doctoral Fellow at San Francisco Exploratorium and Stanford University School of Education.
  
• Dr. Tina Trujillo-Assistant Professor of Education at University of California, Berkeley.
  
• Dr. Zitlali Morales- Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).
  
• Dr. Daniel Liou- Assistant Professor of Education at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University.
  
• Dr. Lauren Anderson- Assistant Professor of Education at Connecticut College.
  
• Dr. Arshad Ali- John Adams Research Fellow, Institute of Education, University of London, UK.
  
• Dr. Dolores Calderon- Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Utah.
  
• Dr. Melanie Bertrand- Assistant Professor of Education at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University.
  
• Dr. Cueponcaxochitl Dianna Moreno Sandoval- Post Doctoral Scholar in Education at Arizona State University.
  
• Dr. Mouna Mana- Language Education Specialist at the National Foreign Language Center, University of Maryland.
  
• Dr. Tyson Marsh- Assistant Professor of Education at the University of New Mexico.
  
• Dr. Cheryl E. Matias- Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at University of Colorado Denver.
  
• Dr. Stan Johnson- Founding Principal at 100 Black Men of the Bay Area Community School in Oakland California.
  
• Dr. Rosa Jimenez- Assistant Professor of Education at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University.
  
• Dr. Adai Tefera- Educational Research Specialist at Arizona State University.
  
• Dr. Danny Martinez- Assistant Professor of Adolescent Literacy at UC Davis.
  
• Dr. María C. Ledesma- Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, University of Utah.
  
• Dr. Rita Kohli- Assistant Professor of Education at San Jose State University.
  
• Dr. Ramón Martínez- Assistant Professor of Language & Literacy Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
  
• Dr. Jen Petersen- Principal of Petersen Consulting, supporting initiatives to make cities more livable, sustainable and equitably profitable.