Director of California Indian Culture and Sovereignty Center Department Chair, American Indian Studies, CSU San Marcos (CSUSM)
A full professor, Dr. Proudfit has been tenured three times in the CSU system. In addition to her academic positions, she was the first special advisor to the Honorable Cruz M. Bustamante, lieutenant governor of California, for California Indian Sovereign Nations in 2002.In 2016 she...
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Executive Director, California Indian Museum and Cultural Center (CIMCC)
Dr. Nicole Myers-Lim, Executive Director, California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, directs museum projects, including supporting K-12 schools and districts with culturally responsive curriculum and instruction.
Director, Kumeyaay Community College
Stanley Rodriguez, member of the Kumeyaay Santa Ysabel Band of the Iipay Nation is an educator, language teacher, and tribal singer. He is an advocate for his community’s culture and traditions and serves in a number of advising and teaching roles in the San Diego and Native Kumeyaay...
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Executive Director, TeachRock | RUMBLE: Music and Indigenous People in the Classroom, Rock and Roll Forever Foundation
Bill Carbone is Executive Director at Steven Van Zandt's Rock and Roll Forever Foundation (RRFF), where his skills as an ethnomusicologist, educator, musician, and people-person coalesce. At RRFF, Carbone leads a staff of 13 curriculum designers, policy wonks, and development professionals...
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Executive Leadership Coach in the Multilingual Education and Global Achievement (MEGA) Department, Learning and Leadership Services Division, San Diego County Office of Education (SDCOE)
Over the past 23 years Dr. Staci Block has served as a county office of education administrator, school principal, curriculum and instruction director, and classroom teacher. Staci has provided hundreds of customized professional learnings that activate teachers and administrators...
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