Jasmine Rodriguez
Jasmine Rodriguez is the Director of Mentor Engagement at Starfish Initiative. “I feel very honored to have been selected for the first cohort of Surge Fellows in Indianapolis. I look forward…
Mathew Mauricio Rojas
Mathew Mauricio Rojas is the Assistant Professor, Practice at Relay Graduate School of Education. “I see the Surge community working in a tangent not only towards redefining what educational equity…
Evan M. Taylor
Evan M. Taylor is an Instructional Coach at Indianapolis Public Schools. “The rapper and wordsmith put together his last album entitled “Feet of Clay” and noted that it was composed “during…
Keeanna Warren
Keeanna Warren is the Associate Executive Director at Purdue Polytechnic High School Network. “Through the Surge network, I hope to learn to build my strategy in navigating the educational system…
Chrystal Westerhaus
Chrystal Westerhaus is the Founding Principal at United Schools of Indianapolis, Avondale Meadows Middle School. “I interpret Surge being a movement and not a program. I believe that the Surge…
August 2020 Katie Boody
LEANLAB Education (Katie Boody, Co-Founder & CEO) announced the first recipients of their $50,000 Micro-Grant Support Fund, which included the impact and work of six Surge Alumni. Learn more about…
August 2020 DuJuan Smith
2015 Surge Chicago Alum, DuJuan Smith, has accepted the role of Associate Director of Graduate Advising for The University of Chicago Professional Education. This opportunity will allow him to serve…
August 2020 Charles King and Edgar Palacios
2020 Surge Alumni Charles King and Edgar Palacios have been announced as part of the fifth cohort of the Deeper Learning Equity Fellowship, which is made up of sixteen emerging leaders…
August 2020 Melissa Flores
August 2020 2019 Surge Chicago Alum Melissa Flores has been elected to the Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Alumni Council, for which she will be serving for four years. In addition,…
August 2020 Melissa Flores
2019 Surge Chicago Alum Melissa Flores has been elected to the Harvard University Graduate School of Education’s Alumni Council, for which she will be serving for four years. In addition, she has…