2018 Surge Alumna, Kyra Marcano founded Brilliant Light, LLC, which provides strategic consultative support to clients ranging from identifying individual impact to larger scale strategic planning, staff development, and training.
Roxanne Rose is the Assistant Principal at Achieve Academy, Education for Change Public Schools. “Being a Surge Fellow means being in community with dynamic, critically engaged educational leaders who have…
Miranda Tsang is the Literacy Partnerships Program Manager at BUILD. “Surge is an opportunity to bridge resources for our community by understanding the true value of our lived experiences, and,…
Tyfahra Singleton is the Executive Director at Camp Phoenix. “I hope to amplify my impact with a professional network of leaders of color for whom, like me, equity is a…
Aijeron Simmons is the Program Manager at the Office of Social and Emotional Learning, Oakland Unified School District. “I see this fellowship as the opportunity to connect to other leaders…
Gabriel Sanchez is the Dean of Instruction at Education for Change. “I see the Surge Fellowship as a mechanism for change that has no definite limits in terms of its…
Alyssa Munson-Hernandez is the Assistant Principal at Epic Middle School, Education For Change. “I chose to apply to the Surge Fellowship to better prepare myself to agitate the spaces I…
We are proud to announce that 16 leaders from across the Oakland & Bay Area education landscape have been selected for the 2020 Surge Oakland Fellowship program! This year-long cohort-based…
Darryl McDavid is the Admissions Specialist at Year Up. “If movements such as the civil rights and smaller grassroots movements have exemplified anything it’s the power of a community response,…
Erik Martinez is the Manager, LGBTQ Support Services at San Francisco Unified School District. “Leadership for people of color must be centered in community and relationships. It is the idea…