October 2018 Lydia Mercer
October 2018 2019 Surge Fellow Lydia Mercer has accepted the role of Director of Secondary Supports on the National Program Team at OneGoal. In her new role, Lydia will learn from…
October 2018 Paul Morgan
2018 Alumnus Paul Morgan has accepted the role of Executive Director at Ignition Community Glass, an organization that uses hands-on learning to chip away at the diversity gap in glass art.…
September 2018 Adria Husband
2015 Alumna Adria Husband has launched Shifting Hearts and Minds, an organization that believes that true transformational change in our educational system and our society at large will come through shifting the…
September 2018 Willow Walker
2018 Fellow Willow Walker has accepted the role of Director of Admission and Recruitment with the Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund. In this new role. Willow develops the strategic plan for recruiting…
Terrence Pruitt
“The Surge Fellowship is doing that Fannie Lou Hamer and Ella Josephine Baker work – empowering a generation of leaders with the tools necessary to change the education system, thereby…
Aimee Rodriguez
“I am inspired to work in education due to my experiences growing up in an immigrant household. While I began my education by learning English at CPS, my hard work…
Steven Rosado
“Surge is important to me because we are living in a critical and transformative moment in history. Communities of color are under attack, and the progress we have made to…
Ernesto Saldivar Jr.
“By leveraging the power of inclusivity, the Surge Fellows (La Colectiva) are provided with the opportunity to be leaders amongst equals and actively participate in authentic collaborative opportunities where individual…
Nina Smith
“Being part of the Surge Institute would help me to become more confident in my leadership skills and more willing to take on challenges such as seeking out larger-scale collaborations…
Jacare Thomas
“Leaders that I feel have been most successful have kept students at the center of all that they do and have been brave enough to allow themselves to be led.…