David Blancas

David Blancas is the Program Manager for the City of Aurora Financial Empowerment Center at The Neighbor Project. “Always in life, an idea starts small, it is only a sapling…

Michala Bell

Michala Bell is a Social Emotional Learning Specialist at Chicago Public Schools. “You got next is affectionately heard by our young people awaiting the opportunity to get into whatever game…

Roxanne Rose

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

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

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

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

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…

Darryl McDavid

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

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…