Candidate for
School Director; Berkeley Unified School District

Berkeley Federation of Teachers (BFT)
Berkeley Council of Classified Employees (BCCE)
Berkeley Democratic Club
East Bay Stonewall Democratic Club
Green Party of Alameda County
Berkeley Tenants Union
Berkeley Citizens Action
Evolve California
Robert Reich, Professor, U.C. Berkeley; Former U.S. Secretary of Labor
Pamela Doolan, Former Berkeley School Board President
Irene Hegarty, Former Berkeley School Board President
Shirley Issel, Former Berkeley School Board President
Pedro Noguera, Former Berkeley School Board President
Nancy Riddle, Former Berkeley School Board President
Joaquin Rivera, Former Berkeley School Board President; Trustee, Alameda Co. Board of Education
Miriam Rokeach (Topel), Former Berkeley School Board President
John Selawsky, Former Berkeley School Board President
Elizabeth Shaughnessy, Former Berkeley School Board President
Max Anderson, Berkeley City Councilmember
Susan Wengraf, Berkeley City Coucilmember
Dion Aroner, Former State Assemblymember
Tony Thurmond, Candidate for Assembly (District 15)
Michele Lawrence, Former Superintendent, Berkeley Unified School District
Jack McLaughlin, Former Superintendent, Berkeley Unified School District
Maria Echaveste, Policy and Program Development Director, Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy; former White House Deputy Chief of Staff
Christopher Edley, Jr., Former Dean, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Tirien Steinbach, Executive Director, East Bay Community Law Center
Britt Alamo, Teacher, Longfellow Middle School
Lynda Arnold, Teacher, Rosa Parks Elementary School
Rick Ayers, Former Teacher, Berkeley High School
Alicia Barajas, Secretary, Rosa Parks Elementary School
John Becker, Teacher, Berkeley High School
Natalia Bernal, Teacher, LeConte Elementary School
Dana Blanchard, Teacher, LeConte Elementary School
Joan Brannigan, Former Teacher, Berkeley Unified School District
Joe Brulenski, Former Teacher, Berkeley Unified School District
Cathy Campbell, President, Berkeley Federation of Teachers (BFT)
Cloud Chavez, Former Teacher, Berkeley Unified School District
Michelle Contreras, Teacher, Rosa Parks Elementary School
Donna Davis, Teacher, Berkeley Adult School
Kathleen Davis, Teacher and Program Coordinator, Berkeley Adult School
Kate Donaldson-Fletcher, Teacher, LeConte Elementary School
Barry Fike, Teacher, Jefferson Elementary School; Former President, Berkeley Federation of Teachers
John Fike, Teacher, Berkeley Technology Academy
Amy Stelmach Frey, Former Vice-Principal, Berkeley High School
Kathleen Gadway, English Language Development Coach, Rosa Parks Elementary School
Amanda Green, Teacher, Berkeley High School
Sarah Guo, Off-site Teacher, Berkeley Adult School
Karla Herndon, Teacher, Berkeley High School
Tracy Hollander, President, Berkeley PTA Council
Tom Holmes, Librarian, King Middle School
Tracey Iglehart, Teacher, Rosa Parks Elementary School
Alison A. Kelly, Teacher, Rosa Parks Elementary School
Nancy King, Teacher, LeConte Elementary School
Matt Lipner, Teacher, Thousand Oaks Elementary School
Regina Maradiegue, Teacher, Rosa Parks Elementary School
Greg Martin, Teacher, LeConte Elementary School
Mary Martin, Teacher, Rosa Parks Elementary School
Nabila Massoumi, Former BUSD English Language Development (ELD) Coach
Suzanne McCulloch, BUSD Visual and Performing Arts Supervisor
Matilde Merello, Teacher, Rosa Parks Elementary School
Hasmig Minassian, Teacher, Berkeley High School; Co-lead of Communication Arts and Sciences (CAS) Small School
Rikki Moreno, District Nurse, Berkeley Unified School District
Christine Meuris, Former Reading Coach Program Coordinator, Oxford Elementary School
Dr. Benton Ng, Former Principal, Cragmont Elementary School
Joy Osborne, Former Teacher, Berkeley Unified School District
Mary Patterson, Teacher, Longfellow Middle School
Brook Pessin-Whedbee, Teacher, Rosa Parks Elementary School
Paula Phillips, President, Berkeley Council of Classified Employees (BCCE)
Bill Pratt, Teacher, Berkeley High School
Becky Rosen, Teacher, Thousand Oaks Elementary School
Julie Searle, Teacher, King Middle School
Thomas Sinsheimer, Teacher, King Middle School
Bernadette Szafranski, Former Teacher, Berkeley Unified School District
Phoebe Tanner, Former Teacher, King Middle School
Toby Alexander, Former School Board Member, Scotts Valley (Ca.) Unified School District
Rosa Bay, Supervising Attorney, School-Based Legal Services, East Bay Community Law Center
Robert C. Berring, Jr., Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Jeff Brand, Former Dean, University of San Francisco School of Law
Susan Brand, Ed.D., Chairman of the Board, The Jazzschool
Cathryn Bruno, Former Berkeley Council PTA President
Jeff Bruno, Teacher, San Leandro Unified School District
John Copacino, Professor of Law and Director, Criminal Justice Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center
Ruth Cossey, Professor of Education, Mills College
Margaret DeArmond, Former Teacher, Kern High School District
Patricia Donnelly, Assistant Dean for Instructional and Information Technology, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Jacob Dalton, Associate Professor, U.C. Berkeley
Malcom Feeley, Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Dan Fendel, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, San Francisco State University
William Fernholz, Director of Appellate and Competition Programs, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Robb Fisher, Teacher, Lafayette Unified School District
Laurel Fletcher, Clinical Professor of Law; Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Mary Louise Frampton, Faculty Director, Henderson Center for Social Justice, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Abby Friedman, Director, Family & College Resource Center, Coliseum College Prep Academy, Oakland, CA
Mary Friedman, Founding Executive Director, Berkeley Public Schools Fund (formerly BPEF)
Mark Gergen, Professor of Tax Law and Policy, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Lawrence R. Gross, Vice-President, Great Neck, N.Y., Board of Education
Andrew Guzman, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, International and Graduate Programs, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Eliza Hersh, Director, Clean Slate Practice, East Bay Community Law Center
Raha Jorjani, Supervising Attorney, U.C. Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic
Jennifer Kagiwada, Former Chairperson, Berkeley Commission on Early Childhood Education
Ian Haney-Lopez, Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Matt Haney, Commissioner, San Francisco Board of Education
Kathy Hatzke, Principal, Emerson Elementary School (Oakland, Ca.)
Henry L. Hecht, John and Elizabeth Boalt Lecturer in Residence, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Kristen Holmquist, Director, Academic Support Program, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Erik Jekabson, Director of Youth Programs, The Jazzschool
Andrea Jones, Instructor, Berkeley City College
Helen Kang, Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law
Alice Kaswan, Professor of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law; Former President, Rosa Parks PTA
Griselda Kondo, Preschool Teacher, The Berkeley School
William S. Koski, Professor of Law and Professor of Education, Stanford University; Director, Youth & Education Law Project
Christopher L. Kutz, Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Sonja Lenz-Rashid, Associate Professor of Social Work, San Francisco State Univ.
Neil M. Levy, Visiting Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Joyce Marks, Professor, College of Marin
Richard Marks, Ph.D., Professor, Somona State University
Saira Mohamed, Assistant Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Melissa Murray, Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Kara Nelson, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, U.C. Berkeley
David Onek, Former Commissioner, San Francisco Police Commission; Executive Director, Northern Ca. Innocence Project
Jose-Luis Orozco, Author, educator, and recording artist
Natanya Pearlman, Social Worker, The James Morehouse Project, El Cerrito High School
Steve Rasmussen, Consultant, SR Education Associates
Diane Resek, Professor Emerita of Mathematics, San Francisco State University
Russell Robinson, Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Suzy Ronfeldt, Former Teacher, Albany (Ca.) Unified School District
Andrea Roth, Assistant Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Miryam Sas, Professor of Comparative Literature and Film Studies, U.C. Berkeley
Jeff Selbin, Clinical Professor of Law; Faculty Director, East Bay Community Law Center
Elisabeth Semel, Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Death Penalty Clinic, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Robert Shireman, Former Deputy Undersecretary, U.S. Department of Education
Lucinda Sikes, Lecturer in Residence, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Gail Silverstein, Clinical Professor of Law, U.C. Hastings College of the Law
Jonathan Simon, Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
David Sklansky, Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Avani Mehta Sood, Assistant Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Mai Linh Spencer, Former Board Member, Berkeley Public Schools Fund
Sarah Sugarman, 2-3 Head Teacher, Mills College Children's School
Judith Tannenbaum, Training Coordinator, San Francisco WritersCorps
Amanda Tyler, Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Leti Volpp, Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Seth Wachtel, Associate Professor, University of San Francisco; Director, Architecture and Community Design Program
Henry Weinstein, Professor of Law, U.C. Irvine School of Law
Kate Weisburd, Supervising Attorney, Youth Defender Clinic, East Bay Community Law Center
Susan R. Whitman, Assistant Dean, U.C. Berkeley School of Law
Carrie Wilson, Executive Director, Mills Teachers College
Blaze Woodlief, Ph.D., Professor, College of Marin
Sujatha Baliga, Nationally-recognized Restorative Justice Advocate

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