Dr. Tina Trujillo

Biography

Tina Trujillo is an Associate Professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Education. She earned her PhD in Education from UCLA and holds an MA in Education from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her professional background includes work as a public school teacher, educational consultant, and program evaluator. In her teaching, she focuses on PhD students, addressing issues surrounding policy, politics, and the epistemological aspects of research, while also teaching undergraduate students about contemporary issues in public education. Her research employs tools from political science, critical policy studies, and critical race theory to examine the politics of educational change, particularly the democratic instructional consequences of national and state accountability policies. Dr. Trujillo's interests also extend to the interplay of international political contexts and the promotion of democratic values within education. She has served on the Executive Committee of the UC Berkeley Center for Science and Psychedelics (BCSP) and is engaged in exploring the intersection of BCSP’s training programs with public education to foster diverse and inclusive approaches to the beneficial use of psychedelics. Her work has been published in various journals, including the American Educational Research Journal and Teachers College Record, and she has co-edited significant works on educational leadership and federal market-based reforms.

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