Dr. Peter Flores
Founder and principal consultant of Praxis Lead Equity, LLC.
Peter Flores III, Ed.D. is founder and principal consultant of Praxis Lead Equity, LLC. He is also a senior associate for the Center for Culturally Proficient Educational Practice (CCPEP), board member and former Director of Equity for the Center for Leadership Equity and Research (CLEAR). He has over 17 years’ experience in public education as a high school teacher and administrator. He holds a B.S. in Liberal Arts from Excelsior College; a M.Ed. from Ashford University; and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from CSU Fresno.
Dr. Flores provides keynotes, leadership, and equity consulting, and professional development for the CCPEP Cultural Proficiency program having conducted Cultural Proficiency training for county offices, school districts, and universities throughout California and across the United States. He has also presented at numerous state conferences, the International Cultural Proficiency Institute, facilitated at the Institute
for Equity in Education, and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles as part of the Tools for Tolerance for Educators program. He has also presented at the Virginia Military Institute and as keynote speaker for U.S. Space Force at Vandenberg AFB.
He co-authored ACSA Leadership articles titled Overcoming Barriers to Change and Leading from the Strawberry Fields: Transformative Leadership from Santa Maria and co-authored a chapter published and titled, The Role of Formal and Nonformal leaders in Creating Culturally Proficient Educational Practices (IGI Global). He was invited by the Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) to help develop the framework for the ACSA Equity Academy and served as a member of the State Superintendent’s Transition Team for Closing the Achievement Gap.
Dr. Flores taught Naval Science as part of the NJROTC programs at Everett Alvarez High
School in Salinas, California and Soledad High School in Soledad, California. While at Soledad High School, he was a nominee for the 2007 Ercia Harden Memorial Teaching Excellence Award and a finalist for the Bay Area Teacher of the Year. He has served in administrative positions at the middle school, high school, Community school, and District levels. His last administrative assignment was as Director of Student Services of the Santa Maria Joint Union High School District on the California central coast.
Prior to his career in education, he served in the United States Navy as a Command Master Chief. He attended the Senior Enlisted Leadership Academy where he earned the Excellence in Achievement award. Master Chief Flores is an Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom War Veteran who earned numerous personal decorations, unit, and campaign awards, and retired after 25-years of honorable service.
Dr. Delia Estrada
K-12 Educator, Administrator & Coordinator, Los Angeles Unified School District
Delia Estrada, Ph.D., currently serves as administrative coordinator for the Human Resources Induction and Credentialing Unit Los Angeles Unified. In her over 30 years as an educator, she has had a range of experiences from history teacher, assistant principal, specialist, and a middle/ high school teacher and Principal of Taft H.S. in Woodland Hills.
She is committed to using the tools of Cultural Proficiency and Social Emotional Learning to build safe environments for educators to engage in fierce conversations and reflective practice to build flourishing schools for all children. She currently leads the preliminary administrative services credential program for LA Unified and provides induction coaching for new administrators. She received her Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University in 2017.
Dr. Rosa Guerra
Director of Leadership and Board Member Center for Leadership, Equity, and Research (CLEAR)
Rosa Guerra, Ed.D., a K-12 Administrator and Educator. She is a daughter of Guatemalan immigrants, Dr. Rosa Guerra was born and raised in the Pico-Union neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. As such, she is committed to ensuring equity and access for all children. Dr. Guerra has worked in the field of education since 1994. She began her career as a school office manager, then elementary school teacher, elementary school assistant principal, elementary school principal and currently serves as director of Child Development.
She has also taught graduate students as an adjunct professor for Point Loma of the Nazarene University. She holds a bachelor’s degree from California State University, San Bernardino, and a master’s and Ed.D. degree from Azusa Pacific University. Her doctoral dissertation entitled, Mentoring of Second-Generation Latino/a Principals: How Do Second-Generation Latino/a Principals Perceive the Roles Played by their Mentors in their Career? reflects her long-standing commitment to mentoring.
Dr. Tamara Ravalίn
Board Member of the Tulare County Hispanic Leadership Network (TCHLN)
and Central Valley Chapter of California Association of Latino Superintendents and Administrators (CALSA)
Tamara Ravalίn, Ed.D., recently retired as Superintendent of Visalia Unified School District, serving approximately 32,000 Pre-K through adult students. As an administrator she held the positions of Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services, Assistant Superintendent of Human Resources Development, and Dean of Student Services for a Community College. She currently serves as part-time faculty for a Preliminary and Clear Educational Administration Credentialing Program.
Dr. Ravalίn holds a BA in Industrial Arts and Technology from CSU Fresno, a M. Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from Lesley University, a M.A. in Educational Administration from Fresno Pacific University, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Administration from the University of the Pacific. As Superintendent, Dr. Ravalίn established a Cabinet level Equity Administrator position and District Equity Team which developed the District Equity plan that initiated Cultural Proficiency Certification for teams at each of the 42 schools with the goal of examining and addressing inclusivity, equity, and opportunity gaps. She co-authored and published Social Disorganization Theory and Crime Rates on California Community College Campuses in the Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
Teresa Zamora
K-12 Educator and Administrator
FUSD Equity and Access Leader
Teresa Zamora is an educational leader with more than fourteen years in K-12 public education. She currently serves as an Equity & Access leader for the third largest district in California- Fresno Unified. Teresa spent her youth learning the value of hard work in the greater part of Central California, cultivating agriculture alongside her family, and managing family businesses as early as she could reach the gas pedal! From cultivating the fields to cultivating the minds of children and families across the Central Valley as a Teacher, Mentor Teacher, Migrant Education Leader, and most importantly, social justice advocate in ALL realms- the latter is what brings her the most conviction. Teresa earned an A.A. degree from College of the Sequoias in her hometown of Visalia CA; B.A. in Spanish, Early Childhood Teaching Credential, Administrative Credential, and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership Summa Cum Laude from California State University, Fresno.