Director of Educational Technology for Praxis Lead Equity and owner at Chicadita.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Jaime E. Welborn, Ph.D. currently serves as an Assistant Professor in Education Leadership at Saint Louis University in Missouri. She completed her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from Saint Louis University and has presented her research that investigated the degree to which principals use and value culturally proficient educational practices at Harvard and California State University. Jaime’s upcoming book, Leading Change through the Lens of Cultural Proficiency: An Equitable Approach to Race and Social Class in Our Schools, will be published by Corwin in January, and includes her research that investigated a school district’s two-year experiences of embedding the work of Cultural Proficiency in all aspects of the district.
Prior to coming to the university, Jaime served as an elementary school assistant principal in the Rockwood School District in West St. Louis County, and as a middle school mathematics and language arts teacher and elementary school teacher in rural and metropolitan public schools in Illinois. Jaime’s experiences in education have been in working with diverse student populations, and her work and other life experiences have contributed to her passion in using the Cultural Proficiency lens in education for increasing educational equity, social justice, and culturally proficient leadership.
In 2018, Jaime started a consulting business, JWE Education Consulting, LLC – DBA “doing business as” Midwest Collaborative for Cultural Proficiency in Schools. As a Senior Associate and Certified Trainer for the Center for Culturally Proficient Educational Practice in California, she works with school organizations, helping educators examine their individual values and behaviors, as well as their organization’s practices and policies, to implement and sustain the work of Cultural Proficiency through transformative action plans. Jaime lives in St. Louis with her husband, Daniel, and two daughters, Brynley and Hailee.
Lacey Jensen received her Master’s of Education and Bachelor’s Degrees from Old Dominion University in Virginia, where she graduated with Summa Cum Laude among other honors. Additionally, she was recognized with a Faculty Award of Excellence for her performance at the university. She greatly enjoy learning environments, as both a student and a teacher, keeping her ahead of changes in educational platforms and fueling her passion to facilitate learning for others.
Lacey has been a part of the Praxis Lead Equity team since 2021 and facilitates most online learning environments along with the online learning portal. She maintains her own business at https://chicadita.com.
