Peter Flores III, Ed.D.

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.