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Christine Shen

Education Lecturer; Director, Community Schools Initiative
Christine Shen
Education Lecturer; Director, Community Schools Initiative
Departments

Education

Ed.D., Educational Leadership, UCLA

M.A., Student Affairs, UCLA

B.A., East Asian Languages and Cultures, Minor in Education, UCLA

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Dr. Shen received her doctorate from UCLA and currently directs the UCLA Community School Initiatives and UCLA’s university, state, and regional PK-16 partnerships. Her expertise in system-level instructional and organizational leadership with local, county, and state Departments of Education has resulted in large-scale school transformation in Los Angeles, including opening the first charter middle school and serving as a founding member of the Partnership for Los Angeles Schools, the largest, in-district public school transformation organization in the United States that manages a network of LAUSD schools in Boyle Heights, South LA, and Watts.