Christine Shen

Dr. Shen received her doctorate from UCLA and directed 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.