Professional Development Academies in Education

Professional Development Programs in Information Studies

UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies is home to two departments. Each is a leader in their field, helping to pioneer what's next in the Education and Information worlds.

UCLA Ed&IS faculty are at the forefront of their fields, addressing issues of equality, access and social justice in the fields of education and information. Their scholarship has an international reputation for excellence and commitment to addressing the most critical issues facing our society.

An ecosystem of K-12 teaching schools where UCLA partners to develop, study, share, and advance innovative best practices.

The work at UCLA Ed&IS is guided by the principles of individual responsibility and social justice, an ethic of caring, and commitment to the communities we serve. Learn more about our mission and values, our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in our faculty and students, our history and more.

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Education
BA in History of Art and Architecture, Museum Studies emphasis; Minor in Educational Studies - University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019

Adeline (Addy) Stupin (she/her/hers)

Education
B.A in Chicanx Studies, UC Davis ‘21

Andrea Domínguez (she/they/ella)

Instagram | anneolivares@ucla.edu | (909) 728-8796

Anne Olivares (she/her/hers)

Specialization
Book History and Print Culture

Education
Bachelor of Arts, American Studies, 2021

Arcadia Barrile (she/them)

Bianca Jannethe Sosa-Phal

Specialization
Archival Studies and Special Libraries; Trauma-Informed Practice

Education
B.A. in History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Cecilia Contreras (she/her/hers)

Education
B.A., Sociology with a minor in Communications, CSU Bakersfield, 2020
A.A., History, College of the Canyons, 2017

Chloe Abrego (she/her)

Specialization
Community-Based Archives, Participatory Archiving

Coryn Hardison

Education
B.A. in English Education, Cal Poly Pomona

Edgar Alvarez (he/him/his)

Education
B.A. in English, CSU Sacramento

Ellie Callen (she/her/hers)

Area of Research Focus
Community-Based Archives & Museums

Erin Schneider (she/her)

estellagabriela1@gmail.com | (562) 453-9584

Honors during undergrad at Cypress College

Estella Garcia

Education
B.A. in Linguistics, Smith College '21

Estelle Yim (they/them)

LinkedIn | Twitter | felicitykflesher@gmail.com

Education
BA, Cinema and Media Studies, magna cum laude, Carleton College

Felicity Flesher (she/her)

Specialization
Academic and public librarianship; Intersection of information science and the criminal justice system; Services to people who are incarcerated

Education
B.A. in Latin American and U.S. History

Gissel Rios (she/her/ella)

Education
University of California, Riverside : B.A in English

Glen Sturgeon (he/him)

Grace Skalinder

Research Center
UCLA Community Archives Lab/ Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Internship Program

Specialization
Processes of collective remembering and forgetting

Education
B.A. in World Literature and Cultural Studies, UCSC 2017

Hannah Whelan (She/her)

Education
Bachelor of Arts Cinema and Cultural Studies

Jeffrey Flam

Education
Bachelor’s of Art, Art History, University of California, Riverside

Jenny Le

Jessica Keene

Jessica Marchesini (she/her)

Education
BA in History at University of British Columbia

Karl Theopold

Education
B.A. in Film Studies, minor in Journalism from University of Colorado, Boulder

Katie Crawford (she/her)

Specialization
Archives, Asian American Studies, LGBTQIA+ Studies

Education
BA in Asian American Studies, UCLA 2020

Kyla Worrell (they/them/theirs)

Specialization
Archives, Special Collections, and Digital Humanities

Education
B.A. in Art History and English

Laura Dintzis (she/her)

LinkedIn | lizbethsharon@ucla.edu | (626) 215-1953

Education
B.A. Legal Studies, UC Berkeley

Lizbeth Sharon (she/they)

Specialization
Digital Humanities, User Experience, Data Privacy and Ethics, Digital Hygiene

Madison Faulis

Magaly Salas (she/her/hers)

Maggie Tarmey (he/they)

Malek

Marley Rodriguez (she/her)

Specializations
Teaching with Primary Sources, Critical Pedagogies

Awards, Honors, and Fellowships
Library and Information Sciences Alumni Association Fellow, 2020-21

Maxwell Holland

Melodi Chin (she/her)

Website | Twitter |  michaelesokol@gmail.com

Specialization
Michael is interested in community archiving, digital humanities, and the ways that archives and art can be used to envision and enact more liberatory futures.

Education
B.S. in Communications (Television-Radio Production); Minor in Art History – Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 2010

Michael Sokol (he/him/his)

Natalie Wing

Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Literature (2018)

Schrodinger’s Narratives: Denis Diderot’s and Laurence Sterne’s Manipulations of Time and Space

Neemah (Ziggy) Ghassemi (he/him/his)

Pamela Rodriguez Cervantes (She/her/Ella)

Specialization
Media Archival Studies, Audiovisual Archives and Preservation, Film History and Practices, Commercial and Artist-run Moving Image Film Labs, Digital Methods

Education
B.A., Media Studies, University of California, Berkeley

2021 Association of Moving Image Archivists Rick Chace Foundation Scholarship    

2021-2022 American Library Association Spectrum Scholar

2020 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Scholarship Award

2019 Association of Moving Image Archivists Savada Family Legacy Fund Travel Grant

Patricia Ledesma Villon (she/her/hers)

rochellejohnston8@gmail.com | (213) 948-0825

Rochelle Johnston (she/her)

Specialization
Media Archival Studies, Audiovisual Archives, Digital Humanities

Education
BA in Film Studies & Rhetoric, UC Berkeley

Russell Zych (he/him)

Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | samregal@ucla.edu

Specialization
Special Collections and Art Librarianship

Education
MFA in Poetry, Hunter College
B.A. in English and American Literature and Dramatic Literature, New York University

ARLIS/NA Southern California Student Travel Award - 2021

UGA Willson Center Graduate Research Award - 2019

Finalist, Agnes Scott College Prize in Playwriting - 2019

Translation of Yao Feng’s One Love Only Until Death from Portuguese, Vagabond Press - 2017

Want: An Odyssey of Interview, Santa Ana River Review - 2018

Biography of Lee Miller, mina-loy.com - 2019

Research Center
California Rare Book School

Sam Regal

Specialization
Archives and Law Librarianship

Education
University of California, Riverside: BA - History (United States)

Mellon Foundation Grant - Visual Communications (2020-2021)

Digital Resource Development Initiative Award - June L. Mazer Lesbian Archive (2020)

Middle-Class Housewives: The Unexpected Feminists of World War II
Undergraduate History/ University Honors Thesis:
https://escholarship.org/content/qt6pr3w4dr/qt6pr3w4dr_noSplash_9b80311a0b65015b6d8b0fc6977ee8da.pdf?t=pwc8cy

"Annie Sullivan: A Bright and Shining Star"
Smithsonian Institution Archives:
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/annie-sullivan-bright-and-shinning-star

"The Hirshhorn Adventures: A Museum for the Mall"
Smithsonian Institution Archives:
https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/hirshhorn-adventures-museum-mall

Serena Rodholm

Shawne West

vera.tykulsker@gmail.com | (917) 671-7603

Education
B.A from Oberlin College, Africana Studies Major

Vera Schwartz Tykulsker (she/her)

LinkedIn | Slack Team |  vandrade91@ucla.edu

Specialization
Cultural & Historic Preservation, Library and Literacy Informatics, Special Collections

Veronica A. Andrade (she/her)

Education
UCLA, Class of 2019 - B.A. in English with a minor in Film, Television, and Digital Media