The Sixty-Seventh Graduate Commencement - 2026

UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO 2026 Graduate Commencement

Doctoral Degrees School of Leadership and Education Sciences

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE Marco Octavio Rafael Amaral Cripping the Border - Acompañamiento as Access: An Ethnographic Case Study of Transborder Youth with Disabilities Bianca Elisa Arellano Knowledge in the Garage: Learning Through Lowriding Marika C. Barto Elevating Voices: Exploring the Impacts and Experiences of Required Workplace DEI Training Maricela Becerra Reclamando Corazón y Voz: Latinas Speak Their Truth Through Plática as Resistance in California Community College Learning Disabilities Assessments Rae Lee Chaloult We Were Never Meant to Stay: Guardianship and the Institutional Design Behind the Attrition of Minoritized Student Affairs Professionals Tanaisha Rhonda Coleman A Praxis of Transformative Care: Centering Historically Resilient Students at a PWI Danielle Renee Cooper-Williams Human Resource Management and Black Teachers’ Employee Experience in K-12 Urban Public Schools Kimberly Correa Co-theorizing Healing with Undergraduate Queer and Trans Latina Victim-Survivors of Power-based Violence Seema Mukhi Dahlheimer Racial Identity and Belonging Among Asian American Undergraduate Students in the Midwest Rae de Lune Neomythism: Transfigurative Invocation and the Re-Enchantment Engine in Human-AI Collaborative Art Summer M. Girgis Positioning Rights and Duties for Parent Representation at the CAC for Special Education Table: A Result of CBPAR Caroline Carlow Hastings Archival Articulations of Belonging: Resistance, Reimagination, and Resilience in School and in Incarceration

Cassandra Ann Herndon For my Oklahomies: Educators’ Perspectives on Policy, Public Discourse, and Professional Well-Being Nayoung Kim-Weaver Reclaiming Humanity in the Global Borderlands: Collective Homeplace Praxis among Women of Color Educators in International Schools Gerardo Lorenzo-Saucedo Rainbow Promises, Uneven Pathways: Framing LGBTQIA+ Educational Policy and Possibility in Education Juan Carlos Marques Moving Towards Humanization in Education: Teacher Models in K-12 Settings Euclide Jean Osse “Neither Colorblind, Neutral, nor Meritocratic”: A Critical Examination of South Korea’s E-2 Visa Policy Through The Lens of the Excluded Joe Arnett Petty Including Conscientiously: How K-8 Classroom Teachers Experience Inclusive Education Programming Implementation Alejandra Rubalcaba Living Pedagogies of Voice: Co-Creating a Decolonial Project to Reimagine Special Education Norma Santillanez Rueda Stories of California Mini-Corps Tutors: Exploring the Experiences of Bilingual Early Preservice Teachers Kelly Danielle Shelton The Voices of Educators and Elders: Examining A Supplemental Educational Program Through a Culturally Responsive Lens in Gullah Geechee and African American Communities Kenneth Matthew Van Tilburg Exploring Undergraduate Understanding and Learning of Catholic Social Teaching in Catholic Higher Education Tara Shanti Waudby Compassion at the Core: Reimagining Schools as Centers of Human Flourishing through Youth Led Action Research Kevin Lyle Workman Precarious Privilege: Exploring the Intersection of White Teacher Habitus & Social Justice in International Schools

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