CEETL is a support center connecting all SF State faculty with support and professional development opportunities that promote equity-minded, innovative, and reflective learning and teaching. Our faculty directors provide teaching support and resources to all faculty.
2024-2026 Faculty Directors for CEETL
Jennifer Trainor
Professor, Department of English
Faculty Director, Multimodal in Excellence in Teaching & Learning
Jennifer Trainor is a professor in the English department, where she teaches graduate courses on writing pedagogy, as well as undergraduate writing courses. She is the author of a book and several articles on critical pedagogy and antiracism. More recently, her research has focused on disability justice, assessment, student engagement, and technology, including the impact of AI on writing pedagogy. Her book, Rethinking Racism: Emotion, Persuasion, and Literacy Education won the MLA’s Mina Shaughnessy Prize for scholarship in composition. Other publications include "Charting a New Course: Organic Writing Assessment" and "Literacy in the Age of the Machine."
Eileene Tejada
Lecturer Faculty, Department of Latina/Latino Studies
Faculty Director, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum
Dr. Tejada is an anthropological researcher, ethnographic writer, and poet dedicated to decolonizing knowledge. Her current work focuses on Bomba, a cultural form from Puerto Rico that resists colonization and slavery, framed within the context of globalism. With over 30 years of teaching experience in English Composition, Literature, and Critical Thinking at Napa Valley College, and as a lecturer at San Francisco State's College of Ethnic Studies, she integrates Global South epistemologies to enrich students' cultural understanding. Dr. Tejada has also served as Academic Senate President, a commissioner for the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, and in various roles within faculty unions. Balancing her academic career with raising two daughters, she remains deeply committed to educational access and decolonization to promote equity in academia and beyond.