Leadership

Anoshua Chaudhuri

Senior Director of Teaching and Learning Programs and Services

CEETL serves a vital role on our campus, as a source of community, and teaching and learning support to faculty; and of course as a crucial means of enabling our students to succeed in the classroom, and beyond.  Dr. Chaudhuri is ideal for this position having directly served our students for 20 years, and proven herself as a respected and effective leader.  

Dr. Chaudhuri was a full professor and department chair in the Economics department at San Francisco State University just before joining CEETL. She received a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington, Seattle, and an M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. Dr. Chaudhuri’s research has been at the intersection of health, development, and family economics, evaluating the impacts of policies and programs on community and household health outcomes with a focus on children and the elderly. She has over 25 publications in peer-reviewed journals and books. She continues to collaborate with community agencies in participatory research projects and has received many engaged scholarship awards and high-impact teaching awards as she involves her students in these research projects. She has taught courses in Health Economics Research, Economics of Gender, and Microeconomics and has been a dedicated user of community service learning in her classroom. She has contributed to the Office of Faculty Affairs’ efforts around diversity, equity, and inclusion in hiring at SF State. Closely working with CEETL, she has also led improvements around student success and equity gaps in the Economics department. Dr. Chaudhuri serves on the Boards of SF State’s University Corporation as well as a non-profit mental health agency, Richmond Area Multi-services or RAMS. She received the 2023-25 Lam Larsen Distinguished Service Professor award from the Lam Family College of Business for all her contributions to the campus and community, through her teaching, research, and service. 

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.

Jennifer Trainor

Professor, Department of English

Faculty Director, Multimodal Excellence in Teaching and 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."

Dr. Kasturi Ray

Faculty Director, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum | 2022-2024
Professor and Former Chair, Women and Gender Studies

Kasturi Ray’s Ph.D. training is in Modern Media and Cultural Studies (Brown University, 2004). Her most recent publication is Spent Behind the Wheel (U of Minnesota). Since 2006, she has been teaching courses such as Feminist Pedagogies and Muslim Feminisms in Women and Gender Studies. She is particularly interested in exploring how trauma-informed pedagogies might help intervene in inequity gaps in student reading. In collaboration with other CEETL members, including faculty directors and instructional designers, Kasturi supported the SFSU GWAR community and launched an Abolitionist Teaching and Learning Community during her Directorship.

Dr. Stephanie Sisk-Hilton

Faculty Director, Multimodal Excellence in Teaching & Learning | 2022-2024
Professor, Elementary Education

Stephanie Sisk-Hilton is a professor in the Department of Elementary Education. Her research and teaching focus on supporting place-based, culturally responsive science learning that allows children and teachers to take up critically important issues, particularly around the impacts of climate change on communities. She collaborates with educators to engage in practice-based research to continually examine how pedagogical and curricular decisions impact student learning. During the pandemic, she has struggled alongside her students and colleagues to create more flexible approaches to teaching and learning that support learning as well as wellness for both students and teachers. During her time at CEETL, Stephanie broadened this work toward sustainable, inclusive, and responsive pedagogies in collaboration with the CEETL team.

Dr. Kira Donnell

Faculty Director, Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion | 2022-2024
Lecturer Faculty, Asian American Studies

Kira Donnell is Lecturer Faculty in the Asian American Studies department. She holds an MA in Asian American Studies from SFSU and an MA and Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on Korean adoptees as individuals with agency and the development of an individual and collective Korean adoptee identity particularly as expressed through analysis of cultural productions. As a Lecturer Faculty member at SFSU, she is particularly interested in advocating for the support and recognition of Lecturer Faculty as well as exploring and implementing teaching practices and pedagogies that promote equitable and accessible learning experiences for students.

Crystal Wong

Interim Senior Director of Teaching and Learning Programs and Services | 2022 - 2023

Crystal O. Wong, EdD, has been teaching in the writing program at San Francisco State University since 2007. Prior to that, she taught in a variety of educational institutions, from elementary schools to adult literacy programs and community colleges. A first-generation college graduate, Dr. Wong received a B.A. in Music, B.A. in Liberal Studies, M.A. in English, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership. She has published articles and led workshops on student engagement, learning, and assessment, and has received the university-wide First-Year Teaching Award and the Liberal & Creative Arts Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Wong has a passion for learning and effective teaching and is an advocate for social justice, inclusivity, and equity for marginalized students.

Maggie Beers

Assistant Vice-President for Teaching and Learning | 2018-2022

Maggie Beers received her B.A. and M.A. in Spanish and Latin American Literature from UC Santa Barbara and her Ph.D. from the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, where she investigated ways to prepare teachers to use audiovisual media, educational technology, and digital ethnography methods to define and teach culture from a social justice perspective in modern language courses. With more than 20 years’ teaching and 10 years' administrative experience in public post-secondary institutions in the US, Canada, Spain, and France, Maggie passionately provided faculty and students universal access to a wide range of teaching strategies and experiences in support of student success, many of which are enabled by technology. During her time at SFSU, Maggie supported the committed CEETL staff and faculty to develop and expand our faculty development programs and services in support of effective, equitable, and inclusive teaching and learning with (or without) technology. Maggie is currently the Associate Chief Information Office at University of California, San Francisco.

Wei Ming Dariotis

CEETL Faculty Director | 2019 - 2022
Professor of Asian American Studies

Wei Ming Dariotis served as Faculty Director of the SF State Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CEETL) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting her career at SFSU in 1999, she is an emerita professor of Asian American Studies (1999-2022) and also served as affiliate faculty of the EdD in Educational Leadership (2018-2022). She also served as Assistant Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from UCSB, and her research interests include diversity in educational leadership; race, gender, and science fiction; Asian American literature and poetry; critical mixed race cultural and literary studies; pedagogy studies; and teaching effectiveness assessment. She co-edited and co-curated, with Laura Kina, War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, two art exhibits and a book of the same name (UW Press, 2013). With Laura Kina and Camilla Fojas, she co-coordinated the Inaugural Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University, 2010, and co-authored the definition of Critical Mixed Race Studies. She serves on the editorial board of Asian American Literatures: Discourses and Pedagogies, and co-founded the Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies. Her co-edited anthology, Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, is published by Rutgers (2019).

Amy K. Kilgard

Founding Faculty Director | 2017-2019
Professor & Chair of Communication Studies

Amy Kilgard is a professor and chair of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University. Her research and creative work exist at the intersections of performance (both everyday and aesthetic), pedagogy, and consumerism. In the classroom, Amy works to create an environment where passion, compassion, risk, and intervention thrive; where all participants feel supported and included; and where participants learn from one another through sharing personally vulnerable, culturally valuable, socially important performances that contribute to social justice. Amy is honored to have served as the first faculty director of the Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning at SF State.