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Whitneé Garrett-Walker

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Biography

Whitneé L. Garrett-Walker, PhD (she/her) is assistant dean of Credentialing and Partnerships in the School of Education, University of San Francisco. Whitneé is a Black, Indigenous (Natchitoches Tribe of Louisiana, enrolled member) and Queer wife, mother, and scholar born and raised on Raymaytush Ohlone Land. Whitneé has extensive experience loving, living and working in the field of public education and has spent over a decade as a middle and high school teacher, instructional coach and school administrator in urban public schools in Oakland Unified and San Francisco Unified School Districts, respectively. Dr. Garrett-Walker is a triple-credentialed California educator who believes deeply in the power of critical hope, healing, and educational justice in the field of education. As a scholar practitioner, Whitneé uses qualitative research as the foundation of feeding her desire to explore and make known the experiences of the promise, challenge and potential of Black and Indigenous women in educational leadership.
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