Dr. G.T. Reyes (Taga-Ilog & Kapampangan) is a community-engaged scholar-artist-organizer. His work is grounded in the empowerment of young folks, teachers, school leaders, and cultural workers to radically imagine and build capacity to transform their own realities. As an Associate Professor in the Educational Leadership for Social Justice Ed.D. program at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB), his approaches to educational leadership development, research, and professional learning are rooted in critical, socio-cultural, & ethnic studies discourses that forefront culturally sustaining and radical healing pedagogies while also decentering whiteness and colonialism. In addition to his work in the Department of Educational Leadership at CSUEB, “Dr. G” is the critical pedagogy coach for the INSPIRE program and a co-facilitator with the Anti-Racist Liberatory Pedagogy Academy. Outside of CSUEB, he coaches educational leaders and is also a founding school designer and Board member for The FREEdom School of Homies Empowerment. Dr. G completed his Post Doctoral Fellowship from Stanford University and his Ph.D. in Language, Literacy, Society, and Culture in Education at the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to entering academia, he was a teacher, school/instructional leader, and organizational leader of a community-based organization in Oakland and Hayward.