Alumni Spotlights

Overview October 1, 2014

The School’s alumni are an important part of our history and accomplishments in preparing education leaders in communities, schools and businesses throughout California and beyond. Please send your updates to ed-alumni@ucdavis.edu.

Spotlight January 19, 2017

Mac Pham

BA ’14, Cred. ’16

Spotlight January 13, 2017

Justin Smith and Melissa Amacher

Smith: Cred. ’14, MA ’15, Amacher: Cred. ’15, MA ’16

Spotlight January 12, 2017

Kaozong Mouavangsou

MA ’16, PhD ’22

As a product of the U.S. educational system, I grew up being miseducated about my own culture and history. Although the school curriculum didn’t explicitly teach me that my culture was inferior, the lack of Hmong history and culture in school made me believe this.

Spotlight January 12, 2017

Kelsey Krausen

PhD ’16

Spotlight January 28, 2015

Jessica Shaker

Cred. ’14, MA ’15

Spotlight December 3, 2014

Portrait of Mikael Villalobos and his niece Isabel Nuñez in Graduation attire

Mikael Villalobos and Isabel Nuñez

Villalobos: BA ’93, EdD ’14 Nuñez: Cred. ’14, MA in progress

Spotlight December 2, 2014

Susan Schnitzer

BA '78, Cred. ’78

Spotlight December 2, 2014

Phung Nguyen

BA ’13, Cred. ’14

In 2003, when Phung Nguyen arrived in California at the age of 14, he was placed in a class where he spent hours learning English words with three letters. Vietnam was far away, and he was homesick.

Today, Nguyen (BA ’13, Credential ’14) teaches physics, biology, and eighth grade science at Sacramento’s School of Engineering and Sciences (SSES), one of the newest and only 7th through 12th grade programs within Sacramento City Unified School District.

Spotlight November 6, 2013