Name: Guided by Experience, Grounded in Culture: Centering Identity, Justice, and Heart — How Latina Principals and Superintendents Lead with Purpose and Impact
Start: 2025-06-26T14:45:00-0700
End: 2025-06-26T15:45:00-0700

Welcome to the Summer Institute 2025 Schedule!
We’re thrilled to have you join us for an empowering experience focused on Somos Semillas: Cultivating the Future Together. You’ll engage with inspiring speakers, dynamic panels, and interactive workshops designed to ignite leadership and foster meaningful connections.
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Thursday June 26, 2025 2:45pm - 3:45pm PDT

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Rooted in lived experience and cultural heritage, this session highlights how Latina elementary school principals and superintendents are transforming education through equity-centered, emotionally intelligent, and purpose-driven leadership. Drawing from two dissertations Empowering Education: Unveiling the Strategies of Latina Elementary Principals in Cultivating Culturally Responsive Learning Environments, and Pláticas on Perseverance, Presence, and Praxis: The Occupassion of Latina Superintendents, the workshop explores how identity, justice, and heart are central to leadership that nurtures the potential of both students and staff.
Using strategies drawn from Chicana/Latina Feminist Epistemology, Community Cultural Wealth (Yosso, 2005), Applied Critical Leadership (Santamaría, 2014) and the Principles of Latino Leadership (Bordas, 2013), this session provides opportunities for reflection, storytelling, and collective dialogue. Participants will walk away with insights and tools to lead schools that are inclusive, equity-centered, and grounded in authentic connection. Together, we will explore how culturally responsive leadership creates the conditions for transformation, belonging, and liberation in our schools. Above all this workshop will provide a sense of affirmation and validation for the ways Latinas lead with love.

Speakers

Dr. Amaris J. Rivas

District Administrator, Ed Services, Lawndale Elementary School District

Dr. Amaris Rivas is a proud Latina educator, district administrator, and scholar dedicated to transforming public education through equity-driven, culturally responsive leadership. With over 24 years of service in education—including roles as a middle school teacher, bilingual coordinator... Read More →

Laura Solis, Ed.D.

Director II of Special Projects, Learning Support Services, Garvey School District

Dr. Laura Solís is a dedicated and visionary educational leader with nearly 30 years of experience in public education, including 19 years in administrative roles. She currently serves as Director II of Special Projects in Learning Support Services at Garvey School District, where... Read More →

Thursday June 26, 2025 2:45pm - 3:45pm PDT
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Dr. Amaris J. Rivas

Laura Solis, Ed.D.

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