Mark Gomez, CEO & Founder - is a long-time K-16 educator focused on history, social studies, and education. He is also an educational consultant and thought partner helping districts and schools in California build Ethnic Studies programs as well as integrate authentic civic learning. Before that he served as the History & Social Science Curriculum Specialist for the Salinas Union High School District. Mark has also helped to lead regional communities of practice for teachers building their capacity to implement the 2016 California HSS framework. Mark’s curricular and instructional expertise include action civics, ethnic studies, civic imagination, critical media and literacy studies, restorative justice, environmental/social/racial justice, effective integration of technology, placed-based education, and community-driven school design.

Mark has taught both middle and high school history for the last 20 years. He has also taught within teacher education programs at UCLA, Antioch University LA, Cal State Dominguez Hills and Monterey Bay, where he currently teaches within the Education and Service Learning Institute. Mark also serves on the Board of Directors for the California Council of the Social Studies, co-chairing the Equity, Inclusion, and Social Justice committee. He is a founding design team member of the Schools for Community Action at Augustus Hawkins High School in Los Angeles and has been working throughout his career to empower students and teachers through authentic and participatory action research projects. His work has been presented at multiple education conferences and research publications He has co-authored several articles on practices in transformative and liberatory education for students and teachers.