Tina Trujillo

Tina Trujillo is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Education, where she teaches PhD courses in policy, politics, and epistemological research while mentoring doctoral students. Her professional background includes prior experience as a public school teacher, educational consultant, and program evaluator, providing practical grounding for her academic work.

Her educational credentials include:

• PhD in Urban Schooling, University of California, Los Angeles
• MA in Educational Foundations, Policy, and Practice, University of Colorado at Boulder
• BA in Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder

Dr. Trujillo's research critically examines educational politics through frameworks of critical policy studies, political science, and critical race theory. Her scholarship analyzes accountability policies' democratic consequences, international political contexts in education, and schools' promotion of collective values. Recent work explores intersections between nature, well-being, and learning alongside tensions between empirical and spiritual epistemologies.

Her research interests encompass:

• Politics of Education
• Policy Formation, Analysis and Evaluation
• Critical Studies of Race, Class, and Gender
• Equity and Social Justice
• Democracy
• Epistemology
• Nature and well-being
• Psychedelic training and education

As an Executive Committee member of the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP), she advances inclusive training programs that promote diversity in psychedelic education and explore therapeutic applications for mending human relationships with ecological systems. Her teaching extends to undergraduate courses on contemporary public education issues.

She maintains active involvement with research centers and professional networks focused on educational leadership, policy reform, and critical methodologies.