TEACHERS
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Christina Tang
Teacher Committee Chair Christina Tang received her Single Subject Credential in Social Studies at San Francisco State University after completing her B.A. in History at the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught in a public high school since 2010. Christina was one of the Thank-a-Teacher 4 Social Justice awardees In 2020. She was chosen to participate in a summer 2023 ESJF decolonization study tour in Germany. Erin Hanlon-Young
Erin received her Single Subject teaching credential in Social Studies & M.A. in education from Mills College. Previously she had earned a B.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John's College and a M.S. in Biology from the University of Utah. She has taught Social Studies at Lowell High School since 2017, and has been a National Board certified teacher since 2023. She has been accepted to several NEH-funded summer institutes and was chosen to participate in a summer 2023 ESJF decolonization study tour in Germany. Faye Kwan
Faye Kwan holds an M.A. in Educational Leadership from the University of California at Berkeley. She received her Education Specialist and Single Subject Credential from Dominican University of California and a B.A. in Art from the University of California at Irvine. |
LECTURERS
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Sung Sohn
Co-Founder & Executive Director Sung Sohn is a former bilingual resource and classroom teacher who founded the Korean/English Two-Way Immersion Program within the San Francisco Unified School District in 1994. Since 2023, ESJF, a 501 c(3) NGO founded in 2017, has been in special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council. Sung is also the director of feminist foreign policy at the US Women’s Caucus. Over her career, she has published Korean Two-Way Immersion Curriculum Guide (1994), “Comfort Women” History and Issues: Teacher Resource Guide (2018), and “Comfort Women” History and Issues: Student Resource Guide (2018). Eric Mar
Advisory Committee Chair Eric Mar is a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (2008–2016), where he worked with local and international organizations to install the Women’s Column of Strength memorial in 2017. He is the past commissioner and president of the San Francisco Board of Education (2000–2008) and has been active in social justice movements for more than 35 years. He is an Emeritus Professor in Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University, where he has taught public policy, government, law, and social movements in the nation’s first and only College of Ethnic Studies. He is co-editor of Mountain Movers: Student Activism and the Emergence of Asian American Studies (UCLA Asian American Studies Press, 2019). Russ Lowe
Co-founder Russ Lowe is a former office director at Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s San Francisco office and state liaison for Asian and Asian American Affairs for about two decades. He co-founded The San Francisco Journal, which ran from 1976 to 1980. The San Francisco Journal operated with an all-volunteer staff and focused on issues in the Asian American community, reflecting its struggles and progress, often ignored by the mainstream media. One of the main contributions of this journal was helping to dismantle the stereotyping of Asian Americans as a “model minority” defining AAPIs as a whole, instead highlighting the diversity among different groups. |