Marcos Pizarro is the incoming Dean of the College of Education at Cal State Los Angeles.  Prior to that, he worked at San José State University as the Associate Dean of the College of Education and as a Professor of Chicanx Studies. Marcos’ work in the College of Education included facilitating an anti-racist, anti-ableist, abolitionist Inquiry to Action Group and co-creating and co-coordinating the Ethnic Studies Residency Program that prepares future Ethnic Studies teachers. He founded and coordinated MAESTRXS, a social justice teacher collective implementing a transformative education model with Latinx communities; works with schools on the development and implementation of Ethnic Studies curricula and culturally sustaining models of engaging students of Color; and co-coordinates the Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice (ITOC) , a project that provides training and support for teachers and teacher educators invested in transformative practices for racial justice.