Experience Highlights
Highlighting experiences that have informed my work and shaped my passions.
Educational Opportunity Program (EOP)
San Francisco State University
Faith had the privilege of mentoring a dedicated group of first-year, first-generation scholars of color as Lead Mentor. Her approach centered active listening, trust building, sharing personal experiences, and consistently supporting her mentees’ academic and personal success. She was intentional about connecting students to resources and opportunities that fostered their growth and strengthened their sense of belonging—whether in academics, extracurricular interests, or cultural identities. In addition to her mentoring role, she served as a Student Support Specialist, guiding students throughout the broader program. This direct work with students heavily informed her efforts as a Community Event Coordinator, where she managed outreach and coordinated communication for planning workshops, student events, and speaker invitations.
Pin@y Educational Partnerships (PEP)
SFUSD x SFSU Ethnic Studies
Faith taught high school Ethnic Studies in SFUSD to 11th and 12th grade students for PEP San Francisco. She served under the Ethnic Studies department at SFSU and the Step to College program.
PEP is a service-learning/learning-service program that forms a “triangular partnership” between the university, public schools, and the community to cultivate a barangay (community) to produce critical educators and curricula at all levels of education and in the community.
The Step to College program is a program that aims to increase the number of first-generation and historically underrepresented students who apply to, attend and graduate from our nation’s colleges and universities.
San Francisco Unified School District
SFUSD x Peer Resources San Francisco (Student-Teaching)
Faith had the honor to return to her high school alma mater to teach ethnic studies to 11th and 12th-grade students through the Social Justice and Educator Pathway. In this role, she emphasized community-responsive pedagogy in the classroom by integrating students' diverse perspectives and experiences into the curriculum to deepen their engagement and connection to the material.
Through a partnership between Peer Resources San Francisco and the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD), she guided students in leading a Transformative Change project using Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR). This initiative empowered students to identify a need within their school community and develop a solution. Together, they created a bilingual buddy program—entirely youth-driven and youth-led—designed to help newcomer and English language learner students feel more connected and less isolated among their peers.
Coleman Advocates For Children and Youth
Excelsior District, San Francisco, CA
Faith began her involvement with Coleman Advocates as an intern, working under the guidance of two mentors. She supported outreach and recruitment for the YMAC (Youth Making a Change) program by tabling at schools in San Francisco’s Excelsior District. Later, she contributed to the program as a Youth and Community Coordinator, engaging with students and families of color in the community to better understand their experiences so that their stories could inform the organization’s advocacy work.
Additionally, during her time, she took part in Coleman/YMAC’s efforts to push SFUSD to prioritize the educational success of students of color, expand access to ethnic studies classes, and advocate for holistic, preventative solutions in K-12 schools—particularly restorative justice practices—to support young people of color who are disproportionately affected by severe disciplinary measures. This work aimed to humanize these students and promote their long-term well-being.
Social Justice Educator Pathway
PULSE (Leadership, Service, and Equity) Pathway
During Faith's time at her high school alma mater, she was a part of the Social Justice and Educator Pathway program, known as PULSE. This program emphasized building student leadership, promoting community service, and advocating for equity in education and society at large.
Her involvement in the pathway program planted many seeds for her passions, both academically and professionally. This experience, along with her taking her first ethnic studies class in her second-to-last year of high school, inspired her to pursue higher education with a deliberate focus on understanding societal systems, the histories and perspectives of people of color, and applicable avenues for social change.
