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Jessica Leila Carranza is a Ph.D. student in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, concentrating in K-12 Education Policy. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare & Spanish: Hispanic Languages and Bilingual Issues, with a minor in Education at the University of California, Berkeley. She obtained a Master of Education from the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to attending USC, she was a bilingual elementary school teacher in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay Area. Her research interests include bilingual education, English learners, juvenile justice, and mental health in K-12 education.

Barbara Jackson Scholar,��University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA)

Associate Program Fellow, Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT), Phillips Academy������������

Dean’s Scholar, Televisa Foundation Education Fund for Graduate Student Research on Bilingual Education, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies University of�� California, Los Angeles

Dean’s Scholar, Lula Haven Hazelton Fellowship & Hearst Fellowship, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Ronald E. McNair Scholar, University of California, Berkeley

• Jimenez-Castellanos, Oscar, Kelly, Matthew G., and Carranza, Jessica L. “Pre- and Post-Serrano:�� Systemic Racism, School Funding Disparities and Mexican-American Communities.” Education Law & Policy Review. October 2021.
• Carranza, Jessica L. and Aguilera, Adrian. “Latinos and Diabetes Education in Northern California.” The Berkeley McNair Research Journal. April 2014.