About me
Dr. Tracie Noriega, currently serves the students of California as the Sr. Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Professional Learning for ACSA. This is her 28th year as an educator, having served as a bilingual teacher, Principal, Director, and Assistant Superintendent. Tracie also serves as the immediate Past President of FAEAC (Filipino-American Educators Association of CA). Education became the route she chose as she was inspired by her high school teachers who supported her as a teen mom struggling to balance motherhood and education. It was Ethnic Studies that helped her to understand her experiences as the daughter of Filipino immigrants living in a predominantly white neighborhood. It was Ethnic Studies that enabled her to realize the detrimental relationship patterns she was perpetuating for herself and her son. Ethnic Studies allowed her to heal. It was Ethnic Studies that then became her core as a future Educator. It is Ethnic Studies and its values that continue to keep her centered as an Educator today and always, as she leads the work of building Ethnic Studies knowledge and opportunities within the districts she leads and others that she may support. Tracie Noriega will receive her doctorate of education from Sacramento State this May. Her research centers on Leadership FOR Ethnic Studies, specifically the support needed for school administrators to create conditions for implementing Ethnic Studies programs.
