ShaKenya Edison is a leadership practitioner committed to establishing just educational systems, with high expectations, vertical and horizontal accountability, and shared responsibility in improving outcomes and experiences for children and youth. She has served in various capacities in education, including: Assistant Superintendent of Student & Family Services, Director of Student Services, Counselor, After-School Program Coordinator, and Safe School Coordinator. Her dedication to improving life outcomes for children and youth has moved her to serve in various leadership roles in both city and county community initiatives, including, but not limited to: youth violence prevention, school attendance, juvenile justice, law enforcement's role on K-12 campuses, county system collaboratives, gang prevention, and school discipline disproportionality.  ​Her expertise includes, but is not limited to: results-based facilitation and coaching; K-12  due process, policies and practices; law enforcement's role on school campuses; convening and partnering with community stakeholders to co-create strategies and align contributions; system design; multi-tiered system of support; and developing and support leaders. 

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ShaKenya is a practitioner of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Results Count® system change framework, and currently participating in the the Advanced Practitioners’ Program.  Through her leadership capacity and partnerships, districts and community partners have implemented processes, programs, initiatives, and/or systems that strategically address student, family, community, or systemic barriers that negatively impact children and youth thriving. Her focus and expertise is in leadership and system design.  ShaKenya believes that a quality, well-rounded education has the potential to improve life outcomes for children and youth, their families, and the overall community.

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Through Edison Educational Consulting, she remains committed to improving systems through building capacity in leaders to lead people differently, equitably distribute resources, design systems, and implement just policies and practices that remove barriers for the most burdened children and youth.  Additionally, Edison Educational Consulting centers co-creating and aligning contributions with all stakeholders to accelerate and sustain results, at scale. Simply put, Edison Educational Consulting  facilitates learning and application of  leadership and system design that centers equality, equity and justice so resources are used to create and sustain system conditions of well-being and thriving, not treating the symptoms of the absence of those things. 

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In recognition of her leadership, commitment to improving systems,  and results, ShaKenya Edison was the recipient of the Association of California School Administrators’ Region 9 Pupil Personnel Administrator of the Year Award, NAACP's Smith/Carlos Award, and Santa Clara Association of Black Educator's Administrator of the Year Award, to name a few. 

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Ma. Christina Fernandez is an experienced educational leader with a career spanning more than 15 years across classroom instruction, student support, school administration, expanded learning, and community-centered educational programming. Her leadership journey includes serving as Executive Director of Student and Family Services, Principal, Expanded Learning Opportunities Program Coordinator, Assistant Principal and Student Success Team Coordinator. Across these roles, she has consistently focused on strengthening instructional practice, developing educators, improving student outcomes, and creating school environments where students and families feel connected, supported, and empowered. 

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Throughout her career, Christina has worked to strengthen those conditions. As a school and program leader, she has redesigned student intervention systems, developed collaborative professional learning structures, coached and developed educational leaders, and aligned teams around shared instructional and student-centered goals. Her work reflects an ability to move between the immediate needs of a school community and the larger systems that influence sustainable change.

Central to Christina’s leadership is her commitment to relationships, belonging, and the whole experience of the young person. Her work has included developing structures to support students who face significant barriers to educational success, including creating programs for parenting teens, students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, foster youth, and students at risk of disengagement. She brings trauma-responsive and restorative perspectives to leadership, recognizing that meaningful academic outcomes are strengthened when students experience connection, dignity, safety, and a sense of belonging.

Christina also understands that complex challenges require collective solutions. Her leadership has included developing partnerships with community organizations, creating service agreements, engaging families, and connecting school communities with resources that extend beyond the traditional boundaries of education. These experiences have strengthened her ability to bring people together around shared needs and recognize the value of leveraging expertise and resources across systems.
 

For Christina, leadership is ultimately about seeing the whole system while staying deeply connected to the people within it. It is about creating the conditions for people to thrive, developing the capacity of others, and using relationships and collective action to move systems toward greater equity, care, and results.