Daniel Cornejo is currently the Program Coordinator for the Teaching Excellence Network (TEN) at the Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational and Environmental Design (I-SEEED). At I-SEEED, Daniel is engaged in research and development on issues including teacher quality, teacher professional development, and educational equity. Daniel started his career as a 4th and 5th grade teacher in the predominantly Latina/o Brentwood neighborhood of Southwest Denver where he developed a love of teaching. Prior to joining I-SEEED he worked as the Administrative Director of the East Oakland Step to College (EOSTC) program, a direct service educational program dedicated to racial justice for Oakland youth emphasizing a high quality and critical education that prepares youth of color to confront and change the course of racial justice in their community and the nation. He has also conducted research for the Urban Hope Project examining the relationship between hope and academic achievement within urban communities, as well as with the Cesar Chavez Institute studying the correlation between the race/ethnicity of school board members and the academic impacts on Latino/a students. Additionally, Daniel works as an Adjunct Professor at San Francisco State University and The University of San Francisco teaching in the Ethnic Studies and Education Departments respectively. In 2011 he received the Teacher 4 Social Justice Award in recognition of powerful social justice based educational work in the classroom and in the community. Daniel holds an M.A. in Ethnic Studies from San Francisco State University, a Teacher Certification from The Metropolitan State College of Denver, and a BA in Political Science from Loyola University New Orleans.