Faculty Directors

Eileene Tejada

Lecturer Faculty, Department of Latina/Latino Studies

Faculty Director, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum | 2024-2025

Dr. Tejada is an anthropological researcher, ethnographic writer, and poet dedicated to decolonizing knowledge. Her current work focuses on Bomba, a cultural form from Puerto Rico that resists colonization and slavery, framed within the context of globalism. With over 30 years of teaching experience in English Composition, Literature, and Critical Thinking at Napa Valley College, and as a lecturer at San Francisco State's College of Ethnic Studies, she integrates Global South epistemologies to enrich students' cultural understanding. Dr. Tejada has also served as Academic Senate President, a commissioner for the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges, and in various roles within faculty unions. Balancing her academic career with raising two daughters, she remains deeply committed to educational access and decolonization to promote equity in academia and beyond.

Dr. Kasturi Ray

Faculty Director, Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum | 2022-2024
Professor and Former Chair, Women and Gender Studies

Kasturi Ray’s Ph.D. training is in Modern Media and Cultural Studies (Brown University, 2004). Her most recent publication is Spent Behind the Wheel (U of Minnesota). Since 2006, she has been teaching courses such as Feminist Pedagogies and Muslim Feminisms in Women and Gender Studies. She is particularly interested in exploring how trauma-informed pedagogies might help intervene in inequity gaps in student reading. In collaboration with other CEETL members, including faculty directors and instructional designers, Kasturi supported the SFSU GWAR community and launched an Abolitionist Teaching and Learning Community during her Directorship.

Dr. Stephanie Sisk-Hilton

Faculty Director, Multimodal Excellence in Teaching & Learning | 2022-2024
Professor, Elementary Education

Stephanie Sisk-Hilton is a professor in the Department of Elementary Education. Her research and teaching focus on supporting place-based, culturally responsive science learning that allows children and teachers to take up critically important issues, particularly around the impacts of climate change on communities. She collaborates with educators to engage in practice-based research to continually examine how pedagogical and curricular decisions impact student learning. During the pandemic, she has struggled alongside her students and colleagues to create more flexible approaches to teaching and learning that support learning as well as wellness for both students and teachers. During her time at CEETL, Stephanie broadened this work toward sustainable, inclusive, and responsive pedagogies in collaboration with the CEETL team.

Dr. Kira Donnell

Faculty Director, Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion | 2022-2024
Lecturer Faculty, Asian American Studies

Kira Donnell is Lecturer Faculty in the Asian American Studies department. She holds an MA in Asian American Studies from SFSU and an MA and Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on Korean adoptees as individuals with agency and the development of an individual and collective Korean adoptee identity particularly as expressed through analysis of cultural productions. As a Lecturer Faculty member at SFSU, she is particularly interested in advocating for the support and recognition of Lecturer Faculty as well as exploring and implementing teaching practices and pedagogies that promote equitable and accessible learning experiences for students.

Wei Ming Dariotis

CEETL Faculty Director | 2019 - 2022
Professor of Asian American Studies

Wei Ming Dariotis served as Faculty Director of the SF State Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CEETL) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting her career at SFSU in 1999, she is an emerita professor of Asian American Studies (1999-2022) and also served as affiliate faculty of the EdD in Educational Leadership (2018-2022). She also served as Assistant Vice President of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from UCSB, and her research interests include diversity in educational leadership; race, gender, and science fiction; Asian American literature and poetry; critical mixed race cultural and literary studies; pedagogy studies; and teaching effectiveness assessment. She co-edited and co-curated, with Laura Kina, War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, two art exhibits and a book of the same name (UW Press, 2013). With Laura Kina and Camilla Fojas, she co-coordinated the Inaugural Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at DePaul University, 2010, and co-authored the definition of Critical Mixed Race Studies. She serves on the editorial board of Asian American Literatures: Discourses and Pedagogies, and co-founded the Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies. Her co-edited anthology, Fight the Tower: Asian American Women Scholars' Resistance and Renewal in the Academy, is published by Rutgers (2019).

Amy K. Kilgard

Founding Faculty Director | 2017-2019
Professor & Chair of Communication Studies

Amy Kilgard is a professor and chair of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University. Her research and creative work exist at the intersections of performance (both everyday and aesthetic), pedagogy, and consumerism. In the classroom, Amy works to create an environment where passion, compassion, risk, and intervention thrive; where all participants feel supported and included; and where participants learn from one another through sharing personally vulnerable, culturally valuable, socially important performances that contribute to social justice. Amy is honored to have served as the first faculty director of the Center for Equity and Excellence in Teaching and Learning at SF State.