As a Program Associate with Resilient and Healthy Schools and Communities, Krystal Wu (she/her) delivers technical assistance, designs professional learning, and develops evidence-based resources to support the cultivation of safe and supportive learning environments.
Drawing on her expertise in culturally responsive and sustaining education, co-design, and school climate, Wu centers the voices and experiences of community members who have been kept furthest from opportunity. An expert in culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies, anti-oppressive education, humanizing facilitation, and race-centered equity, Krystal develops curricula and professional learning opportunities to help educators surface and shift their ideologies and ways of being.
Wu’s recent work at WestEd has focused on the design and facilitation of humanizing learning experiences. She leads the Safe and Supportive Learning Environments Deep Dive professional learning courses focused on racial equity and belonging through the Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety and the California Center for School Climate.
Prior to joining WestEd, Wu worked as an equity coach and an instructional coach and has over 10 years of experience as an award-winning secondary English Language Arts teacher. She collaborated with key community members to develop a multi-year vision for PK–12 antiracist curriculum and instruction and designed and led an equity-focused professional learning series for 150 faculty and staff members.
Wu holds a BA in English and women’s and gender studies from Santa Clara University and an MA in education from UC Berkeley.