Lan Nguyen (she/her) is a School Climate Program Associate on the Resilient and Healthy Schools and Communities team and serves as a technical assistance provider for the California Center for School Climate. In this role, she supports and guides local education agencies across the state in their school climate improvement efforts. As a former educator, Nguyen is grounded in the daily realities of school and classroom life. She uses that knowledge to guide her work with school and district leaders.
Nguyen’s areas of expertise include restorative leadership and practices in K–12 settings; school climate, community engagement, LGBTQ+ issues in education; and professional development facilitation and design. She works to ensure that partnerships with clients are collaborative and meaningful and that they center marginalized voices. In her coaching and facilitation experience with education leaders, Nguyen integrates humanizing restorative philosophies that support more equitable and just schools.
Nguyen is currently pursuing a joint EdD through UC San Diego and CSU San Marcos. She is interested in examining the role of school leaders in building restorative and relational school cultures. She is currently living and working in San Diego, the traditional and unceded ancestral homelands of the Kumeyaay.