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Ed.D. Advisory Board
About the Board
The Ed.D. Advisory Board is comprised of a variety of professionals, alumni, students, and thought leaders in the world of education throughout the greater Sacramento area.
The Board meets multiple times per year to deliver guidance to the Ed.D. program, in the areas of policy, research, and current industry trends. Their insight helps to guide the future education leaders currently enrolled in the Doctorate in Educational Leadership Program.
View the current members of the board and a short bio of each below.
Dr. Konstantina Caster
Program Specialist in Education, San Juan Unified School District
As a Program Specialist in Special Education with San Juan Unified School District, my professional work and research interests focus on educational leadership, teacher effectiveness, and educational equity.
I earned my Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership from California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). My doctoral research grew directly out of my experience as an Induction Support Provider for new teachers, and my work piloting a support program for teachers hired to serve in high-needs schools without teaching credentials. These experiences led me to investigate how organizational and professional support systems can strengthen new-teacher effectiveness and reduce teacher attrition, particularly in underserved and historically minoritized communities.
In my current role, I continue to observe the consequences of teacher shortages and turnover, especially for students with disabilities, whose access to consistent, effective instruction and specialized services depends on a stable, well-supported workforce. This connection between my doctoral research and professional practice informs my commitment to research-driven leadership, the development of sustainable teacher support systems, and the preparation of educational leaders who can address systemic challenges and advance equitable outcomes for all students.
Dr. Meredith Galloway
Strategic Planning and Professional Development, Westlake Charter School
Dr. Meredith Galloway is a long-time educator who has held teaching and site leadership roles. Currently,
her work encompasses strategic planning and staff professional development at Westlake Charter School. She co-leads the school’s continuous improvement and self-study work, centering data-informed inquiry and people-focused communication. A previous founding English Language Arts teacher at Westlake, she also works to modularize the school’s professional development program allowing for flexible, asynchronous learning that highlights institutional bright spots. Additionally, Dr. Galloway is currently a guest lecturer in the Ed.D. program at Sacramento State University.
As a doctoral researcher, she co-authored studies on community college completion rates and the intersection of school privatization and educational equity, having been published in Community College Review, Educational Policy, and a UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report background paper. She has presented her work at AERA and other state and national conferences.
Dr. Galloway is a proud graduate of Sac State’s Ed.D. program. She earned her doctorate in Educational Leadership in 2021 as a Distinguished Honor Graduate and was also a 2020 UCEA/AERA Clark Scholar. She served on a local school board from 2021 to 2024 and describes herself as a passionate lover of people, stories, and distance running.
Dr. Siria Martinez
Assistant Vice Chancellor, California Community Colleges
Siria S. Martinez, Ph.D, who has dedicated her career to eliminating educational inequality, will lead the Institutional Effectiveness Partnership Initiative (IEPI) in deploying professional development and technical assistance aimed at advancing equity and success strategies. She comes to the Chancellor’s Office from Woodland Community College, where she served as Dean of Student Success & Institutional Effectiveness and Interim Dean of Student Services and where she co-led an 11-person interdisciplinary Student Success Committee overseeing the development of a three-year Student Equity Plan.
A Los Angeles native raised in Compton who was the first in her family to attend college, Martinez began her higher education career at the University of Southern California where she served as assistant director in the Office of Admissions and Associate Director of Academic Affairs in the Computer Science Department. She was recruited in 2007 to work for UC Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering as its Graduate Student Affairs Manager, then worked for nearly two years at Palomar College as its Title V/Hispanic Serving Institution Project Supervisor providing leadership in supporting the retention and academic success of Hispanic and low-income students at the San Marcos campus.
Dr. Jenni Murphy
Dean, College of Continuing Education
Dr. Murphy has over 20 years of professional experience in the areas of training, operations, human resources, project management, marketing and education. She has had a successful and rewarding career at Sacramento State for the past 19 years and enjoys the opportunity to blend professional and personal activities to give back to her community. Throughout her career she has applied her professional background, personal characteristics and academic training to build and implement strategies that move organizations forward. She was the recipient of the 2018 American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Sacramento Chapter’s prestigious Chester A. Newland Academic Excellence Award for her leadership in the education of public administrators, was also one of seven “Women of Influence” honored by Sacramento State for outstanding leadership on campus and in the community and most recently received the 2019 Edward M. McAleer Jr. Excellence and Innovation Award from the California State University Commission on the Extended University.
Dr. Tera Reynolds
Black Student Success Center Faculty Coordinator, American River College
Dr. Tera Reynolds holds an Ed.D. from California State University, Sacramento (CSUS), in Educational Leadership & Policy Administration, and a Master of Science in Social Work from CSUS, a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice. She is also an alumnus from American River College, holding an Associate of Arts in Liberal Studies.
Since 2015, Dr. Reynolds has been a Faculty Coordinator at American River College. She has created programs to help transition students from high school into college and help new students get through the onboarding process. She currently serves as the Black Student Success Center Faculty Coordinator. She opened the 1st ever Black Student Success Center at American River College and coordinates outreach services to feeder High Schools in the area. She also teaches Human Career Development courses to high school students participating in Dual Enrollment and students in the Umoja program. Dr. Reynolds is the co-chair of ARC’s Black Parliament faculty and staff advisory and serves as the Black Student Union Advisor.
Before her career at American River College, she worked at Sacramento City Unified District as the Youth Development Specialist and the Prevention and Intervention Services Supervisor at Natomas Unified School District. She coordinated and supervised substance abuse/delinquency prevention, foster youth services, truancy, and intervention programs in both these positions.
Previous to her career in education, she worked as a Social Worker for the Children Protective Services and a Probation Assistant at Juvenile Hall. Her love and passion for helping students and families encouraged her to make the transition and do prevention and social justice work in the education system.
She is the mother of three children, a grandmother, and an auntie to many. She is a native of Sacramento and believes in giving back to her community.
Dr. Angelo Williams
Chief of Staff, California State Assembly
Focused on four key policy issues (Health, Education, Justice and Wealth), I've developed my career in public service, government, public policy, philanthropy, education, and executive leadership) from a social constructivist point of view. My goal continues to be the cultivation of individual human capital and strengthening social institutions that serve society.
To that end I have served in a number of capacities as an executive team leader and member within organizations dedicated to economic development and educational access including my tenure at the California School Boards Association (Ast. Exec. Dir. Of Policy and Programs), the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Program Officer), Cosumnes River College (Interim Dean of Student Services and Enrollment Management), at the California Community College Chancellors Office (State Director and Assistant Vice Chancellor), in the California State Legislature (Senate Education and Economic Development Consultant, Assembly Director of Legislation and Communication) and with HCDC (Principal Consultant).
For more than a decade, I've endeavored to reinvest what I’ve learned in government, public policy, philanthropy, education and leadership into the classroom as an affiliate and adjunct professor of Sociology and Ed Policy and Leadership for both graduate (at Drexel University and CSU Sacramento) and undergraduate ( Sacramento City College (West Sac Center, Davis Center) and Cosumnes River College) students.