Our 2022 League Annual Meeting
Lisa McLain | Published on 5/23/2022
At the 2022 Annual Meeting, June 11th at 10:00am, our Los Altos Mountain View members will learn what the league has been doing, our priorities for next year and elect new officers.
Our guest speaker, Julie Yick, Ed.D., will lead a discussion about working together with students to promote civic engagement in our communities. Dr. Yick will share her thoughts about building bridges between communities followed by the perspectives of two students who are dedicated to civic engagement, community service, and social justice.
Attendees will brainstorm how our League can connect with youth to promote civic involvement and a lifelong commitment to voting. We encourage members to join us for this important conversation.
Julie Yick Wong Koppel, Ed.D is a a social studies teacher and educational leader in the Mountain View Los Altos School District. She has taught and directed educational programs in highly diverse communities throughout California, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. She currently teaches at Mountain View High School and is the MVLA Ethnic Studies Curriculum Task Force Chair. She has an extensive background in curriculum design, multicultural education, literacy development programs, and teaching multilingual learners.
Julie is passionate about international education and has taken on leadership roles in the education and non-profit sectors. While living in Oaxaca, Mexico, she directed youth programs in rural, indigenous communities, carried out research and evaluation of sustainable development programs, and taught English and political science at the Universidad Vasconcelos.
Julie holds a Bachelor of Arts in government from Harvard University, a Master of Arts in Education and teaching credential from Stanford University, and a Doctorate in Educational Leadership from San Francisco State University. She recently completed doctoral research on high school Ethnic Studies teaching and her dissertation is entitled Ethnic Studies and Creating Transformative Change in California Schools.