Tate Jawdat teaches U.S. History to 8th grade students in Oakland, CA, where they also run the Queer and Sexuality Alliance (QSA). As an openly trans educator at a public school, they are passionate about creating pedagogies that engage and expand students’ self-efficacy and to inspire and facilitate collective efficacy as architects of a just future. They are the recipient of the Integrated Civic Action Project Fellowship at UC Berkeley, as well as a recipient of OUSD’s 2023 Honoring Our Own Student Choice Award. They grew up in Iowa, the youngest of eleven children in an impoverished rural family. They earned an undergraduate degree in Political Science at the University of Maryland while working with foster youth in Washington, DC.