Dr. G. Reyes is a nationally-recognized and community-engaged scholar-artist-organizer-PRAXISioner. As an Associate Professor and Co-Director for the Educational Leadership for Social Justice Ed.D. program and School Leader credential program at California State University, East Bay, his approaches to educational leadership development, research, and professional learning are rooted in critical, socio-cultural, & ethnic studies discourses that forefront racially-just, decolonial, culturally sustaining, and radical healing pedagogies.

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He has worked as a teacher and school leader in K-12 schooling, as an educator and organizational leader in youth development, and as a teacher education and teacher development scholar in higher education. In addition to his work at CSUEB, he coaches school leaders and is also a founding school designer and Board member for The FREEdom School of Homies Empowerment, which aims to welcome "home" formerly incarcerated, gang-impacted/involved, and school-marginalized youth to invoke and reframe the Warrior, Scholar, Hustler, and Healer within and toward a vision of emancipation and self-determination. 

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But at the end of the day, "Dr. G" is known for standing.  Standing up.  Standing with. Standing for.  Standing on the corner of the block professing truths and street wisdoms that don’t stop. Standing on rocks. Standing from seeds sown by those who came before.  Standing in concrete fields with new seeds in hand to plant more.  Roses.  He knows his place in standing in the pages of history is because history is not predetermined – it is a time of possibility.  Standing tall so he could see.  Standing to the side so you could be.  And become. He stands. He don’t run. He stands. But never in the back of the bus.  He stands because he must.