Ed González, Ed.D., Senior Advisor 

Dr. Ed González has a B.A. in Political Science, and an M.A. and Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, all from CSU Fresno. He began his educational career in 1982 as a classroom teacher in Madera Unified School District, and was nominated for the Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers five times during his 15-year teaching career. In 1997, he entered education administration and, during the next 20 years, served as a Vice Principal, Principal, County Office Administrator, Associate Superintendent, and the Superintendent of two districts over eight years. He retired from administration in 2017 and currently works as an educational consultant. 

Highlights of his administrative career include national recognition as Administrator of the Year from the School Library Journal in 2003, an invitation to address the Commission on Civil Rights in Washington D.C. in 2011 on issues of discipline disproportionality by race and ethnicity, and selection by Congressman Jim Costa to represent K-12 educators from the United States for a tour of Germany’s Vocational Education system in 2014. Ed was in the first cohort of Stanford University’s Executive Program for Educational Leaders (EPEL) in 2014 and served as an Advisory Board member for the Center for Applied Policy in Education (CAP-Ed) at UC Davis. Dr. González has been the subject of feature articles in both District Administration magazine and the School Library Journal. He is a member of the Central Valley Latino Giving Circle and remains active in the Fresno community, having served on the Boards of the Valley Cultural Coalition, the Girl Scouts of Central California South, and the Fresno Chaffee Zoo.