Youth In Focus

Board of Directors

Jonathan London
Jonathan London is director of the UC Davis Center for the Study of Regional Change and a senior researcher with the UC Davis Environmental Justice Project and the California Communities Program. His interests are participatory action research, social justice, and rural community change. He has a masters in City and Regional Planning and a Ph.D. in rural sociology. Jonathan is a co-founder and former executive director of Youth In Focus.

Tom Malarkey
Tom works for BayCES supporting the development of new small schools in the Oakland Unified School District. He specializes in equity-centered action research, organizational change, and building leadership and alliances across roles and difference. He is completing his doctorate through the UC Berkeley School of Education. Formerly, he directed Summerbridge San Francisco and was Senior Program Officer with Summerbridge National. He has a Masters Degree in International Development Education from Stanford.

Nancy Erbstein
Nancy is a co-founder of Youth In Focus. She has a background in educational research and policy with a Ph.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Education.