Ms. Hsu

Ms. Hsu graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in psychology and completed her Master of Arts in English Education at Brown University. She has worked in a variety of educational settings, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Sesame Workshop, but what she loves best is being in the classroom. As her students know, Lillian loves to write and rewrite. She is also obsessed with hunting down books that her students will love.

Mr. Zarazua

Mr. Zarazua is in his fourth year at Unity, teaching various Social Studies classes. He currently calls Oakland home, but due to his father's career in the military, he grew up in Europe, Asia, and various parts of the United States. As an adult he continues to be passionate about traveling and learning about the world and has spent time in Sydney, Paris and Taipei.

His training includes an M.A. from The University of Michigan in Secondary Education. Before joining Unity High he worked various jobs, including an editorial position at a newspaper in Detroit, MI, and he's taught with organizations such as The University of Michigan's Program on InterGroup Relations and Stanford University's Upward Bound Program. His interests outside of teaching include music, travel, writing, and sports. As time permits he maintains a website, www.domingoyu.com.

For his classes Mr. Zarazua has students exploring different cultures and groups in society, how they interact with one another, and issues of power and privilege. He hopes that students will learn how to make positive changes in their own lives and their own community.

Mr. Treacy

Mr. Treacy is an Oakland, California-based teacher and visual artist. He was born in 1980 in Topeka, Kansas and was raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In 2002 he graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting and printmaking from the University of Michigan School of Art and Design. In 2004, Mr. Treacy relocated to California where he began his Masters of Fine Arts at California College of Arts.

During his two years of graduate study, he worked at Berkeley High School as a Teaching Artist in the school's photography, drawing and painting classes. In 2006 he received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from the California College of Arts in San Francisco. Also in 2006, Mr. Treacy received a grant from the Center for Art and Public Life at CCA to realize his project “Young Artist Explorers” with a group of adolescent artists in the town of Tlacolula, Oaxaca, Mexico. During his four-month residency in Oaxaca, he taught at the Casa de la Cultura in Tlacolula, and continued to develop his adventure based art curriculum. Jamie's devotion and enthusiasm for educating youth through the arts found a home at Unity High School in fall of 2006.

He currently teaches classes in Visual Art and College Prep to the school's eleventh and twelfth graders as well as a weekly after school art club open to students of all grades at Unity. In his first year at Unity High his students completed a 24 foot mural in the school's courtyard that celebrates Oakland's multicultural heritage.

Mr. Carter

Mr. Carter graduated from The University of California, Santa Barbara in 1995 wih a degree in Art History. After several years of writing in a number of capacities - journalistic endeavors, music reviews, online copy writing - he left the private sector to teach and to coach basketball. Mr. Carter currently teaches Algebra 1, Trigonometry, and Summative Mathematics at Unity High. He is an intern in the Holy Names teaching credential program. Mr. Carter will receive his Masters degree in Education from Holy Names in the Fall of 2007.