Mackenzie King (M.Ed|she/her/hers) is a humanities educator at High Tech High Chula Vista where her class projects center on applying criticality to the justice system (with an acute focus on transformative justice, prison abolition, wrongful conviction, and critical justice pedagogy) and using the lens of science/speculative fiction to conceptualize new, liberated futures. Her work is informed by her former experiences as an organizer with groups like Students for Justice in Palestine, the California Innocence Project, and as an outside member of Initiate Justice. Her introduction to ethnic studies came via student leaders (shout out to Luz Victoria Simón Jasso, Ana De Almeida Amaral, and Iza McGawley) with whom she eventually partnered on her Master’s in Education work to bring ethnic studies pedagogy to all disciplines as well as to make ethnic studies a transcript-official course. She is excited to be part of High Tech High’s Graduate School of Education as a co-facilitator of the Positive School Culture & School Law. Outside of teaching, she loves reading, watching and talking about movies, and hanging out with her cats.
