Jesse Moya

Professor Jesse Moya has taken on several roles as an educator, including: high school teacher; director of K-8 educational programs at Stanford University; community educator for adolescents in a youth activism organization; and a graduate teaching assistant and researcher at UCLA. Professor Moya's current research focuses on the learning and development that take place as urban Latino youth participate in community-based activism organizations. Other interests include equity in college access, with a focus on urban students’ opportunities to engage with advanced technology. Professor Moya has a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Education from UCLA.

My Siena Experience

My Teaching Philosophy

In the classroom, I utilize strategies to make lessons interactive and relevant to students' lived experiences. I believe that both students and the teacher should play an active role in the teaching and learning that takes place during any class session. My courses seek to foster student intellectual engagement with issues in education, equity and social justice.

What I Love About Siena

I like the relatively small course sizes that give students the opportunity to actively engage in classroom activities.

My Favorite Courses to Teach

I enjoy all my courses, but Introduction to Contemporary Issues has been a favorite

My Professional Experience

Articles & Book Reviews

• How a small college can make a big impact on High School CS
  ACM Technical Symposium for Computer Science Education
  2025
• Discovering Computer Science: A High School CS Course Co-developed by College & High School Teachers.
  ACM Technical Symposium for Computer Science Education
  2024
• "I Can Do That Too": Factors Influencing a Sense of Belonging for Females in High School Computer Science Classrooms.
  ACM Technical Symposium for Computer Science Education, vol. 1
  2023
• Building CS Teacher Capacity Through Comprehensive College/High School Partnerships
  ACM Technical Symposium for Computer Science Education
  2022
• Examining how Youth Take on Critical Civic Identities Across Classroom and Youth Organizing Spaces
  Critical Questions in Education, vol. 8
  2017
• Mentoring partnerships in a community technology centre: A constructionist approach for fostering equitable service learning
  Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, vol. 16
  2008

Awards & Distinctions

•  This award recognizes the contribution of a tenure-track faculty member in the School of Liberal Arts to the life of the college through outstanding service that exceeds the ordinary expectation of faculty at Siena College.
  Category: Service-University
  Siena College School of Liberal Arts, 2017
• Committee on Teaching and Faculty Development (COTFD) Pedagogy Fellowship
  Category: Teaching
  Siena College, 2014
• Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Award
  Category: Research
  UCLA, 2009
• Graduate School of Education & Information Studies Dean's Scholars Fund Fellowship
  Category: Other
  UCLA, 2007
• Lyons Award for Community Service
  Category: Service-Community
  Stanford University, 1997

Books & Book Chapters

• Popular Education in Brazil
  
  2024
• Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education
  
  2023
• Why Kids Love (And Hate) School: Reflections on Difference
  Myers Education Press
  2018

Presentations

• Advocates for students: The role of social capital and care in success after a college closure.
  2025
  American Educational Research Association Conference, Los Angeles, United States of America
• "Becoming Us: Preserving Quality Educator Preparation Programs in Challenging Times."
  2024
  New York State Association of Teacher Educators (NYSATE) Conference, Saratoga, New York
• Increasing Computer Science Teacher Capacity and Equity through a Research-Practice Partnership During COVID-19
  2024
  UCEA (University Council for Educational Administration), Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Gender and Computer Science: Factors Influencing a Sense of Belonging in High School Courses
  2023
  American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois
• "Never going to be my family": Race, class, and belonging amongst first generation college students
  2022
  American Educational Research Association Conference, San Diego, California
• Computer Science in Urban Public Schools & Higher Education
  2022
  CSForNY State Summit, Albany, New York
• Cultivating institutional connections: Bureaucratic challenges for first generation students in small liberal arts settings.
  2020
  American Educational Research Association Conference, San Francisco, California
• Building supportive communities of first-generation college students to promote successful first-year transitions
  2018
  American Educational Research Association Conference, New York, New York
• "I've put up a fight to make myself belong here": First generation college students crafting a sense of belonging.
  2017
  American Educational Research Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas
• Structural influences on critical civic development: Comparisons across classroom and youth organizing spaces.
  2016
  American Educational Research Association Conference, Washington, District of Columbia
• "What does it mean to belong?: First generation students negotiating a sense of belonging in elite college settings
  2015
  American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois
• From naïve non-participation to transformative civic leadership: Towards a model of critical civic development
  2015
  American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois
• Fostering aspirational and practice-linked identities as critical civic leaders: Comparing critical civic development in the classroom and youth organizing
  2013
  American Educational Research Association Conference, San Francisco, California
• Agents of change, even when they're not in charge: Apprenticing youth in community-based organizing
  2012
  American Educational Research Association Conference, Vancouver, Canada
• Apprenticeships in power and critique: Comparing youth critical civic development in the classroom and community
  2012
  American Educational Research Association Conference, Vancouver, Canada
• Came for chips, stayed for social change: Critical civic development in a youth community-based activism organization
  2011
  American Educational Research Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
• The links between care and student engagement: Care as a key component to promoting college, career and community readiness in Linked Learning schools
  2011
  American Educational Research Association Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Practicing praxis: Examining the "pedagogy" and student outcomes of youth community-based activism
  2010
  American Educational Research Association Conference, Denver, Colorado
• Becoming critical civic activists: Cultivating transformational resistance through community youth organizing
  2009
  American Educational Research Association Conference, San Diego, California
• Computing in context: Low-income Latino youth in an Advanced Placement Computer Science high school classroom
  2008
  American Educational Research Association Conference, New York, New York
• 2007 Mentoring partnerships in a community technology center: A constructionist approach for fostering equitable service learning
  2007
  American Educational Research Association Conference, Chicago, Illinois