ABOUT
Educator. Author. Activist. Poet. Globetrotter.
Nathan Jones is an inspirational and passionate Associate Professor at Skyline College who enjoys the ethics of live learning, teaching and educating students from diverse populations and backgrounds domestically and internationally.
For more than twenty years in various educational capacities, he has instructed multiple disciplines in independent, private and public institutions at the middle school, high school, community college, and the four-year university levels; focusing on transitional and disproportionally impacted students using a unique anti-racism curriculum he specifically designed to analyze, reframe, and help his students understand their own experiences in the United States.
He has taught at Luxor Academy, an African centered institution and Saint Martin de Poress Catholic School, where he won the KTVU Teacher of the Year Award in 2002 and the Meyer Award in 2016 at Skyline College. He was the Coordinator for James Madison Middle School Mentoring Program where he established a Chess Club and French Club. He worked as a Mathematic Intervention Specialist at Glenview Elementary School, tutored a variety of subjects including English, French, Social Science, and History at Holy Names University/Upward Bound Program TRIO Programs, held the position as Director of Community Service at Marin Academy, and taught a series of Hip Hop related mini courses using hip hop pedagogy.
He has participated in many culturally related events and served on various committees, organized ethnic educational panels, led campaigns to bring guest speakers such as Dr. Cornel West, Dr. Joy DeGruy, MK. Asante Jr., Tim Wise, Shakti Butler, and Jimi Santiago Baca to Skyline College.
EDUCATION
Certificate for the Teaching of Post-Secondary Reading | May 2012 | San Francisco State University | San Francisco, CA
Master of Fine Arts, English and Creative Writing: Concentration in Poetry | May 2010 | Mills College | Oakland, CA
Thesis: “Excerpts From My Soul: Read Without Prejudice”
Certificate for Teacher of English To Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) | July 2004 | Oxford House College | Barcelona, Spain
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology | July 1995 | California State University - East Bay | Hayward, CA
Thesis: “The Myth of the Absentee African-American Father”