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

• "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
  2022
• Gender and Computer Science: Factors Influencing a Sense of Belonging in High School Courses
  AERA
  2022
• "Never going to be my family": Race, class, and belonging amongst first generation college students
  AERA
  2021
• Building CS Teacher Capacity Through Comprehensive College/High School Partnerships
  ACM Technical Symposium for Computer Science Education
  2021
• Cultivating Institutional Connections: Bureaucratic Challenges for First Generation Students in Small Liberal Arts Settings.
  American Educational Research Association
  2020
• 'I've Put Up a Fight to Make Myself Belong Here': First Generation College Students Crafting a Sense of Belonging
  AERA
  2017
• Structural Influences on Critical Civic Development: Comparisons Across Classroom and Youth Organizing Spaces
  AERA
  2016
• From Naïve Non-Participation to Transformative Civic Leadership: Towards a Model of Critical Civic Development
  AERA
  2015
• What Does it Mean to Belong?: First Generation Students Negotiating a Sense of Belonging in Elite College Settings
  AERA
  2015
• Fostering Aspirational and Practice-linked Identities as Critical Civic Leaders: Comparing Critical Civic Development in the Classroom and Youth Organizing
  AERA
  2013
• Agents of Change, Even When They're Not in Charge: Apprenticing Youth in Community-based Organizing
  AERA
  2012
• Apprenticeships in Power and Critique: Comparing Youth Critical Civic Development in the Classroom and Community
  AERA
  2012
• Came for Chips, Stayed for Social Change: Critical Civic development in a Youth Community-Based Activism Organization
  AERA
  2011
• The Links Between Care and Student Engagement: Care as a Key Component to Promoting College, Career and Community Readiness in Linked Learning Schools.
  AERA
  2011
• Practicing Praxis: Examining the Pedagogy and Student Outcomes of Youth Community-based Activism
  AERA
  2010
• Becoming Critical Civic Activists: Cultivating Transformational Resistance through Community Youth Organizing
  AERA
  2009
• Computing in Context: Low-Income Latino Youth in an Advanced Placement Computer Science High School Classroom
  AERA
  2008
• Mentoring partnerships in a community technology centre: A constructionist approach for fostering equitable service learning
  Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, vol. 16
  2008
• Mentoring Partnerships in a Community Technology Center: A Constructionist Approach for Fostering Equitable Service Learning
  AERA
  2007
• Building supportive communities of first-generation college students to promote successful first-year transitions
  American Educational Research Association
  Spring, 2018
• Examining how Youth Take on Critical Civic Identities Across Classroom and Youth Organizing Spaces
  Critical Questions in Education, vol. 8
  Fall, 2017

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

• Why Kids Love (And Hate) School: Reflections on Difference
  Myers Education Press
  2018