👩🏽‍🏫 Educator 🤝🏽 Organizer 💃🏽 Dancer

I'm Priya (she/they), an Oakland-based Computer Science teacher at Elmhurst United Middle School (and incoming Algebra 1 teacher at Oakland Tech). I'm driven by transformative storytelling, collective dreaming, community power building... and coffee. 😋

After studying Computer Science and South Asian Studies at Stanford, I worked as a software engineer at public transit start-up Remix and then as a worker-owner at political tech cooperative Poltiics Rewired.

Now, as a public school teacher, I strive to bring social justice, restorative practices, and creative problem-solving into my classroom every day.

Speaking & Writing
  • Bringing Discourse Practices from Math into Data Science - California Mathematics Council, December 2024
  • The Strategies We Need - Kernel Magazine, September 2023
  • Get Hired as a Public Interest Technologist - Grace Hopper Conference, September 2022
  • Tech Cooperative - All Things Co-op Podcast, October 2022
  • LA Helping Hands - KTLA 5 News, April 2020
Dance