The first in her family to finish college, she came into teaching through Teach For America. She now mentors the Education Specialists who serve students with disabilities, and she is direct about how much of that work means undoing systems that were never built for those kids in the first place.

After serving as dean, school leader, program manager, she now raises the money that makes the rest of it possible — which she can do credibly because she has done the work she is asking people to fund. She began her career teaching in Peru and Ecuador.

She was the first in her family to finish college and studied how communities change. She is the reason things happen on time, and she holds that a win is not really a win until somebody brings dessert.

She runs recruitment and admissions for Marshall's teacher preparation programs. She also is a long distance runner, and started her own community garden.

At Gateway Public Schools in San Francisco, she found that the work she wanted was coaching the teachers, not only teaching the class. She now mentors interns who are earning a credential while already running classrooms of their own.

She taught high school English in San Jose, where she realized her passion for teacher preparation. She now mentors prospective humanities teachers as a Single Subject Humanities mentor for the residency. Sunli also coaches a neighborhood climbing team on the side to make sure the strategies she recommends to residents still work. Sunli enjoys being outdoors and climbing in her free time. 

She has taught and led mathematics in India and the United States as a department chair, a coach, a curriculum specialist, and a director of instruction. She now guides new teachers through California's credentialing benchmarks toward their Clear credential, work she has also done at Downtown College Prep, Amethod Public Schools, and Making Waves Academy. Her passion for educating girls has led her to volunteer her free time to building opportunities for girls in Chajul, Guatemala through an NGO.

She led the development of Summit’s Teacher Preparation Programs from initial design and accreditation to implementation. She believes every student deserves an excellent teacher, and every teacher deserves to feel empowered and sustained.

She now leads Marshall's improvement work, bringing educators and researchers together around problems schools have not solved on their own, including a multi-year collaboration on outcomes for students with disabilities. She is an avid hiker, native gardener and Latin dancer in her free time.

She began her career teaching in Canada, where she specialized in bilingual education and inclusion, before moving to the Bay Area where she served as a special education administrator and school leader. She now mentors new elementary teachers, supporting them in developing the knowledge and skills to create engaging, inclusive classrooms where all students can thrive.

She leads strategy and operations at Summit Public Schools, sits on the Core Planning Team, and partners with Marshall on revenue and the systems behind it. She describes herself as a connector, which undersells it.

He started in education coordinating a K-6 after school program, then became a founding History teacher at Everest Public High School, where he earned his National Board Certification and started the Expeditions Program. He opened Summit Olympus in Tacoma as its founding principal. He now leads Marshall Street. The through line is a belief: nothing in a school outperforms the adults in it, which makes developing them the whole job. Outside work he is on a long run or somewhere outdoors with his kids.

She helped design the Teacher Residency before it existed and now leads with the same values that grounded her as a coach — clear vision, ongoing reflection, thoughtful collaboration, and showing up when it counts.

She has been a founding English teacher at Summit Denali, instructional coach, school leader, and administrator of credentialing programs across California. She knows exactly where the process trips people up, and stays laser-focused on helping them navigate it while also guiding their growth in the critical early years of teaching.

The state named it a Center for Excellence. She has been Chief of Staff at Campaign Zero, worked at TNTP and Teach For America, and taught in New York and North Carolina. She now leads Marshall's leadership programs, which exist to help adults build schools marked by compassion, candor, and achievement.

A Bay Area native, she has spent her career on one thing: helping people who have not yet pictured themselves at the front of a classroom see that they belong there.

She went to Sonoma State, then Math II and AP Calculus at Summit Shasta. Somewhere in there she found she liked helping other teachers even more than she liked the classroom, which is how she ended up mentoring teachers at the start of their careers.