Tonya Walls

Biography

 Tonya Walls joins Touro University Nevada as an assistant professor and emerging scholar in the College of Health and Human Services’ School of Education. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a Master’s of Science in Education with an emphasis in Reading Instruction from California State University, Hayward (now East Bay), a Masters equivalence in Educational Leadership from Mills College, and is currently completing her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in Multicultural Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Before joining the TUN faculty, she served as an elementary teacher, secondary teacher, literacy coach, literacy consultant, program coordinator, assistant principal and adjunct faculty, teaching Ethnic Studies for Nevada State College, and Multicultural Education and Reading Methods for California State University East Bay and Holy Names University in California.

Research Interest

Teacher preparation, culturally responsive pedagogy, equity and social justice, educational inequality and opportunity, race and education, transformational leadership, educational leadership and policy, school reform, and community-based social justice activism.