Bronwyn Lamay

Bronwyn Lamay has been a teacher, instructional coach, and administrator for over 20 years in the Bay area. She has taught middle and high school in Oakland, Hayward, East Side Union, East Palo Alto, and Santa Clara.

She has her PhD from Stanford in English and Literacy Curriculum, her MA from Mills College in Educational Leadership, and her BA in English from UCLA. A few years ago, she published what began as a literacy curriculum that she co-created with her students; it revolved around their self-narratives on the topic of love. The book, Personal Narrative, Revised: Writing Love and Agency in the High School Classroom, was awarded NCTE’s David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English for 2017. Bronwyn currently lectures in the Departments of English and Teacher Education at San José State, and has worked with the San José Area Writing Project as a teacher consultant and participant for many years prior to becoming its director.