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Nini Hayes

Nini Hayes

Nini Hayes (pronouns: they/them/their/Professor Hayes/Dr. Hayes) was born and raised in Washington and is a first-generation college student. They are an alumna of Huxley’s Environmental Education program ’03. They earned a Masters in Teaching from Seattle University and taught 5th grade for several years before returning to graduate school where they earned an Educational Specialist degree in Social Justice Education and a doctorate in Teacher Education and School Improvement. After graduate school, they did a one-year post-doc at a college in Poughkeepsie, NY and then one year on the tenure-track before beginning at Huxley.

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