Catherine Kearney, president of the California Teacher Corps, is the dean of the Teachers College of San Joaquin and the director of Teacher Development in the San Joaquin County Office of Education. She directs the Project IMPACT District Intern Program, an alternative route to certification program that includes teacher preparation for multiple subject, single subject, and education specialist candidates. Before that, she was director of an AmeriCorps program, classroom teacher (elementary, middle, and high school), professor, and doctoral fellow. Her research interests focus on teaching diverse students and youth in poverty.