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Nate Nevado

Lecturer Faculty
Email: nnevado@sfsu.edu

Dr. Nate Nevado is a college counselor at Skyline College and also coordinates the CIPHER Hip Hop Learning Community, a program designed to provide students with an educational experience rooted in the aesthetics of Hip Hop culture.  Under this program, he founded the award-winning Rock The School Bells Hip Hop Conference which is aimed to educate youth and students about the importance of higher education and career exploration, increase awareness around personal development and healthy lifestyles, and provide tools and knowledge to promote social change within their communities through Hip Hop.  His professional and research interests revolve around examining how culturally responsive approaches such as Hip Hop pedagogy informs and impact college counseling practices specifically with traditionally marginalized and historically excluded student populations.