Meg Honey

Meg Honey (she/her) currently serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Kalmonovitz School of Education where she teaches in the Master of Arts in Teaching Leadership program. In addition to her work at SMC, Meg is a longtime Social Studies educator, currently teaching at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek and serving as an adjunct faculty member at University of the Pacific.

She is a dynamic and award-winning teacher who is deeply committed to cultivating inclusive learning communities, and she has written and presented extensively about social movements for liberation, LGBTQIA2S+ history, culturally responsive education, and antiracist pedagogy. Her work has appeared in Edutopia and The Social Studies Review. Meg earned a Master’s Degree in United States History at San Jose State University, is a certified educational trainer with the Southern Poverty Law Center, and was Mount Diablo Unified School District’s Teacher of the Year in 2017. A regular moderator for the Lesher Newsmakers Speaker Series, Meg has been in conversation with David McCullough, Martin Luther King III, Michael Beschloss, Abby Wambach, and Nikole Hannah-Jones. She is a co-founder of Rise Up Against Racism: a San Francisco Bay Area based 501(c)3 non-profit organization focused on implementing change through sustainable initiatives.