Barbara Vallejo-Doten is the Regional Director for the California Global Education Project at CSULB, which offers a place-based professional development environmental education program, Teaching for Sustainable Communities: Empowering Eco-Literate Global Citizens that centers the U.N. Sustainable Communities and Cities goal #11, environmental justice and literacy, and global competence for K-12 educators. She is the 2021 California Council for the Social Studies Carol Marquis Global Understanding Awardee.