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Welcome
We are excited to welcome you to the 27th annual STOMP Conference events. This year's theme is Reach Your Full Potential, focused on helping prospective transfer students live to their fullest. You never know how much you can achieve unless you try.
STOMP is primarily focused on prospective transfer students and transfer counselors and staff from California community colleges. This is your portal to view the schedule and access all of the event sessions.
Welcome Recording
Missed our virtual STOMP Conference? Watch a recording of the conference introduction from the UCLA STOMP team! This recording includes opening remarks from the Executive Director of Undergraduate Admission, Ffiona Rees, and a keynote address by Dr. Jeff Share.
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Meet our Keynote Speaker
Dr. Jeff Share
Senior Lecturer, UCLA School of Education & Information Studies
Ph.D., Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA
M.A., Media Literacy, Vermont College
B.A., Liberal Studies, Vermont College
A.A., Interdisciplinary Studies, Summa Cum Laude, Los Angeles Valley College
Jeff Share worked for ten years as an award-winning freelance photojournalist, documenting situations of poverty and social activism on three continents. In 1995, he became a bilingual elementary school teacher at Leo Politi Elementary School in Pico Union. After seven years, Share left the classroom to work as the Regional Coordinator for Training at the Center for Media Literacy where he wrote curricula and led professional development. He then earned his Ph.D. in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA and worked for a decade as faculty advisor in the Teacher Education Program at UCLA with new teachers in the master’s level credentialing program.
He now teaches in the undergraduate major in Education and Social Transformation as well as the minor in Information and Media Literacy at UCLA. Share also provides professional development training in critical media literacy with teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District as well as educators across the US and internationally. He has worked as an Educational Consultant in India and Germany, Visiting Scholar in China and Mexico, a Fulbright Program Specialist in Argentina, and a English Language Specialist in Poland, Hungary, and the Baltics.
His current research and practice focus on the teaching of critical media literacy in K-12 education. In 2015, Share published the second edition of, Media Literacy is Elementary: Teaching Youth to Critically Read and Create Media. He is currently researching the connections between climate change, environmental justice, and critical media literacy. In 2017, he published Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference with Richard Beach and Allen Webb. Working with Douglas Kellner, in 2019 they published The Critical Media Literacy Guide: Engaging Media and Transforming Education. In 2024, Share published, For the Love of Nature: Ecowriting the World and in 2025 he co-edited, Empowering Youth to Confront the Climate Crisis in English Language Arts.