Adriana Barraza
Hi everybody! My name is Adriana Barraza. I’m thrilled to begin at HTH, teaching Spanish and the power of multilingualism. I grew up in the fields of the Imperial Valley, the daughter of Mexican immigrants. In this desert, I ran in the sunshine, and developed my love for nature, animals and hard work. As a […]
Alex Powell
HTHM
Michelle Babick
Hello, everyone! I am Michelle Babick, and I am thrilled to be working with each and every one of you as we explore the Humanities this year. This is my 10th year in education, and I could not be more excited to finally be back in my hometown of San Diego. After high school, I […]
Javier Arredondo
I was born in the small Northern CA farming town called Gridley. I attended UC Davis after and earned a degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering in 2012. I worked on a dam rehabilitation in Northern CA and eventually heard that the same company was wanting to expand their operations to San Diego to work […]
Ryan Urie
Ryan is an Eleventh Humanities at High Tech High Mesa. Ryan has been an Inclusion Specialist and Humanities teacher in his tenure with the HTH organization. He is a San Diego native who graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelors’s in American History. Ryan ran Cross Country and Track at Syracuse University, has coached Cross […]