“Dr. Watson is extraordinarily amazing at inspiring and moving people, institutions, communities, and broken systems to a once unimaginable vision of collaborative beauty that can make the world better through education. She is a master architect!”

Dr. Crystal Velazquez

Coach & Project Manager for Placer Spring Work Groups, Sacramento State

“Equity-centered, community-based, thought-leader, social justice-scholar, Dr. Vajra Watson is all of these things and more. The American dictionary does not have enough dynamic words to properly describe the brilliance and essence of being in the presence and the teaching of Dr. V. She is a prolific thinker, designer, and achiever of educational access and scalable organization redesign.”

“Dr. Vajra Watson is the very epitome of scholar-activist: someone deeply entrenched in the community while ensuring that her research findings are put to work to make real change at the micro and macro levels. Her ability to translate and share her work with virtually any audience is remarkable and a testament to her scholarship and her humanity.”

“Vajra is a visionary. She inspires passion, creates spaces that foster critical conversation, and most importantly lifts people high! I am honored to have been able to work with her as my first real job after college and becoming a new mom, and to see her work continue to flourish is powerful. She is such a vibrant and loving force in the world. Vajra challenges norms and models healthy self reflection. Her attention to detail and commitment to performing and delivering top quality service is just how she rolls. She consistently brings her brilliance back to the communities she serves and has been part of. She forever lifts as she climbs!”

“Dr. Vajra Watson is a visionary leader and powerful way maker in this region. Her ingenious approach to challenging systems of oppression has shaped her commitment to engineering opportunities for intersectional organizing while simultaneously combating white supremacy. Dr. Watson has been exceptionally innovative in cultivating spaces of social justice, equity, and inclusion that coalesce efforts to produce a new generation of educators that collectively challenge institutionalized racism. Dr. Watson’s decades of scholarship and expertise in aligning university, school and community partnerships has created foundations and pathways for academia to be in service to the people.
As a scholar activist, Dr. Watson has displayed courageous leadership and brilliant innovation in her efforts to challenge institutions to be more in tune with the people and places that are often underserved. Dr. Watson is a force, a treasure, an inspiration and has given this region invaluable blueprints to envision a society free from the barriers of systemic racism. Dr. Watson’s invaluable scholarship is centered on empowering individuals and institutions to realize their collective power and responsibility to create a more humane world.”