Sidronio’s commitment to positively transforming K-12 and higher education systems began as a student organizer in high school. He continued to advocate for leveraging education for self- and community empowerment into his undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley, where he double majored in Social Welfare and Latin American Studies. Today, Sidronio is steadfast in data-driven advocacy for equitable systems-level change in education. As a researcher and consultant, he has successfully executed research, evaluation, and assessment studies for research centers, non-profit organizations, government agencies, schools, community colleges, and universities.

Currently, Sidronio is a Ph.D. candidate in the Higher Education and Organizational Change program at the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. While at UCLA, he has served as a Research Analyst and Graduate Student Researcher for the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute, the UCLA Center for Community Schooling, and the UCLA Student Affairs Information and Research Office. He has also served as a Teaching Fellow for the UCLA Center for Community Engagement and the UCLA School of Education. Recently, Sidronio became part of the inaugural UC Davis Wheelhouse Summer Scholars program for his dissertation on Guided Pathways design and implementation in California community colleges. Sidronio has emerged as a mixed-methods researcher with qualitative, quantitative, and digital humanities training. He has presented and published on various topics in K-12 and higher education (e.g., research-practice partnerships, implementation of college-for-all policies, asset-based pedagogical practices in community colleges and graduate education) and different student populations (e.g., Black and Latinx students, student-parents, undocumented students, international students, adult learners, students from rural and urban settings). Overall, Sidronio understands first-hand the power of actionable, relevant, and reliable information and storytelling in decision-making, strategic planning, and organizational learning for colleges and other organizations in the higher education ecosystem. Yet, Sidronio agrees with bell hooks: “The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy.”

Sidronio has multiple streams of joy, including basking under the sun, indoor rock climbing, and watching his nephews and niece play basketball. Sidronio is most proud of being the son of two Mexican immigrant parents, being born and raised in downtown Los Angeles, and being an alum of the California public education system from kindergarten into graduate school.