Asali Waters-Rolleri

Senior Equity Leadership Consultant

awaters (at) nationalequityproject.org

Asali Waters-Rolleri joined the National Equity Project in 2017 after 24 years as an educator in public and independent schools. In 2016, she was a National Equity Project Leading for Equity Fellow. Asali is passionate about adult learning, instruction, and youth development, and is known for supporting learning communities with engaging in collaborative reflection, inquiry, and experiential learning.

Asali taught at Berkeley High School in Berkeley, CA, and Lincoln School in Providence, RI, and was an administrator for the San Leandro Unified and Oakland Unified school districts. In 2004, Asali joined Oakland Unified’s New Small Schools movement where she led the design and was a founding middle school principal. She was a district manager for Oakland’s K-12 Expanded Learning programs for ten years where she supported compliance, professional development, operations and the coordination of continuous program quality improvement in partnership with community based organizations.

Asali received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Brown University, and an Administrative Credential from California State University, East Bay. Asali was born and raised in Bakersfield, California. She currently resides in Metro Atlanta, Georgia with her son.