Jaymon T Ortega
- 2019
Research Concentration
- Higher Education
Research Interest

Contact Information
Websites and Social Media
Advisor(s)
- Shaun Harper
Research Center
Bio
Jaymon Ortega is a doctoral student at Rossier School of Education and Graduate Research Associate with the Race and Equity Center. Jaymon's research areas include Black and Latino men, racial equity, community colleges, student-athletes, and empowering students of color.
Prior to USC, Jaymon earned his M.Ed. in Educational Counseling and worked at five community colleges in the Los Angeles area as a professor and counselor. Specficially, he worked with prospective high school students, Black and Latino men, first-year students, student-athletes, and student seeking career counseling. He also worked as an advisor with USC football and the Educational Opportunnity Program at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Awards and Grants
USC Rossier Dean's Fellow '16
Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT)
UC Berkeley NUFP Fellow '15
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