Nika Hogan

Pasadena City College

Nika Hogan is a Professor of English at Pasadena City College (PCC). She helped develop the First Year Pathways program at PCC, which was awarded the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office Award for a Student Success Initiative. Since an intensive period of learning and apprenticeship from 2007-2010, she has coordinated the college-level work on Reading Apprenticeship for WestEd.  From 2011-2023, she supported the California Community Colleges Success network (3CSN) to design and facilitate professional learning for educators across the 116 California community colleges. Her passion is building capacity and helping educators and students alike reach their full potential. She holds an MA and PhD in English with a focus on U.S. multi-ethnic literatures from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.