Jean Yonemura Wing, Oakland warrior for education equity, dies at 70
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The Arts and Humanities Academy’s class of 2012 honored Jean Yonemura Wing with a decorated utility box near downtown Berkeley. The Academy is at Berkeley High School where Wing was an alumna and later a parent.Leah Millis / The Chronicle 2017
Jean Yonemura Wing, a champion of equity in education, and a retired Oakland Unified School District administrator, died March 29. She was 70.
A Berkeley High School graduate, Wing earned her master’s degree in education at UC Berkeley. She dedicated her career to eliminating the education gap, District Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell said, beginning as a parent of a Berkeley High School student, where she served on the school’s diversity project, an effort involving teachers, parents, students and researchers to reduce differences in academic achievement from 1996 to 2002.