Leading the way to improve learning and teaching conditions
Kisha Borden, a veteran elementary educator in the San Diego Unified School District, is serving her first three-year term, which expires June 25, 2025. As the CTA Director for District P, Borden represents the educators of San Diego and Imperial counties.
Borden grew up in San Diego, graduated from San Diego schools, and began teaching in her district in 1996.
Her 25 years of teaching have all been at Zamorano Fine Arts Academy, near the neighborhood where she grew up.
Borden’s union activism runs deep. As a long-time union member, she served as her site’s union representative for 10 years, a board member, treasurer, vice president, and president of the San Diego Education Association. She also served on the bargaining team and member engagement committee. For her activism, SDEA honored her with a CTA “We Honor Ours” (WHO) Award.
“My years as a site representative taught me valuable lessons about organizing and empowering my fellow educators to fight for what’s right, for ourselves and our students.”
On the state and national level, Borden served for nine years as a delegate to the CTA State Council, the union’s top governing body, and served as a state and local delegate to the NEA Representative Assembly for seven years.
She earned her bachelor’s in science from UC Berkeley and her teaching credential from the University of San Diego.
Borden lives in San Diego.
Contacting Kisha Borden
California Teachers Association, P.O. Box 921
1705 Murchison Drive
Burlingame, CA 94011-0921
650-552-5329 Fax: (650) 552-5007
