Tressa Overstreet

Tressa Overstreet is executive director of college & career readiness with the Fresno Unified School District. She has served the Fresno community as an educator for over 25 years. In 2005, she was introduced to dual enrollment and began her collaborative work with Fresno City College.  She helped open Design Science Middle College High School and then served as principal, with the primary focus of serving first-generation college students and those most underrepresented in postsecondary education. One hundred percent of Design Science students are admitted to four-year universities, many with a STEM focus. Efforts to ensure access to transfer-level math courses led her to develop strategies, protocols, and systems of support to ensure student success. She strives to create and foster many K–16 collaborative partnerships in order to best serve the students of the Central Valley. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Fresno State University.