Governing Board Member, Area D — Compton Unified School District
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Governing Board Member, Compton Unified School District
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My Top 3 Priorities
A Voice for the Community: Roberto will strive to build and maintain working relationships between the Board Trustees, staff and community members.
Sustainable Development: Roberto will advocate for a responsible district budget to ensure that our tax dollars are used to meet the needs of the students, teachers, and staff.
Leadership for the Future: Roberto will support our teachers, staff, administrators to get them the resources they need to create inclusive schools and prepare students to succeed in a changing economy.
Experience
Experience
Profession:Teacher and Community Organizer
Social Studies Teacher, Youthbuild Charter School of California (2013–current)
Education
California State University, Dominguez Hills — M.Ed, School Administration (2018)
University of California, Los Angeles — M.Ed, Urban Education (2013)
University of California, Riverside — B.A, History and Ethnic Studies (2010)
Biography
My Beginnings
I was born and raised in South Los Angeles to two immigrant parents from Mexico. My siblings and I were raised with plenty of love and care, but very little money. In my family, education was seen as a path to success. My parents did all they could to ensure that we would succeed even regardless of what was happening in the community around us. During my high school years, I worked, ran track and organized for my community. It was this work in the community that fueled my passion for organizing for justice.
Education
I graduated Locke High School in 2006 and went on to the University of California Riverside where I earned a degree in History and Ethnic Studies in 2010.I saw teaching as a way to help transform my community. I graduated from UCLA in 2013 with a Masters in Education with the opportunity to be a credential teacher for my community. After teaching for 4 years, I went to Cal State Dominguez Hills to earn my Administrative Credential and Master is School Administration in 2017.
Teaching Experience
I chose to work with the youth that our education system has marginalized and pushed out due to personal and academic experiences. The youth of Compton reflect part of the conditions present in the community I was raised where students are witnesses to the daily struggle of people trying to move forward by any means necessary. The students I teach remind me of the young people I grew up with that wanted to move forward but the conditions in the schools and community did not support that to its fullest potential. The students in the school I work in have taught me that their stories and their traumas have lasting effects on their development; a lasting effect on their way of seeing the world. They have taught me that if we keep accepting the dominant narrative that is told of us, we accept and ultimately internalize that narrative.
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