Candidate for
Board Member; Gilroy Unified School District

Currently I serve as the Director of Student Affairs, Assistant Director of Admissions, and the Pre-Health Advisor for the Stanford School of Medicine, Primary Care. During the summers,I teach a Medical School Admissions Course and a Civic Activism Course to college undergraduates at Stanford University.

Some of my other responsibilities at the School of Medicine are; as a member of the Stanford School of Medicine Physician Assistant Program Admissions Committee, Stanford School of Medicine Minority and Disadvantaged Admissions Advisory Panel (MDAP), the Stanford Summer HCOP/SPSP Admissions Committee, the Stanford MCAT Academy Admissions Committee as well as many local and national political committees'.

For the past several year's,I have traveled thru-out the country working with and advising high school, community college, and four-year college students, conducting admissions workshops, leadership conferences, as well as recruiting educationally and economically disadvantaged students to pursue a career in politics, and medicine at Stanford University.

I also serve as the Chair of the Latino Leadership Alliance Leadership Academy that was recently established at San Jose City College in San Jose.

I have served on the following boards:

• The San Jose/Evergreen College District Board (Vice President)

• President of the California Association of Latino Community College Trustees

• The (CCCT) California Community College Trustee Board

• The California Community College League Advisory Committee on Education Services.

• The 2008 Gilroy School Bond Executive Committee

• The Gilroy Leadership Class of 2008

• The Gavilan College EOPS Advisory Board

• The Gilroy High School Boundary Committee

• Gilroy Voz de la Gente Group

• Gilroy Chamber of Commerce

• Gilroy Garlic Festival

• Little League, Travel Ball Manager, Gilroy Westside Grill Softball Manager

• Mentor for the EOP, EOPS, MESA , Enlace, and the Puente Programs, and other educational organizations at various high schools and colleges.

• Stanford University Excellence Award
• Enlace Program: Mentor Award
• Puente Program: Mentor Award
• Vietnamese Culture Association: Appreciation Award
• California Community College EOPS Award
• San Jose City College/Evergreen Valley College Appreciation Award