🎓 A Platform for Completion and Opportunity: A Bold Vision for LACCD

As your next LACCD Trustee, I am running on a singular, unifying goal: dramatically increasing student completion and transfer rates across our nine colleges. But I know this can’t be achieved with slogans or surface-level solutions. It requires bold leadership that connects student success to community, labor, and targeted support systems.

🎯 Completion for All: To and Through Community College

While we set a universal goal that every student completes and has the option to transfer, we must recognize that students face different barriers depending on their circumstances. That’s why I’m committed to targeted investments and differentiated support systems to meet the needs of all students, especially those historically underserved.

🥗 Meeting Basic Needs to Support Academic Goals

Too many students drop out not because of academic struggle, but because they’re hungry, unhoused, or caring for loved ones.

✅ I will champion investments in food pantries, housing supports, mental health care, and emergency aid.
✅ I will push for on-campus childcare and expanded evening/weekend services to serve working students and student parents.
✅ I will support partnerships with labor and nonprofit organizations to ensure students can access apprenticeships, job placement, and wraparound services.

👩🏽‍🏫 Centering Faculty and Student Voice

Our faculty and frontline staff know where students struggle and what works. But they are too often excluded from decision-making.

✅ I will fight for shared governance that values faculty and student input in identifying resource gaps and instructional needs.
✅ I will advocate for professional development and instructional tools that help faculty build inclusive, student-centered classrooms.
✅ I will support student-led research and feedback mechanisms to shape LACCD priorities and investments.

Faculty and students are co-creators of educational success. Let’s fund and empower them accordingly.

🧰 Investing in the Right Tools and Programs

Completion and transfer won’t improve without smart, targeted investment.

✅ I will prioritize funding for academic skill-building programs, including tutoring, writing support, ESL pathways, and re-entry services.
✅ I will support culturally relevant curricula and student engagement strategies that affirm identity, build confidence, and create belonging.
✅ I will push for clearer transfer pipelines and partnerships with CSUs and UCs that guarantee credit transfer and academic continuity.

🤝 Connecting Community, Labor, and Education

LACCD must be a bridge for economic opportunity in Los Angeles.

✅ I will promote union-backed workforce pathways that lead to good jobs and careers.
✅ I will work with community-based organizations to ensure programs are grounded in local needs and lived realities.
✅ I will advocate for dual enrollment, pre-apprenticeships, and CTE programs that build real-world readiness from day one.