Aurea Montes-Rodriguez

Aurea Montes-Rodriguez is the Executive Vice President at Community Coalition and has worked at the organization for more than 20 年. Born in Mexico and raised in South LA she developed a passion for creating change at the local level. Aurea has been a key leader responsible for building the organization’s youth programs to fight for educational equity, leading efforts to keep children in family care and out of the foster care system, helping to build organizing capacity in South LA, and leading a capital campaign to transform the organization’s headquarters in to a state of the art community hub for community organizing.

Aurea oversees the strategic direction of Community Coalition’s education reform campaigns to address the role policy plays in creating a more equitable society that can dismantle the school to prison pipeline and develop the next generation of leaders. She has provided leadership on campaigns seeking in-district reform at the LAUSD including, developing community informed solutions at Fremont High School after the school was reconstituted, developing and winning the adoption of a student equity index to direct Local Control Funding Formula dollars to the highest-need schools, and winning a settlement of $150 million for the 50 highest-need schools in the district.

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