Gloria
Carranza
(Term ends 2008)
Gloria
B. Carranza was elected to the Board of Trustees of the MiraCosta Community
College District in 1995. In that role, she is a strong advocate
of innovation and the use of new technologies in education;
of fiscal stability and accountability; of the College’s importance
to the economic well-being of the region; of providing open
access and opportunities for success to the District’s diverse
student population; and of responding actively and boldly to
the changing educational, vocational, and cultural needs of
the community.
Before being elected
to the MiraCosta College Board, Gloria was the former Migrant
Issues Coordinator for the City of Encinitas. In that position,
she was instrumental in establishing San Diego County's first
Jobs Center for immigrant workers and is credited for attempting
to resolve, in a positive way, the delicate situations that
arose between immigrant workers and the Encinitas community.
A native of Southern
California, Gloria moved to Mexico after graduating from MiraCosta
College to continue her education at the Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México in México City and at the Instituto Tecnológico
de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) in Querétaro, México.
At the ITESM, she worked as Director of the Querétaro Campus
Library, Director of Faculty Resource Development, and Assistant
to the Vice-Chancellor.
Upon returning to
the United States, after living 18 years in México, Gloria
became well known in North San Diego County for her advocacy
within the Hispanic community, as well as in the areas of immigration,
human relations, and the plight of migrant farm workers.
Gloria served for
many years on the County of San Diego Human Relations Commission
and on the Advisory Board of the County Department of Transborder
Affairs. She remains active as a Community Representative on
the Juvenile Justice Program for the City of Carlsbad Police
Department, is a board member of SER/Jobs For Progress, and
has formed parts of numerous other civic and volunteer organizations.
Gloria holds a degree
in Business Administration and is a Certified Administrative
Hearing Interpreter/Translator, as well as a Certified Polygraph
Interpreter. Since 1983, she and her husband, Luis, have owned a business
- Inter-Lingua, a bilingual business support service providing
Spanish translation, interpretation, and bilingual assistance
to local and international companies.
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