Luis builds strategic partnerships with senior leaders of national, statewide, and community-based organizations, educational institutions, and corporate foundations as well as providing policy support representing CLP at state level meetings and convenings.Luis oversees the development and implementation of technical assistance strategies across multiple CLP initiatives and projects. He coordinates a wide range of technical assistance and professional development activities to support innovative and effective teaching and learning in community colleges and high schools. Luis also provides team leadership and personnel management for the Career Ladders Project.

The Career Ladders Project (CLP) operates under the fiscal sponsorship of the Foundation for California Community Colleges, the non-profit auxiliary for the California Community Colleges. Through research, policy initiatives and strategic assistance to colleges and their workforce development partners, CLP works to strengthen the role of community colleges in fostering educational and career advancement for Californians. Established by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges (CCC), CLP works with state leadership and policymakers to promote expansion and replication of successful projects and to identify and implement systemic policy changes that can better support effective practices toward student achievement. CLP provides assistance to a range of community college-centered programs including the Career Advancement Academies a demonstration project of the CCC Chancellor’s Office, the Community College Pathways Project for Foster Youth, the CCC Linked Learning Initiative and other initiatives. More information is available at www.careerladdersproject.org As Senior Director focussed on policy and practice, Luis;• Oversees the development, management, coordination and implementation of technical assistance strategies across multiple initiatives and projects. • Supports CLP initiatives and programs, coordinating technical assistance and professional development activities to support innovative and effective teaching and learning involving faculty, peer experts, and leaders from community colleges and high schools.• Provides team leadership and personnel management for CLP.• Builds relationships and strategic partnerships with the senior leadership of national, statewide and community-based organizations, corporate foundations and educational institutions and provides policy support, representing the Executive Director at state level policy meetings and convenings.

Latino Institute for Corporate InclusionIn 2014, the Latino Institute for Corporate Inclusion (“LICI”) in partnership with the Career Ladders Project (CLP) for California Community Colleges completed an ICT Study into the talent pipeline challenges and impediments encountered by Latinos and African Americans pursuing careers in the Tech sector in California, publishing the report entitled “Information Communications Technologies Study.” It was highlighted by the CA Dept. Ed. Superintendent Tom Torlakson as a unique study that demonstrates the need for funding ICT/DM & STEM pathways projects around the state. The LICI, through its growing coalition of national Latino organizational members, is focused on driving an agenda of Tech inclusion in advancing Latinos into the world of software development, ICT professionals, designers and tech entrepreneurs in California and across the country.The LICI seeks to accomplish its mission through a combination of education, information, mutual cooperation and partnerships with educators, corporate executives, the Latino community, academia and the Tech industry. We are following the LICI ICT Study and building a community of action around addressing the diversity opportunity and challenge. In 2016, in partnership with several national and state organizations, the LICI launched the Latino Tech Summit, in Silicon Valley, a two-day conference designed to advance the relationships between tech companies, tech organizations and their Latino employee resource groups, educational partners, non-profits, and Latino tech professionals.The Latino Tech Summit is only one signature event that will begin year-round activity poised to support the building of a Latino Tech Community of Action focused on the advancement of Latinos into the world of software development, ICT professional, designer and tech entrepreneur in California. Adelante!

I am pleased to join the Puente Project State Advisory Board. I look forward to contributing all I can to match its legacy and powerful results. Adelante!