Classified Employee of the Year, Oxnard College August 2020
Alumni
Gabriela Rodriguez is the Title V Grant Director for "Proyecto Éxito" at Oxnard College. She works closely with the Career and University Transfer Center to increase student success in their career and educational pathway. She is a proud graduate of California Lutheran University with a Masters in Education with a Guidance Counselor Credential and the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) with a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology. Ms. Rodriguez worked in the non-profit sector for 10-years, running a youth leadership development organization for high school and college students, Future Leaders of America. She has over 18 years of experience working to reduce the academic achievement gap and school to prison pipeline. In 2005, she coordinated international youth programs in Mexico City, including conversations about immigration, poverty, and education with Mexican Congressmembers. Gabriela is a trainer in Domestic Violence Prevention/Intervention, Sexual Harassment Prevention, Asset Development, Vita Navis Super Strong career exploration assessment among others.
From 2015-2021, she served as the Student Activities Specialist at Oxnard College. Providing Summer and Winter Leadership programming, she worked to engage students in shared governance committees, implemented the Basic Needs initiative, and worked closely to open the Dream Resource Center. She is creative in engaging students and has served on the Classified Senate board, Campus Use Development and Safety (CUDS) committee and is still the Quad-chair for our Guided Pathways Workgroup.
She is involved in various community organizations serving the Oxnard area and Ventura County as a whole. She is Vice President of the Oxnard Monday Club, board member of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Ventura County, serves on the Oxnard Police Department Chief's Advisory Committee, LUCHA Inc. as well as "I'm a Kid Who Can."