Lupe Murillo
Editor’s note: Amigos805 is presenting a regular profile of the winners of El Concilio Family Services’ 2011 Latino Leadership Awards, to be presented March 26 in Oxnard. The awards this year focus on educators who make a difference in the community.
Lupe Murillo’s mission for the College Club is to promote a higher level of education for students at Pacifica High School in Oxnard. Throughout her teaching career, she has coordinated trips for students to universities throughout California and the East Coast and has assisted students in their efforts to receive National Hispanic Scholarships, the GATES Millennium Scholarship and other scholarships, allowing them to attend Harvard University, the University of New Mexico and Texas A&M.
Born in El Paso, and raised in Ventura, she earned her bachelor’s degree from San Francisco State University and her teaching credentials from California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks.
She was awarded the Willian E. Babbs Leadership Award at Pacifica High School in 2010.
Besides Murillo, the award winners being honored this year include Elmelda P. Almanza, retired from the Oxnard School District; Javier Gomez, founder of the Inlakech Cultural Arts Center in Oxnard; Carmen Guerrero, dean of Career & Technical Education at Oxnard College; Ventura County Community College Trustee Art Hernandez; Fundi Legohn, an educator, musician composer/arranger and the performing arts director at Oxnard High School.; Joseph M. Medina of CSU Northridge; Pilar Pacheco of California State University, Channel Islands; and Alex Rivera of Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
El Concilio Family Services’ annual Latino Leadership Awards gala dinner will begin with a social hour at 6 p.m., followed by the dinner program at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 26 at the Oxnard Performing Arts Center, 800 Hobson Way, Oxnard.
For more information, call 805.486.9777 or send an e-mail to events@elconcilioventura.org or visit www.elconcilioventura.org