Executive Director Erica Rosales was assistant dean of admissions at Occidental College in Los Angeles. She also helped start the first charter high school in Los Angeles, where she was a teacher, a college counselor and principal.

 

After graduating from Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, she was a first-generation college student at Wellesley College—where she arrived on campus alone, carrying her own suitcases.

 

She went on to earn her master’s in education from UCLA. Today she indulges her passion for helping low-income, first-generation students pursue their higher education dreams.