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Melody Gonzales '02

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Melody is Executive Director of the White House Hispanic Initiative, an office created by President Joe Biden’s Executive Order 14045 and housed under the leadership of Secretary Miguel Cardona at the U.S. Department of Education. The Initiative works to: advance cradle to career education, equity and economic policy goals in partnership with the White House, federal agencies and external stakeholders; lead a 21-member commission that was recently announced; run a federal Interagency work group centered in advancing equity and access to federal resources for the Latino community; and lead in-person and virtual public engagement efforts.
Melody earned her bachelor’s degree in communications from UC San Diego in 2002.
2024-2025 Trustees
- Sandra Timmons '81
- Leo Spiegel ’83
- Pradeep K. Khosla
- Jeff Silberman
- Pelin Thorogood
- Phyllis Epstein
- Matt Newsome '91
- Sherry Bahrambeygui '86
- Sara Baxter '90
- Laurie Black
- Deborah Bronston-Culp '80
- Grace Chui-Miller '93
- Una Davis
- Nathan East '78
- Bobbie Gilbert
- Melody Gonzales '02
- Antonio Grillo-Lopez
- Taner Halıcıoğlu ‘96
- Steve Hamerslag
- Martin Hartono '96
- Larry Hershfield
- Ralph Ho '94
- Andy Chedrick
- Sheri Jamieson '73
- Barry C. Johnson
- William Jones
- Alexander Khalessi
- James Kralik
- Kenneth F. Kroner, PhD '88
- Wendy Kwok '99
- Jeanne Lawrence
- Yufeng (Jeff) Li
- Bosco Luján, MBA '12
- Jerrilyn T. Malana '86
- Gabriela Manriquez, B.S. ’89, M.P.I.A. ’97
- Robert S. Marren '86
- James Moffatt '80
- Shelley O'Connor '83
- Morgan Dene Oliver
- James Ong, MD '89
- Miles Palmer, MA '78, PhD '80
- Greg Papadopoulos '79
- Rafael Pastor
- Harry Rady
- Sam Ramji '94
- Samara Reck-Peterson
- Lynn Schenk
- Tim Scott '87
- Munjal Shah '95
- Stephen Strachan
- Vickie Turner
- Drew Senyei
- Scott Wolfe
- Sally WongAvery '75
- Alfred Zollar, MA '76