Congratulations to Jorge Luis Antonio Marquez Sanchez from Everett Alvarez High School! Our students make us so proud! Thank you to the wonderful educators at EAHS for providing a supportive and engaging environment for student success.
We wish Jorge the best at Harvard. Once a Puentista, Always a Puentista!
Aisha Rodriguez, Cesar Chavez Middle School
Alejandro Mora Leon, Pioneer High School
Brandon Leighton, Western High School
Dionne Coleman, Magnolia High School
Helen Chung, Loara High School
Javier Rojo, Pioneer High School
Marti MacInnes, Marshall Fundamental High School
Melissa Bowen, Rancho San Juan High School
Rosie Cardoza, Magnolia High School
Savannah Esquivel, Dale Jr. High School
Virgil Hart, Tennyson High School
Wendy Wise, California High School
We’d like to recognize Dr. Gustavo Flores, our very own Puente teacher from Norte Vista High School and Puente alum from Riverside Community College. Dr. Flores successfully defended his dissertation on “The Puente Project: Validation and Cultural Wealth Capital and Empowering Chicano/a Leadership Identity in Inclusive Academic Spaces.” His dissertation explored the lived experiences of what the Puente Project does at the secondary level in inside and outside of classroom spaces to increase the cultural wealth capital of Chicano/a students through validating acts.
Dr. Flores has 20 years of experience as an educator in Alvord Unified School District in the Inland Empire. His focus has always been empowering youth in education through curriculum and we are so lucky to have him in our Puente familia. Please join us in congratulating him!