Candidate for
City; City of Santa Rosa High School District

Omar Medina is the proud son of immigrant parents Jose Luis Medina and Ana M. Mejía. He was born in 1979 at Stanford University Hospital and lived in San Mateo, California for the first years of his life. In 1986 the family moved to Michoacan, Mexico where Omar attended the second and third grades at Benito Juarez Elementary. In 1988 the family moved back to the United States and in 1989 the family moved to Santa Rosa.

Living in southwest Santa Rosa, Omar attended Bellevue Elementary during his fourth and fifth grade years and Kawana Elementary for the sixth grade. After graduating from elementary Omar attended Lawrence Cook Junior High where his career in politics would begin.

At Cook Omar became the vice-president of the Mexican American Youth Organization. He would go on to become president and founding member of SOL (Socially Organized Latinos). During his freshmen year at Cook he was elected vice-president of the Associated Student Body through which he was also appointed to the Lawrence Cook SITE Council. During this time Omar was the only non-High School student to serve on the Latino Student Congress of Sonoma County. In 1994 he graduated from Cook and was awarded the Lawrence Cook Honor Award.

While at Cook Omar was selected to serve on the Elsie Allen High School Planning Committee, where he took part in selecting the school colors, mascot, uniforms and helped create a foundation for future students to develop. In 1994 Omar was voted the first ASB President for Elsie Allen High School and in 1996 he would be re-elected. Omar served on the Elsie Allen High School SITE Council for all three of his years there. In 1995 he served as the EAHS Commissioner for the California Association of Student Councils. In 1997 Omar became a member of Elsie Allen High School's first-ever graduating class.

During his time at Elsie Allen High School Omar had his first non-profit experience by serving on the founding Board of Directors for the Southwest Community Health Clinic. Omar served two terms representing the teens of Southwest Santa Rosa on the Santa Rosa Teen Council. It was also during this time that he had his first experience in developing public policy through the YMCA's Youth & Government Model Legislature Program at the capitol in Sacramento.

After high school, Omar continued his education at Santa Rosa Junior College where he would experience a new level of governing. He served as the Senator of Student Services, Vice-President of Organizations, and Executive Vice President. While at SRJC he gained valuable experience in educational bureaucracy by serving on various committees including the District Facilities Planning Committee, Presidents Budget Advisory Committee and the Calendar Committee among others.

In 2003 Omar graduated from SRJC receiving his A.S. in Liberal Studies. He transferred to Sonoma State University where he is currently attending as a double major in History and CALS (Chicano and Latino Studies).