Candidate for
Member; County Board of Education; Trustee Area 2

Dr. Alexandria Coronado has served Orange County's public school students since 1998, when she was the first Hispanic woman elected to the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees in the district's 100-year history. During her four years on that board, she assisted in the development of Oxford Academy, which was ranked the fourth highest performing school in the nation and first in California by U.S. News and World Report. Dr. Coronado also assisted in the development of the Scholar-Athlete Scholarship and Recognition Awards program, the Annual Celebration of Women in Sports program, and fought to keep music and arts programs in the schools.

She earned a Doctorate in Music Education from the University of Southern California, where her doctoral research was conducted in partnership with the Orange County Performing Arts Center and the Orange County Department of Education's ACCESS program, and helped provide the necessary statistics needed to obtain funding for Summer at the Center, a program for at-risk youth. ACCESS is recognized as an outstanding alternative education program by the U.S. Department of Education.

Dr. Coronado was elected to the Orange County Board of Education in 2002, was re-elected in 2006, and currently serves as President of the Board. As a Member of the Steering Committee for the Council of Urban Boards of Education, she assisted in producing three nationally-recognized research studies for our nations' most ethnically and socio-economically diverse public schools, titled, "Where We Learn," "Where We Teach," and "What We Think."

She is the statewide legislative chair for the California County Boards of Education, and served as an Executive Board Member of the Orange County School Boards Association for six years.

As a Member of the National Hispanic Caucus of School Board Members, she assisted in reaching Hispanic students across the country to promote their scholarship program, which targets Hispanic students who want to become teachers in our nations' public schools.

For the past sixteen years, Dr. Coronado has owned and operated an instructional music studio. Her music students won national and international competitions, and have been accepted to major university music programs. She writes about public education for examiner.com, and is the Treasurer for the University of Southern California's Thornton Alumni Association. She is Mother to a college freshman who attended Orange County public schools, and is working on her first children's book.