Candidate for
Board Member; Southwestern Community College District; Seat 2

Jesseca Saenz-Gonzalez is the Chief Executive Officer of the San Diego Learning Center, an education services company she founded in 2001. She has worked in the educational field for over fifteen years and is committed to educating tomorrow's leaders while helping restore academic excellence for students performing below educational standards.

Jesseca graduated from Eastern New Mexico University in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology and Criminal Justice and immediately began her career working to help youth. She served as the top Center Director and Regional District Manager of a world-wide supplemental education corporation, where she received nation-wide recognition with the Center Director of the Year Award.

Jesseca's approach to business and life has been built on her philosophy of integrity, honesty, excellence and commitment to family and community. Her professional success has been hinged on a personalized approach to providing quality service, personal attention, and consistent follow-through with all of her students and their parents. Her desire to provide this attention of personalized service to helping students led her to establish the San Diego Learning Center [SDLC], one of the fastest growing supplemental educational centers in the region. Throughout the past nine years Jesseca has opened four additional locations throughout San Diego County and is currently both a Barona and a Viejas Community Educational Provider. At SDLC she has implemented unique programs and strategies to create a positive and nurturing environment that supports and sustains the academic and social development of all of the students she serves. Jesseca's philosophy of education at the SDLC is `to meet students at their level, diagnose their progress, and prescribe new learning'.

Jesseca believes in giving back. She is a proactive and committed volunteer and community leader. She has been a member of the San Diego County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce for the last seven years and was elected Chairwoman of the Board of Directors in 2010. In 2006 she was honored as the Entrepreneur of the Year and is an active member of the National Latina Business Women Association/The Latina Chamber, and is often invited to speak on entrepreneurial topics, most recently as the Honorary Keynote Speaker for the 2010 Annual Women Entrepreneurs Business Forum in Chula Vista, CA.

Jesseca is a loving and devoted wife of twelve years to her husband Duke and a mother of three children, Alessandra, Arramis, and Duke, residing in San Diego's south bay community. Her hobbies include cycling, walking, devoting time to nurturing her family, participating in her families extracurricular activities such as softball and soccer and lastly researching ways in which she can provide more helpful educational resources for her students. Her dedication to her family and to education is a part of the many reasons why Jesseca is running for Seat #2 on the Southwestern College Governing Board.