Atenea Americana - By Stanford Hispanic Broadcasting

Today we are talking with Jorge Pacheco Jr. He is a national award-winning teacher, appointed by the California State Board of Education to help the California Department of Education create Ethnic Studies curricula for the state in 2019.  Jorge, who is proudly indigenous, has been an elementary and middle school Native Studies and Spanish teacher in the Bay Area since graduating from UC Berkeley in 2013. In his role as an advocate for equity and public education, he is now working to close the digital divide for Santa Clara County as a Digital Equity Specialist for Community Health Partnership.  Jorge currently serves as President for both the Oak Grove School District of Education as well as the California Latino School Board Association or CLSBA, where he leads an organization that represents and fights for Latino students and school board members across the state. The CLSBA  is a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that Latino/a/x students have the best educational opportunities and resources av