Meet Jorge

Jorge was born and raised in San Jose to two working-class parents who cleaned homes and built cars to support their family. His mother escaped the Salvadoran Civil War and his Maya-Korean father left his whole family and ancestral village in the Yucatán Peninsula to give Jorge and his four sisters a chance for a better life. Despite nearly failing out of high school, Jorge went to community college and graduated from UC Berkeley—his family's first college graduate—and became a teacher to mentor kids who struggled in school just like him. From 2018 to 2024, he has served our community as your twice-elected local school board member at the Oak Grove School District making sure that no kid falls through the cracks as he did. Now, he’s ready to serve ALL of our students as your newly elected Santa Clara County Board of Education Trustee.