Rogelio Medina

Rogelio has over 20 years of experience helping youth to fulfill their potential by developing and implementing programs that directly impact both participants and their respective communities. Since 1995 Rogelio has helped hundreds of low-income students from underserved communities not only graduate from high school but enroll in post-secondary education. A great extent of this work has taken place at a College and Career Center that he helped establish in Boyle Heights where he continues to volunteer.  Rogelio received his formal education from Carleton College as a recipient of the One Voice Scholarship award and a Ford Mellon Foundation Fellowship award. Rogelio graduated pre-med with Bachelor’s Degrees in both Sociology and Anthropology in 1998.  While an undergraduate a at Carleton Rogelio worked to charter CASA Del Sol.  CASA Del Sol’s mission was to recruit and support low-income people of color to apply and graduate from elite colleges such as Carleton. As Director of Post-Secondary Education and Training Rogelio has developed curriculum and programing that emphasizes how an investment in education and training creates lifelong opportunities. Rogelio has set up and overseen key partnerships with institutions of Post-Secondary Education like California State University Los Angeles and UCLA.  By developing programs like LA CAUSA’s U.C.L.A Green Summer Intensive Transfer Experience and Cal State LA’s Youth Summit, Rogelio continues to empower youth through education and post-secondary training.  In addition to working to establish the first City of Los Angeles College Career Center in Boyle Heights Rogelio was also responsible for working to establish and direct a Green College and Career Center which garnered recognition from the White House in 2010 for its work helping to provide youth and community members with the motivation information and resources to successfully enroll in Post-Secondary Education.  Additionally, Rogelio has managed Department of Labor, HUD, DJJ, WIA and Weingart Foundation grants with great success by meeting or exceeding their respective outcomes. Rogelio’s latest projects included serving as instructional leader and founder of LA CAUSA Youthbuild Charter School and working with former student Ely Flores in helping him establish his own   Leadership High School -LEAD in Lincoln Heights. Currently Rogelio works with low-income youth and communities across Los Angeles as Director of Educational Services for Dream Scholars and consultant for New Ways to Work.