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Gov. Jerry Brown appoints political science major as newest student trustee
Juan F. Garcia is appointed to represent nearly half a million CSU students
Governor Jerry Brown appointed Juan F. Garcia, to the California State University Board of Trustees on August 13, 2018.
Garcia, 19, is a resident of Rancho Cucamonga and has been a student at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona since 2016, where he has served as legislative affairs secretary of the university’s Associated Students Inc. since 2017. Garcia is also a member of the Kellogg Honors College.
Garcia has been an Advancement via Individual Determination (AVID) tutor for the Pomona Unified School District since 2017, a legal intern and Spanish translator at Tsang and Associates and an intern for Gavin Newsom’s gubernatorial campaign in 2017.
Garcia joins current student trustee Emily Hinton, and will serve as a non-voting trustee for the first year of his appointment.
The California State University Board of Trustees is the 25-member board that adopts regulations and policies governing the CSU system. The board includes two current CSU students that represent the CSU’s 484,000 students.