CASA Board of Directors Olga Vasquez - Chair of the Executive Board Olivia Puetes-Reynolds - Vice-Chair of the Executive Board Maria Lourdes Duran - Secretary of the Executive Board CASA Management Personnel Olga Vasquez - Executive Director Celia Gonzalez - Financial Officer Rosalina Calderon - Outreach & Development Coordinator Brent De Bonis - Marketing Consultant
	Olga A. Vásquez, Chair of the Executive Board Olga A. Vásquez (Ph.D., Stanford University) is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, San Diego. She is an ethnographer of education with a focus on how language, literacy and culture affect learning and development among Mexican origin populations. She founded La Clase Mágica, an after-school project that partners UCSD and a community institution in a social action initiative to bring about change in the educational experiences of Spanish-English bilingual learners. Professor Vásquez is the lead author of Pushing Boundaries: Language and Culture in a Mexicano Community (Cambridge University Press, 1994) and sole author of an upcoming manuscript, La Clase Mágica: Imagining Optimal Possibilities in a Bilingual Community of Learners. She has contributed chapters to numerous edited volumes in the fields of education, bilingual education, literacy, and community studies and has published articles in various national and international professional journals.
	Olivia Puentes-Reynolds, Vice-Chair of the Executive Board Olivia is a 4th generation Chicana/Latina whose Mexican grandparents immigrated to San Diego in 1904. Although she is of mixed heritage, because of her coloring, she was always confronted/accepted as Mexican. It was very early in her life that she experienced the destruction of racism, an experience that has been a main life theme. It wasn’t until her involvement in MAYA, Mexican-American Youth Association, at Mesa College that she began to appreciate her heritage and who she was. After that point, she excelled. Transferring to San Diego State University, and becoming involved in MECHA, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan, and the Chicano community, she graduated as the first Chicana from the Economics Department. As a wife and parent she began her Masters Degree work in Public Administration, and subsequently her career in municipal management where she has to date 23 years of experience.
	Maria Lourdes Duran, Secretary of the Executive Board Maria Lourdes Duran has been working with La Clase Mágica for 10 years. She was recognized as a leader in her community due to her role as director of the Spanish catechism program at St. Leo’s Mission, the location of CASA. While her four children participated in the early stages of the program, Lourdes began her work as a parent volunteer. She then became a site coordinator and helped to develop CASA further through her experience within the community and by developing a component for the Head Start children. Currently as an executive director she has introduced CASA to the South Bay community and is helping to adapt the program to meet their needs.
	Rosalina Calderon, Outreach & Development Coordinator
	Celia Gonzalez, Financial Officer
	Brent De Boris, Marketing Consultant