Daisy Gonzales
Daisy Gonzales | |
|---|---|
| Chancellor of California Community Colleges | |
Interim | |
| Assumed office August 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Eloy Ortiz Oakley |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Los Angeles Valley College Mills College at Northeastern University University of California, Santa Barbara |
Daisy Angelica Gonzales is an American academic administrator serving as the interim chancellor of California Community Colleges since August 2022. She was the deputy chancellor from 2018 to 2022.
Life
[edit]Gonzales was born in Los Angeles to an immigrant family.[1] From the age of two, she was raised primarily in foster care.[1][2] She was reunified with her parents on three occasions, ultimately leaving them for the last time at the age of 13.[3] By 17, she was emancipated.[2] Gonzales was taken in by her high school chemistry teacher, Patricia Barker, who encouraged her academic pursuits.[2] She attended Los Angeles Valley College.[1] She graduated from Mills College at Northeastern University with a bachelor's degree in public policy.[1][3] Gonzales completed a master's degree and Ph.D. at University of California, Santa Barbara.[1] Her 2016 dissertation was titled, Elected Bodies: The Maintenance of Occupational Sex Segregation in Elected Office.[4] Sociologist Beth Schneider was her doctoral advisor.[4]
Gonzales was a third-grade teacher in a dual-immersion program.[1] She worked as a budget consultant for the budget committee of the California State Assembly.[5] She also served as a principal consultant to its appropriations committee.[5] She was the associate director of the Policy Analysis for California Education.[5]
From 2018 to 2022, Gonzales served as the deputy chancellor of the California Community Colleges (CCC).[5] She was the acting chancellor from July to November 2021 while Eloy Ortiz Oakley took a sabbatical.[2] In August 2022, she succeeded Oakley as the interim chancellor.[2][6] She is the first Latina and the second woman after Diane Woodruff to serve in CCC chancellor position.[1][2] Sonya Christian was hired to succeed Gonzales in June 2023.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g Miranda, Mathew (January 25, 2023). "Top 25 Latino Change Makers". The Sacramento Bee. Retrieved 2023-05-14 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e f Smith, Ashley A. (August 11, 2021). "How Daisy Gonzales went from foster care to the top of the nation's largest system of higher education". EdSource. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
- ^ a b Mendoza, Sylvia (March 2022). "Deputy Chancellor Dr. Daisy Gonzales". Hispanic Outlook on Education Magazine. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
- ^ a b Gonzales, Daisy Angelica (2016). Elected Bodies: The Maintenance of Occupational Sex Segregation in Elected Office (Ph.D. thesis). University of California, Santa Barbara.
- ^ a b c d "Meet the Chancellor | California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office". www.cccco.edu. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
- ^ Burke, Michael (August 4, 2022). "Daisy Gonzales named interim chancellor of California Community Colleges". EdSource. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
- ^ Asimov, Nanette (2023-02-23). "California community college system names new female, South Asian chancellor". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2023-05-14.
- Living people
- Academics from Los Angeles
- Mills College alumni
- University of California, Santa Barbara alumni
- American academic administrators
- American women academic administrators
- 21st-century American women educators
- 21st-century American educators
- 21st-century American academics
- Hispanic and Latino American academics
- 21st-century American women academics