Employee

Monica Olmedo has been a part of Chabot College since 2016, teaching in the English department. Her passion involves making the world of English writing accessible to all students, including language learners, and helping them use it as a tool for life. She has worked as an educator in the Bay Area, mostly in East Oakland, for over seventeen years. This work has led her to both empathize and fight for her Latino community, and other marginalized communities, since the struggles to reach higher education are very real. These past two years, however, she has left the classroom to work first as the HSI (Hispanic Serving Institution) faculty coordinator and now the Hispanic Serving Institution Interim Director, a role she embraces despite the new learning involved to help bring more Latinx/e into STEM. She is now returning to the classroom to continue making a greater impact on students' lives in academics, literacy, and literature as a catalyst for social change.