Ofelia Arellano – Dean of Santa Rosa Junior College Petaluma urges proactive approach to meet changing needs

“Occupation: Dean of the Santa Rosa Junior College Petaluma Campus

Background: Arellano was born in Calexico, directly across the border from Mexicali, Mexico and was raised in El Centro. Arellano’s grandparents were migrant farmworkers; her father, Frank, was a retail clerk for Safeway; and her mother, Stella, was a farmworker. Arellano was the second oldest of their two boys and three girls.

She graduated from Central Union High School in El Centro and then attended nearby Imperial Valley College. She later enrolled at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she obtained a B.A. in psychology, with a minor in Chicano studies, in 1978, an M.A. in counseling psychology in 1980 and a Ph.D. in counseling psychology in 1988.”

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