Nadia Leal-Carrillo

Nadia Leal-Carrillo is the Senior Director of Policy Development and Research of the Success Center, housed within the Foundation for California Community Colleges. In this capacity, she leads policy development, research and strategic planning efforts to advance large-scale, systemwide student success reforms for the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office. This current position truly enhances her passion for postsecondary education completion which is grounded in her own experience as first-generation immigrant college graduate. Her policy development and research work in the last two decades has focused on issues of access and equity for minoritized populations. Leal-Carrillo earned her master of public administration from the University of Southern California and her bachelor of arts in urban studies and planning from the University of California, San Diego. She earned her bachelor of arts in urban studies and planning form the University of California at San Diego, where she was a McNair Scholar, and her master of public administration from the University of Southern California, where she was a Sterling Franklin Graduate Fellow.