Felix Galaviz is a co-founder and former executive director of the Puente Project, an academic preparation program with the mission of increasing the number of educationally disadvantaged students who enroll in four-year colleges and universities, earn college degrees and return to the community as mentors and leaders. The program has earned national awards and is sponsored by the U.C. Office of the President and California Community Colleges.
Galaviz has given numerous presentations on counseling and mentoring Latino youth. He serves on a national think tank for the Education Trust's counseling reform project and on the Hitachi Foundation's Yoshiyama Scholarship Committee. He has served as president of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Alameda County and chaired numerous community organizations.
In 1990, Galaviz was one of 50 Latino leaders invited to meet with President Bush to discuss Latino educational concerns in California. In 1995, he provided testimony to the President's Advisory Commission and White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans. In 1994, he was recognized with a resolution from the U.S. House of Representatives. And in 1998, he was recognized at the White House when the Puente Project was selected as one of 10 winners of the Innovations in American Government Award.
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