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Karina Talamantes

When Karina Talamantes 鈥11 espouses a value, she acts on it. A believer in education and the federally funded programs that guided her toward college, Talamantes ran a grassroots campaign for an open seat on the Sacramento County Board of Education and won in June. 鈥淪ince I was at 嘿嘿视频, I鈥檝e always been a community advocate, and I got politically involved in [the] 2016 election,鈥 Talamantes said. 鈥淚 understand how policy affects every single person in our country.鈥 She started her career as a special education sub and student translator, then worked at Yuba College and 嘿嘿视频 for Educational Talent Search, the federal program that helped her get to college, before moving to corporate recruiting. She now works as chief of staff for Sacramento City Councilmember Angelique Ashby 鈥99. A first-generation college graduate, Talamantes is one of five children born to parents who immigrated from Mexico and settled in rural Glenn County. As a high schooler, during two summers, she adjusted sprinklers in the almond orchard her father farmed. (He died in a work-related accident her sophomore year of college.) Another summer, she spent 10-hour days alongside her mother on a cannery assembly line searching for pits among the sliced olives. 鈥淚 did the work my parents did,鈥 she said. 鈥淚 wanted to see what it was like to be them.鈥

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