Julie Chavez Rodriguez
jrodriguez@cecfmail.org

Julie Chavez Rodriguez has worked with the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation for the past eight years spearheading their educational and service programs, namely the Educating the Heart School Program and the Chavez After School Service Clubs and has been certified by Youth Service California as a Service-Learning Coach.

Julie has been instrumental in developing and implementing professional development sessions for educators, youth, AmeriCorps members, and program coordinators on Chavez values, Service-Learning, and youth leadership. Through a partnership with the California Department of Education Julie served as lead consultant for the Chavez Foundation on the development of a standards-based K-12 model curriculum on the life, work, and values of Cesar E. Chavez. Julie also serves as a Service-Learning lead trainer in 6 school districts/county offices of education. Julie has been instrumental in developing school based and after school based Service-Learning programs. She has done extensive Service-Learning training on youth voice, program planning and reflection. Julie is a Fellow in the National Service-Learning Emerging Leaders Initiative sponsored by the Kellogg Foundation, the National Service-Learning Partnership, and the National Youth Leadership Council. She co-authored, along with Anthony Welch, the Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar E. Chavez: Legacies of Leadership and Inspiration for Today’s Civic Education Issue Paper published by the Education Commission of the States in September 2005. Like her grandfather, Julie believes that “the end of all education should surely be service to others.”