Candidate for
Board Member; Cypress School District

Dr. Alexandria Coronado has served Orange County's students since 1998, when she was the first Hispanic woman elected to the Anaheim Union High School District Board of Trustees in the district's 100-year history.

During her four years on that board, she assisted in the development of Oxford Academy, which was ranked the fourth highest performing school in the nation and first in California by U.S. News and World Report. Dr. Coronado also assisted in the development of the Scholar-Athlete Scholarship and Recognition Awards program, the Annual Celebration of Women in Sports program, and fought to keep music and arts programs in the schools.



She earned a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the University of Southern California, where her doctoral research was conducted in partnership with the Orange County Performing Arts Center and the Orange County Department of Education's ACCESS program, and helped provide the necessary statistics needed to obtain funding for Summer at the Center, a program for at-risk youth. ACCESS is recognized as an outstanding alternative education program by the U.S. Department of Education.



Dr. Coronado was elected to the Orange County Board of Education in 2002, and twice served as President of the Board. She was elected to the Council of Urban Boards of Education Board of Directors in 2010 and served on the Urban Student Achievement Task Force. She assisted in producing three nationally-recognized research studies for our nations' most ethnically and socio-economically diverse public schools, titled "Where We Learn", "Where We Teach", and "What We Think." She served as Chair of the California County Boards of Education Federal Legislation Committee, and as an Executive Board Member of the Orange County School Boards Association for six years. 
 As a Member of the National Hispanic Caucus of School Board Members, she assisted in reaching Hispanic students across the country to promote their scholarship program, which targets Hispanic students who want to become teachers in our nations' public schools.



Dr. Coronado owns Crown Music Studios, an instructional music studio. Her music students have won national and international competitions, and have been accepted to major university music programs. She currently serves as Treasurer for the University of Southern California's Thornton Alumni Association and has had two children's stories published with the Tribune Company.

Dr. Coronado attended school in the Cypress School District and graduated from Kennedy High School in 1986. She sent her own daughter to Morris Elementary, Lexington Junior High, and graduated from Cypress High School. Her daughter is now in college studying textile design.