Dalinda Gonzalez-Alcantar announces bid for South Texas College board

??Dalinda Gonzalez-Alcantar, CEO of the Boys & Girls Club of McAllen, announced her candidacy for the District 4 seat on the South Texas College Board of Trustees on Friday. A native of McAllen, Alcantar has over 10 years of teaching experience, most recently at Robert Vela High School in Edinburg. She graduated from Texas State University in San Marcos with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Communication Design before earning her Masters in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas Pan-American.

Soon after, she began her work in educational policy as an intern with state Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr., D-Brownsville, in his Austin office. “Her innovative approaches to affecting family communication in schools has led Gonzalez-Alcantar to receive numerous awards and recognitions including the McAllen Chamber of Commerce Innovation Grant, The United States Small Business Administration’s Innovation Through Technology Business of the Year for the Rio Grande Valley, Parenting Magazine’s Mom Congress Texas Delegate, The Rio Grande Valley Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Women of Distinction in 2016, among other honors,” her campaign announcement stated. Alcantar has spoken on numerous panels, including one at Georgetown University’s OWN IT Summit, where she joined Latina Leaders in the country, as well as at Texas State University’s Leadership Institute on the topic, “Leadership and Justice in the 21st Century”. On an international stage, Alcantar spoke at Austin’s SXSW conference and festival where she shared her experiences and research on the topic, “Minority Report: Engaging Kids of Color in Tech.”