Alicia Aguirre | President

Regional Member, North | City of Redwood City

Alicia C. Aguirre is the Mayor of the Redwood City Council. She was appointed in January, 2005 and was elected in November, 2005, 2007, and 2011. She also served as a Trustee and the President of the Redwood City Elementary School Board from 1999-2005.

She has served as the Chair of the Utilities Committee for the City of Redwood City and also serves as an elected official on many of the City’s committees and several regional boards in the County of San Mateo including City and County Association of Governments.

As an active community member, she has served on numerous community boards in San Mateo County. Some of the organizations she has served on include: Youth and Family Assistance, Latina Mentor Advisory Council of the San Mateo County Office of Education, Redwood City Library Foundation, Young Latino Leaders, Hispanos Unidos, the Mt. Carmel School Board and the Garfield Charter School Board. She also served on an elected statewide educational board. Alicia is Chair of the Redwood City Chamber Leadership Committee and member of the Educational Committee and the Government Relations Committee. Other boards include: Vice President of the Service League of San Mateo County, Chair of the Finance Committee of the Service League, President of the Sequoia Awards Board, President of Redwood City International, and Shelter Network Vice President. She is on the Executive Board of the Statewide Latino Caucus of the League of California Cities. She is Co-Chair of the Latino Leadership Council of San Mateo and serves as Treasurer of the newly formed Latino Political Action Committee of San Mateo County.

Alicia was inducted into the Redwood City San Mateo County Chamber Hall of Fame. She was named State of California 21st Assembly District‘s 2012 Woman of the Year by Assemblyman Rich Gordon.

Alicia is a professor at Cañada College. She has taught there for 23 years in the English Institute and the Spanish Department. She is Chair of the District Curriculum Committee and on the District Academic Senate. She holds an M.A. from Eastern Michigan University and has done Doctoral studies in Social Anthropology at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. She was a Fulbright Exchange Professor in Argentina.