Jacqueline Monterroso
Director of Policy and Advocacy @Latinos for Education
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Policy and Advocacy @Latinos for Education
MA, US
Spearheaded the Educator Diversity Act coalition, consisting of over 50 education organizations to advocate and organize in support of the Educator Diversity Act. In partnership with legislators, we got the Educator Diversity Act passed in November 2024, making this historic legislation the first of its kind in the nation! Latinos for Education is the first Latino-founded and led national organization dedicated to developing, placing, and connecting essential Latino leadership in the education sector, while mobilizing Latino voices to promote practices and policies that remove barriers to equitable educational opportunity.
EDUCATION
Sciences Po
Study Abroad Semester
University of Florida
Bachelor of Arts - BA
University of Miami
Master of Education - MEd
Semester At Sea / ISE
Semester Abroad
Leadership for Educational Equity
Policy and Advocacy Equity Leaders Certificate
ABOUT JACQUELINE MONTERROSO
Jacqueline Monterroso is the Massachusetts Director of Policy and Advocacy at Latinos for Education. Jacqueline is also the first Latina ever elected in Revere, Massachusetts where she currently serves as the School Committee Vice Chair. Previously, Jacqueline served as the Accountability and Dissemination Specialist in the Office of Charter Schools and School Redesign for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. She is a former kindergarten teacher, with a bachelor\'s in International Relations and Political Science and a minor in French from the University of Florida and a master’s in Education and Social Change from the University of Miami. Jacqueline is an alumna of Leadership for Educational Equity’s 2019 organizing fellowship and 2020 public policy fellowship. In 2018, she also served as a Bob Graham Fellow in the Florida State House. She is an alumna of the prestigious Gates Millennium Scholarship and the Hispanic Scholarship Fund and has been running her own scholarship for Latino, first-generation college students in Central Florida’s farm-worker communities since 2014. Jacqueline is a fierce advocate for educational equity, understanding the need to agitate when necessary and the need to always work “con ganas” to ensure all students have access to high-quality education and to educators and leaders who look like them.
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