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San Diego, California

Systemwide Director for Latino Achievement Initiative

Guadalupe is a first generation American of Mexican descent. Her mother is from Culiacan, Sinaloa and her father from Autlán, Jalisco. She is the oldest of four and the first to go to college. Corona received a bachelor’s in Mexican American Studies with a Minor in Women Studies at San Diego State University and received her master’s in Leadership Studies (Thesis topic: Soulful Chicana Voices in Leadership) from the University of San Diego. She completed her doctorate in Educational Leadership at the University of San Diego. Her dissertation titled, “Latina First Year Experience: Factors that Contribute to Persistence from the First to Second Year in Higher Education,” was comple