{"id":23282,"date":"2020-11-04T20:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=23282"},"modified":"2021-01-08T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T20:08:57","slug":"mdc-alumna-wins-seat-on-miami-dade-county-school-board-in-district-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/mdc-alumna-wins-seat-on-miami-dade-county-school-board-in-district-9\/","title":{"rendered":"MDC Alumna Wins Seat On Miami-Dade County School Board In District 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kendall Campus alumna Luisa Santos <\/span>won a spot on the <\/span>Miami-Dade County School Board in District 9 Tuesday night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The 30-year-old <\/span>defeated Dennis Moss, who spent 27 years as a county commissioner but is terming out.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Santos collected 52 percent of the vote compared to Moss\u2019 48 percent during the general election after defeating three other candidates in the primary election in August.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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All Smiles: Luisa Santos poses next to one of her campaign posters prior to the primary election in August. AMANDA ESPOSITO \/ REPORTER FILE PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her campaign platform was based around mental health services for students, better wages for educators and creating better support systems in the classrooms.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI feel very happy and excited to get to work,\u201d Santos said. \u201c[I plan] to make sure that there is equity and access in this digital learning age, ensuring that we begin to work on mental health support for students. [We\u2019re having] a listening session throughout the entire district to make sure that we capture all those voices that we didn’t get to hear from in the campaign.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Santos entered the race last November as a political novice but had shown glimmers of interest in the political arena. In 2016, she appeared in a campaign ad for Hillary Clinton\u2019s presidential run, and in 2018, she worked the phone banks during Andrew Gillum\u2019s gubernatorial run.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Winning the District 9 seat was a personal mission for Santos, who grew up in the area attending Perrine Elementary School, Southwood Middle School and Coral Reef High School.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are challenges that faced District 9 specifically that I know from lived experience,\u201d Santos said. \u201c[It] feels so gratifying to be able to not only realize the potential of a great District 9 public education and what it can do for our students as it has done for me, but to also do a bit of work on the gaps that I see and saw as a student.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Santos emigrated to Miami from Colombia as an undocumented immigrant when she was 8. She attended the Honors College at Kendall Campus where she earned an associate’s degree in international relations in 2012.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a student at the College, she kept highly-engaged by attending the Washington and Salzburg seminars. Santos was elected as a student government president and interned in the office of former College President Eduardo J. Padr\u00f3n the summer before transferring to Georgetown University.<\/span><\/p>\n

She earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in political economics with a minor in education from Georgetown in 2014. That same year she founded <\/span>Lulu\u2019s Nitrogen Ice Cream<\/span><\/b><\/a> in Edgewater.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMiami Dade College poured into me and gave me opportunities, even while I was still an undocumented student, that really set me up for success,\u201d Santos said. \u201cI\u2019m really grateful to my public school education and to Miami Dade College for opening doors of opportunity, giving me knowledge, tools and training to be able to take on serving on the fourth largest school district.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kendall Campus alumna Luisa Santos won a spot on the Miami-Dade County School Board in District 9 Tuesday night.\u00a0 The 30-year-old defeated Dennis Moss, who spent 27 years as a county commissioner but is terming out.\u00a0 Santos collected 52 percent of the vote compared to Moss\u2019 48 percent during the general election after defeating three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":23283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2749],"tags":[63,1514,1613,2226],"class_list":{"0":"post-23282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-kendall-campus","9":"tag-alumni","10":"tag-school-board","11":"tag-miami-dade-county","12":"tag-district-9"},"yoast_head":"\nMDC Alumna Wins Seat On Miami-Dade County School Board In District 9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Eight years ago, Luisa Santos graduated from Kendall Campus. 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