Ricardo Mireles

Ricardo Mireles is executive director of Academia Avance, a public charter school in Highland Park, Calif. Mr. Mireles initiated the development team for Academia Avance in the Summer of 2004, after spending four years at the Los Angeles Unified School District where he was part of the team that in 2000 launched the planning and construction of 160 new schools. Mr. Mireles has taught at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research, and at the Don Bosco Technical Institute. He completed a fellowship in public affairs with the Coro Foundation -- New York City in 1990, returning to Coro in the Summer of 1993 as a youth leadership co-trainer in the South Bronx. He is a graduate of the Don Bosco Technical Institute, has a B.A. in Anthropology from Columbia College, and has completed graduate work in urban planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.