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2021 RISE Awardee

Highlights from 2021 RISE Awardee Melito Ramirez’ work include:

  • Over his 40-year career, Ramirez has worked for multiple school districts in over a dozen different roles such as migrant home visitor, summer school coordinator, special education secretary, and bus driver.
  • Ramirez conducts home visits, bridges the gap between home and school for Spanish speaking families, and works to secure the mental health and technological resources students need.
  • Ramirez helped to organize a night school in English and Spanish for adults.
  • Ramirez has supported students as they apply for and participate in youth leadership programs, as both a mentor and driver.
  • Ramirez is credited with diminishing tensions among rival gang members in the 1990s when gang conflict was high in the Walla Walla area by coordinating supervised evening and weekend activities.


   
Last Modified: 02/22/2022