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Born 1969 in San Antonio Texas, Erineo-Eddy Espinoza was diagnosed with a minor case of cerebral palsy. His parents (Erineo and Margaret Espinoza), however, challenged Eddy to develop into and experience the same success any child had the potential to experience. Eddy's father enlisted in the Marine Corp to provide Eddy the essential financial and resources to help Eddy to acquire needed physical therapy. Through a competent special education program and military medical assistance, Eddy successfully graduated high school and lettered in four varsity programs.

Eddy enrolled at Palomar Junior College, where he played football, won a co-national championship, and earned an associates degree. After receiving his degree, Eddy excepted a coaching position at El Camino High School where he won three CIF and on state championships. Eddy Espinoza identified his passion for  assisting youth from at-risk communities and located to San Antonio, where he served as a youth social service worker in the west side socioeconomic disadvantaged community. After four years of service, Eddy discovered an extended degree will enable him to assist disadvantaged youth in a professional, competent ability. Eddy accepted an academic scholarship to the University of Northern Iowa and achieved a bachelors degree in political science and social work. Rather accepting a scholarship at both Drake and Southern Illinois University Law Schools, Mr. Espinoza accepted an assistantship scholarship to the University of Northern Iowa's sociology graduate program.

While attending graduate school, Eddy Espinoza was the first Latino to be named president and editor of his university school newspaper and elected vice-president of the Hispanic-Latino Student Union organization, and he began to advocate t. Espinoza participated in field studies that collected data for publication concerning to health, social, academic, economic, and political progress of Latinos in the Midwest. Eddy's thesis, which focused on the academic success stories among Latinos in public school received strong reviews and became published in 2010.

After completing his graduate program, Eddy accepted a position at Governor Thomas Vilsak's Iowa Division of Latino Affairs. As a program planner, Eddy gathered and published statistical demographic findings and theoretical perspective to report the economic, healthcare, academic, and incarceration rates among iowa's Latino citizenships. Some of Mr. Espinoza works included assisting Iowa's state legislators to pass the translation house bill, which enables Spanish speaking citizens the right for a qualified translator for public services and state hospitals. Eddy also was one of the pioneers to assemble Iowa' s Dream Act, which allows undocumented Iowa high school graduates to pay affordable in state tuition.

After three years of state agency services, Mr. Espinoza dedicated himself to return o assisting socioeconomic disadvantaged youth as an educator. Based on his prior work with at -risk youth and published findings on competent methods to educate minority students, Eddy challenged himself to develop into a competent teacher and special education teacher.