User:Kingisrey

Rey is currently pursuing his MPP from | Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government to understand the national and international context for education policy. Previously, Rey worked for five years at BUILD, a national college access nonprofit organization, where he designed and deployed business incubators and developed an expansion manual to facilitate BUILD's national growth strategy. He has over nine years of experience in project management for youth-serving organizations and four years of management experience, most recently as a site director at BUILD.

In his free time, he volunteers with College Summit, where he facilitates motivational workshops all throughout the country to help increase the enrollment rate of low income high school students. He also volunteers in the Philippines with Gawad Kalinga to fight poverty in his home country. Born in Manila to hard-working parents, he spent his early years in Manila and Hong Kong, and eventually graduated from high school in Southern California. Rey earned his BS in Business Entrepreneurship from the University of Southern California.

Rey was first inspired to fight for educational equity while he was in college. He was the co-executive director for the non-profit USC Troy Camp which takes 3rd through 5th graders from inner city Los Angeles to camp each summer.

Over the last eleven years of his experience in youth development work, Rey has impacted the lives of over 2,000 youth across the country. There is nothing that Rey sees more gratifying than watching one of his students grow up and work in the youth development field, too.