Dr. Nino Rodriguez

Dr. Nino acquired his Ph.D. in the Social and Cultural Studies of Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was trained as an inter-disciplinary scholar-practitioner. Currently, Nino serves as the Chief Operating Officer for the Excellence and Advancement Foundation – an Austin based non-profit organization dedicated to transforming how communities and families combat the school to prison pipeline – where he works with adolescents to develop their critical consciousness via experiential learning opportunities to empower them to become agents of change in their communities.