Santa Ana’s Jonathan Espinoza profiled in Hispanic Business Magazine

Just when you thought that Santa Ana’s Jonathan Espinoza could not possibly get more press…he has been profiled in Hispanic Business Magazine.  Kudos to Jonathan – his story is just incredible and it definitely is worth repeating.  Here are a few excerpts from the article:

Jonathan Espinoza, a senior at Segerstrom High School student in Santa Ana, Calif., thanks to Simon Scholars, has received a full scholarship to attend Georgetown University beginning in the fall of 2012.

Espinoza joined the New Port, Calif., based Simon Scholars program during his junior year. Founded by Ron Simon in 2003, the program emphasizes both strong academic performance and personal interaction with students to help them develop the self-confidence, self-esteem and academic advancement to succeed as the next generation of leaders.

The program selects scholars beginning in the junior year of high school and supports them both financially and experientially through their four-year college experience. Since its inception in 2003, the Simon Scholars program has awarded more than $15 million in program services and college scholarships.

Born to a single, teenage parent, and the oldest of six children, Espinoza saw education as a means to rise above the poverty around him.

Art Pedroza Editor
Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.
Art Pedroza

Our Editor, Art Pedroza, worked at the O.C. Register and the OC Weekly and studied journalism at CSUF and UCI. He has lived in Santa Ana for over 30 years and has served on several city and county commissions. When he is not writing or editing Pedroza specializes in risk control and occupational safety. He also teaches part time at Cerritos College and CSUF. Pedroza has an MBA from Keller University.

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  • Admin,

    I will work to keep the GOP a main party, and I wish to one day restore it to the party of Reagan and Lincoln and remind them what the party was founded on, what America is founded on, and show them that we too are people. Have faith in the GOP.

  • "Stanley is miserable, he hides behind a keyboard"..... Hmmmmmm

    Do you see how stupid and misinformed idiot you are?

    I am using my Real Name and my address is public here and elsewhere.

    I have been involved in Santa Ana politics since 2002 as candidate for city council, 2004 as candidate for city mayor, 2006 as candidate for city mayor, 2008 as candidate for city mayor.

    Finally, I have realized that you can't change Mexicans which is clearly evident by looking south of the border.

    However, I have never begged for money not even for my campaigns.

    I earn my money!

    In contrast you Mr. Espinoza are typical lazy begging Mexican hiding behind dysfunctional family and using your race for promotion and gaining from the affirmative action.

    I know you have said that you are against it but you have never rejected school tests winch are specifically design for people like you so you can advance.

    And that is the fact.

    FYI, I am not miserable and currently am helping Michele Martinez (Mexican) on her campaign. See http://orangejuice.ocsatire.com/Michele%20Martinez.html

  • "the party of Reagan and Lincoln and remind them what the party was founded on, what America is founded on"..... Hmmmm

    If the Lincoln would be life he would push Mexicans back to Mexico City as it was done:

    [On March 9, 1847, General Scott landed with an army of 12,000 men on the beaches near Veracruz, Mexico's most important eastern port city. From this point, from March to August, Scott and Santa Anna fought a series of bloody, hard-fought battles from the coast inland toward Mexico City. The more important battles of this campaign include the Battles of : Cerro Gordo (April 18), Contreras (August 20), Churubusco (August 20), Molino del Rey (September 8) and Chapultepec (September 13). Finally, on September 14, the American army entered Mexico City. The city's populace offered some resistance to the occupiers, but by mid-October, the disturbances had been quelled and the U.S. Army enjoyed full control. Following the city's occupation, Santa Anna resigned the presidency but retained command of his army. He attempted to continue military operations against the Americans, but his troops, beaten and disheartened, refused to fight. His government soon asked for his military resignation. Guerrilla operations continued against Scott's lines of supply back to Veracruz, but this resistance proved ineffective.]

    Learn your history by facts and not by your RINO socialistic propaganda.

  • Well Stan,I don't use the socialists tag but I agree with you, I personality get tired of Republicans think they need the minority vote. Minorties tend to vote more Democratic since they have less money. Blacks vote 95 precent for Democratics while both hispanics and asians vote almost 70 percent for dems. In OC, the only minority because of their anti-communists background that tends toward the Republicans are those in places like little Saigon. Personality, the Republician party failed in the state because it barely carries the white vote and the white vote is still the biggest voting block in the state but Republicans are told we must support Senator Rubio's legalization and Marco Rubio is doing with a hispanic Dem from Ill. Hispanics make less money than whites in OC and Hispanics children in cities like Anaheim and Santa Ana almost have 90 percent of their children on the free and reduce lunch program so of course they are more likely to vote Democratic.

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