Lorena “Lorraine” Pulido, Ph.D.
Public Service
Dr. Lorraine Pulido’s career is centered on communicating the possibilities to her audiences through expert public relations.
All the while, she has taught at various colleges, like Palo Alto College, UTSA, Our Lady of the Lake, and Texas A&M – San Antonio.
She serves as VIA’s communications manager, where her work has been honored with awards for campaigns that keep San Antonio moving.
But her most recent accomplishments speak the most towards her commitment to public service: She serves as an elected official on the Alamo Colleges Board, and as a City Council appointee to the Brooks Board.
The journey to her success is nothing short of extraordinary. She became pregnant at 16 and had her daughter her senior year at Harlandale High.
Taking her infant with her, she went to the University of Pennsylvania, becoming a founding sister of Sigma Lambda Upsilon/Señoritas Latinas Unidas Sorority, and then earned her master’s from Columbia University before returning home to earn a doctorate in leadership studies from Our Lady of the Lake while juggling a full-time job and family, including her son, who was born during the program.
Her subsequent work has always been paralleled with volunteering, and mentoring others. She has a devoted ex-student network, including hundreds who have gone on to work in the very fields she trained them for, including Express-News, City of San Antonio, Palo Alto College, Univision, and KENS-TV.
Throughout her life, Dr. Pulido has taken the spirit of empowerment and public service, and pushed it one step farther to help uplift countless others.
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