Alexis Atsilvsgi Zaragoza

Alexis Atsilvsgi is a passionate Cherokee and Chicana activist in Higher Education, having served on multiple boards during the entirety of her college career. First as a Board Member on the California Community College’s Board of Governors and next as the 2020-22 Student Regent for the University of California Board of Regents. Alexis graduated from UC Berkeley with BA’s in geography and political science and researched “Understanding the spatial imagination of rural California and the implications of physical place in access to higher education for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC)”. She has worked for Education Trust-West and the California Community Colleges facilitating partnerships with California tribal communities.

She is currently a Community Economic Development Coordinator and Policy Analyst for the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources. At UC ANR, she is building a database for external partners to ANR with a focus on specialized areas and geographies, to facilitate collaboration across California.