About Alicia

Alicia has always been involved in making communities in which she lives a better place by engaging in activism from community organization to mentoring to policy formation. As a public school teacher (sixth grade science), Alicia understands education and the ways to improve it quite well. Additionally, as a former land use advocate, Alicia understands development and how to build real sustainable communities through strengthening developer-civic organization-local government interaction/relationships. As a former health policy staffer who served as the co-chair of the Congressional Universal Health Care Task Force Working Group, Alicia understands the need for and how to form public-private partnerships at the local level to provide affordable, universal access to health care for all Americans.

Currently, Alicia is a federal employee, working at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office , and she is very active in the Alexandria Community. Alicia is a member of the ALEXANDRIA EARLY CHILDHOOD COMMISSION, the ALEXANDRIA SOCIAL SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD and the ALEXANDRIA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUDGET ADVISORY COMMITTEE.   She takes great joy in reading to preschool children one afternoon a week at the HOPKINS HOUSE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER and working with our child residents, CHAIRING A LITERACY PROGRAM through which she reads and coordinates volunteers to read with young ladies who attend Alexandria City Public Schools at the DURANT CENTER on Cameron Street. Alicia also serves as a mentor to the same population of students in the Step-Up Program, a partnership between the ZETA CHI OMEGA CHAPTER OF ALPHA KAPPA ALPHA (of which she is an active member) and the ALEXANDRIA OFFICE ON WOMEN, which works to benefit inner city girls.

Alicia is also a member of the WASHINGTON JUNIOR LEAGUE where she is actively involved in the Leadership and Development Training Committee and is a LIFE MEMBER the URBAN LEAGUE (Northern Virginia Chapter) .

Alicia holds a B.S. in Biology from Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas and a J.D. from the University of Miami School of Law in Coral Gables, Florida, where her academic interests were concentrated in the areas of health policy, intellectual property and international and comparative law.