The special guest speaker this month is Debra Lucero. Her background and experience in the community will result in an excellent meeting. Her biography is below.
Debra Lucero
Debra Lucero, the daughter of a Latino teacher and school administrator, ran for county supervisor in Butte County and was elected in 2018. She represents District 2 - North Chico and Downtown Chico - the most urban and diverse
portion of Butte County.
Her experience includes two decades working in economic development specifically in agriculture, tourism, business, arts and culture. For two decades, she has worked as an arts administrator, running State/Local arts agencies in Butte and Shasta. In addition to running arts agencies in Chico and Redding for many years, she concurrently ran two public access television stations in each city. She developed these TV stations under the auspices of the arts agencies. Prior to that, she was a journalist for many years and a public information specialist for a Hispanic advocacy group in Washington, D.C., and owned her own consulting business.
She sits on the California State Association of Counties (CSAC) Board of Directors and is the Vice President of the Latino Caucus of CSAC. In addition, she sits on the following committees for the National Association of Counties (NACo) Board of Directors:
Vice Chair - Environment, Energy and Land Use Steering Committee
Vice Chair - Arts and Culture Commission
Chair - Resilient Counties Advisory Board
Vice Chair - Rural Action Caucus (RAC)
For many years, she has served on the following boards: California Arts Advocates (CAA); and the Californians for the Arts (CFTA). She formerly sat on a public media board that covered six Western states.
She is a proud graduate of CSU, Chico, and recently was the recipient of a Cahn Public Service Fellowship to attend the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., where she received a certificate of completion for the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program in July 2019.
She is a member of AAUW, Butte County Historical Society and Bidwell Mansion Association. She is married and has three adult children and her first grandchild.
