Highlights of Qualifications:
Carlos Provencio has been the Chair of the Democratic Party for Grant County, New Mexico and has been involved in getting out the vote campaigns, voter registration, training of volunteers, and program management. He coordinated citywide voter registration projects In Stockton, CA. and Phoenix, AZ for Southwest Voter Registration Project. He did Field Operations for Ben Chavez’s Campaign bid for Congress.
He fought for the unionizing of workers at Western New Mexico University and at the Grant County Solid Waste Authority.
He has done community organizing and empowerment in the Silver City area. Organizations that have benefited include the Grant Co. Jobs and Biodiversity Coalition in community based economic development, Southwestern Hispanic Roundtable in human rights advocacy, Sirolli Entrepreneurship & Economic Development in small business development, New Mexico Wilderness Alliance in environmental justice, New Mexico Public Education Department, Council on Excellence and Equity in school empowerment.
As a community organizer and political activist, Mr. Provencio coordinated the grape boycott for the United Farm Workers under Cesar Chavez in Stockton, California. He was the cofounder of People and Congregations Together a citywide community organization with the Pacific Institute for Community Organizations.
He helped legislate the funding of a health study for victims of water contamination in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In the city of Tucson, Arizona he mobilized the development of youth recreation in the south side and assisted with the process of targeting high drop-out rates and absenteeism of Native American children.
Organizations Carlos has worked with:
Aldo Leopold Charter School, Silver City, New Mexico
Southwestern Hispanic Roundtable and the Hispano Roundtable of Nuevo Mexico, Silver City, New Mexico
Successful Entrepreneurship & Economic Development, Silver City, New Mexico
New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, Albuquerque, New Mexico
New Mexico Public Education Department, Council on Excellence and Equity, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Campaign for Human Development, Washington, DC
Industrial Areas Foundation Affiliates Southwest
San Jose Community Awareness Council, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque Interfaith Council, Albuquerque, New Mexico
People and Congregations Together, Stockton, California
United Farm Workers, Stockton, California
Pima County Interfaith Council, Tucson, Arizona
Education:
He graduated cum laude from the College of Santa Fe with a BA and a major in Social Work and a minor in Philosophy.
Graduate work:
- Theology at the Berkeley Theological Union
- Social Work at New Mexico State University
- Organizational Development at California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco
- Religious Education at Seattle University
- Becas de Aztlan recipient: studied Mexican History, Culture and Anthropology from several universities in Mexico City including the Colegio de Mexico and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico
Special studies:
Community Organizing: Pacific Institute for Community Organizations, United Farm Workers, Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, Industrial Areas Foundation, and ACORN