Rene Licon is a Certified Financial Planner ™ practitioner who maintains a private practice in Fullerton, California. With over thirteen years in the financial services industry, Rene has helped many small business owners and individuals with their retirement and estate planning needs. In addition, Rene currently serves as Executive Director for the California Chapter of Air Conditioning Contractors of America (CAL-ACCA), a trade association dedicated to improving the operating environment for HVAC contractors in California.

As a volunteer, Rene dedicates his time and energy within his community by being active in numerous non-profit organizations. Presently, he serves as Co-Chair of Finance for the UC Berkeley Chicano Latino Alumni Association, Board Member for the Hispanic Outreach Taskforce, Board Member for SPIRITT Family Services and Advisory Board Member for the Urban Education Partnership in Los Angeles.

Rene received his Bachelors degree in Political Economy from UC Berkeley.

Betty Rengifo Tucker is Executive Vice President for Retail Banking Operation in the Western Market.

During her nineteen-year career in Financial Services, Rengifo Tucker has held senior level positions in Retail, Business Banking, and Strategic Planning. She is responsible for overseeing the retail banking centers network and operations for Comerica Bank within two states: California and Arizona.

Before joining Comerica Bank, Rengifo Tucker was Senior Manager for Business Banking, Merchant Services and National Director of Sales Integration and Market Development for Wells Fargo. She was also a director of business strategies for branch retail system in Los Angeles where she managed business and sales strategies for more than 300 branches in Southern California.

Rengifo Tucker speaks regularly to various Financial Services institutions about customer-centric strategies in the US and abroad. She helps to educate entrepreneurs and executives who maintain small businesses in the Western United States.

Rengifo Tucker currently serves on the Hispanic Employee Resource and Network Group & Market Segmentation Team at the bank, focusing on promoting inclusiveness and understanding internally, and supporting the company’s growth in these communities.

She contributes a substantial amount of time to communities, charities and nonprofit organizations. Rengifo Tucker also founded several Diversity-related initiatives, such as the Greater Los Angeles Diversity Council and was Co-Founder of several Team Member Resource Groups in LA and across the nation. These initiatives focused on career growth and community involvement for Hispanic team members locally.

Rengifo Tucker is President of the Hispanic Outreach Taskforce in Los Angeles. In addition, she is a board member of Junior Achievement of Orange County, Community Financial Resource Center (CFRC), and the Professional Network Group, which she founded in 1992.

Rengifo Tucker was the recipient of Pepperdine University’s American Spirit Award, for her outstanding professional achievements and dedicated public service to the State of California and Communities. She was also awarded a special recognition by the Colombian Government, for her service to the Colombian community around the country.

A native of Colombia, South America, Rengifo Tucker grew up in Southern California and speaks Spanish fluently. She is a graduate of the University of San Diego State, with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, with an emphasis on business. She received her Executive Masters of Business Administration degree from Pepperdine University, and is a graduate of the Consumer Banker’s Association Graduate School of Retail Bank Management, and the Bankcard Management School.

Rengifo Tucker and her family live in Chino Hills, California.

A local long time resident Rafael C. Flores of Whittier has been elected to the California Senior Legislature (CSL) as a "Senior Assembly Member".  The CSL is composed of 40 Senior Senators and 80 Senior Assembly Members elected as non-partisan representative California's 4.5 million seniors, CSL's purpose is to:

• Identify senior concern and issues.
• To develop legislative proposals in response to those concerns
• Advocate for the inclusion of those concerns in legislative proposals of the State Legislature
• Influence others to be more effective in influencing public policy on behalf of seniors

The CSL which was founded 1981, sponsors and forwards to the State Legislature at least 10 or more state proposals and 4 federal recommendations based on senior needs and issues.  To date, due to the actions of the CSL members, approximately 70% of the annual legislative proposals developed have between acted upon by the Legislature and signed into law.  Some examples include Nursing home issues, care giving, infections, housing issues, health care issues, economic concerns, Veterans, Safety, Senior and Elder Abuse issues just to mention a few of the many examples.

The members of the CSL are anxious to hear from you at:  www.4CSL.org

Mary M. Romero and five other Latina professionals and Victor Ledesma founded the Hispanic Outreach Taskforce in 1988 to assist Hispanics to access much needed services and resources in the san Gabriel area at a low fee or no fee. In order to provide educational services to the community, the Hispanic Outreach Taskforce incorporated into a 501 c (3) organization.

Mary Romero has been the Administrator of the Imperial Primary Care Medical Group from January 2001 to February 2005. She assisted four physicians being responsible for all administrative duties and supervising medical assistants, receptionists, X-Ray techs, interns and volunteers as wells as performing marketing and community outreach.

From 1999 to 2001 she was manager if the Beach Physicians Medical Group, assisting physicians with the responsibilities of all administrative duties and supervising medical assistants, receptionists, billing, X-ray techs and interns.

From 1998 to 199 she was the manager if the Women’s Health Pavilion of Corona, an obstetrical and gynecological practice with four doctors. She performed all administrative duties and launched a new practice.

Mary Romero also worked at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital I Whittier as an administrative director of the Family practice Center ( a residency program affiliated with USC school of medicine0 She was responsible for two budgets of over $2 million.  Her duties cover the administration of operations for clinic of 18 residents and 21 staff, interns, and volunteers.

Mary Romero is currently the Executive Director of the Hispanic Outreach Taskforce.

James is a retired government employee; he served Los Angeles County for over thirty-one years.  During the last seventeen years of his county career he served as Chief of Management Services.  James has an extensive background in Employee Relations, including Labor Negotiations and representing management in administrative hearings.   Currently James has been active in our city’s religious community and is the administrator at Destiny Community Church on Greenleaf Avenue in Whittier, CA.   James has a desire to help build a “Model City” where churches, business, government, community organization and the residence of the community could share “Common Goals”.  Our goals would be to provide greater opportunities for our youth, young adults.  We need to educate and inform our community residents about the importance of being part of a community, verses just a resident of a community.  James has a history of community involvement and volunteer services including Vice President of the Whittier Uptown Association, President of the Diamond Bar Foundation Group, Chairman of the Los Angeles County Volunteer Association and is a board member of the Youth Helpline Services in Bellflower, CA.

Yolanda Aguerrebere received her Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from California State University at Los Angeles. She continued with her philosophy of being a lifelong learner by receiving her Masters of Science degree along with her Single Subject Teaching Credential in Mathematics from the University of Southern California. She went on to attend classes at California Lutheran College for a special program in Counseling K-12 and eventually received another Masters of Science degree in School Management and Administration, along with her Administration Service Credential K-12 from Pepperdine University. She is currently completing the final year of her Doctoral Program in Organizational Leadership at Pepperdine University.

Yolanda Aguerrebere has over twenty-seven years of experience in primary and secondary Education, demonstrating her passion for working with children. She began teaching Mathematics at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles, her alma mater, where she was the MESA advisor. The MESA program provided support to minority students in an accelerated program in mathematics and science. Yolanda was also a Mathematics and Master teacher at John Adams Middle School in South Central Los Angeles. As the Chapter I Coordinator, she developed, implemented, and managed all Compensatory Education budgets. Eventually Yolanda became an Instructional Advisor for LAUSD Region G Administrative Offices, overseeing 46 elementary and 6 junior high schools. Three years later, Yolanda would become the Instructional Advisor for the newly formed LAUSD Middle School Unit, responsible  for instruction support and compliance in 80 schools. After two years, Yolanda moved  into school administration as Assistant Principal of Attendance and Discipline at Carver Middle School in South Central Los Angeles. She was promoted to Assistant Principal of Instruction at Griffith Middle School in East Los Angeles where she remained for three years before becoming the Principal at Belvedere Middle School in East Los Angeles, her alma mater.

To broaden her experience, Yolanda sought a position in a smaller school district. She was hired as Principal at North Park Middle School in El Rancho Unified School District, Pico Rivera. As Principal, she supported the North Park Middle School Band program in accomplishing what no other middle school band has ever achieved.  The band has performed in New York City’s Carnegie Hall twice, and they are the only middle school band in history to ever march in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade.  Under Yolanda’s leadership, the band has also performed in Canada, as well as in Florida, Hawaii, Nevada, Wisconsin and London, England.  At North Park, she was instrumental in implementing the AVID (Avenue Via Individual Determination) program and the MESA (Mathematics Engineering and Science Achievement) program. Currently, Yolanda is the principal at Selby Grove Elementary School in El Rancho Unified School District.

Yolanda is a member of many organizations: Soroptimist in Pico Rivera, ACSA – the Association     of California School Administrators, ASCD – Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, CALSA – California Latino Superintendents Association, CLMS – California League of Middle Schools NCSM – National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics, Pepperdine University Alumni, University of Southern California Alumni. She recently joined the Board of Directors for the Hispanic Outreach Taskforce (HOT). Yolanda also owned and operated a restaurant in Downey for 4 years in the late 1990’s.

Yolanda has attended numerous professional development seminars and is a mentor for CALSA.  She has received many awards and recently was awarded the DATAWORKS award as an Instructional leader for 2007.  California Business Excellence in Education awarded her for closing the achievement gap in 2007 at Selby Grove Elementary.  Yolanda participates in the site visitation team for California Distinguished Schools in Los Angeles and Orange County.

Yolanda Aguerrebere was born and raised in East Los Angeles. She is the eldest of five children. She was the first generation university graduate in her family. Yolanda lives in Placentia, California with her husband Richard, a contractor who owns and operates a heating and air conditioning company, Southwest Air Systems. They have five adult children and six grandchildren. They enjoy spending time with their grandchildren and traveling.