Elizabeth Zamudio

Elizabeth Zamudio is Vice President of Education at UnidosUS, where she leads K-16 education programs, family and community engagement, and strategic impact work with the organization’s Affiliate Network. She is a senior nonprofit education leader with more than two decades of experience focused on family engagement, college access, and student success.

Civic Learning Is Career Preparation When Students Practice Agency

The Aspen Education & Society Program’s final Redefining Student Engagement session argued that civic learning and career readiness are not competing priorities but overlapping forms of preparation. Elizabeth Zamudio, Elizabeth Clay Roy, Jennifer Tran and Braden Chapman made the case that students develop the skills schools and employers say they value — communication, collaboration, problem-solving, perspective taking and civil disagreement — when they have real agency in schools, supported channels to influence decisions, and families and institutions that treat youth voice as part of civic life.

The Aspen InstituteMay 20, 202617 min read