Victor Reinoso serves as the Deputy Mayor for Education. In that capacity, Mr. Reinoso serves as the principal policy advisor on education. He will ensure a coordinated education strategy for the District that focuses resources on improving student achievement and strengthening the role of schools as neighborhood anchors.

 

Prior to this assignment, he was elected as a representative to the Board of Education for District 2 in November 2004. He was the chief operating officer of the Federal City Council, a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to community development in the nation’s capital. He has also served as the Federal City Council’s director of education initiatives. In this capacity, Mr. Reinoso provided assistance and strategic advice to organizations working to improve the delivery of public education, early childhood education, youth services, and adult education.

A Ward 4 parent, Mr. Reinoso volunteers extensively in the District of Columbia public schools and serves as an advisor to a wide range of nonprofit organizations dedicated to improving public education and youth services in the District. He has worked in both nonprofit and private sectors in a wide range of entrepreneurial and management capacities. Mr. Reinoso has managed large-scale strategic planning projects, overseen change projects in large, bureaucratic organizations, and helped organizations launch new ventures. Mr. Reinoso was a founding staff member of the Fair Employment Council, now The Equal Rights Center, a DC-based civil rights research and advocacy organization under the auspices of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.