"Amber Arellano is the executive director of the Education Trust-Midwest. Most recently a columnist and editorial board writer for The Detroit News, Arellano has extensive experience in the worlds of journalism and public policy. In 2009 the National Association of Hispanic Journalists named her Commentator of the Year for what it called her “influential and crusading” coverage of Michigan education. Throughout her career she has covered immigration, politics and education in the Midwest, Southern California, and Mexico, and done policy work in the U.S. and Europe. She won national awards for her work as the Race Relations Reporter for The Detroit Free Press.
Arellano holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy, where she specialized in poverty policy. She studied at the Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico, and earned her bachelor’s degree in secondary education and journalism from Michigan State University.
She has taught and mentored students of every age, from elementary school to college. A Pontiac native and daughter of a community activist mom and United Auto Worker father, she is the first in her family to go to college. She is passionate about making sure all Michigan kids have access to great public schools—and a shot at their own American dream."
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