Juan Reynoso has been named Director of the Native American Student Support & Success Program (NASSSP) at San Diego Miramar College. Reynoso will lead the College's efforts to advance the success of American Indian and Alaska Native students at Miramar College while building and strengthening community connections throughout the region. In this role, he will lead grant initiatives to strengthen K–12 pathways into and through the CCC system, support transfer to UC and CSU institutions, and advance opportunities for American Indian and Alaska Native students to thrive at every stage of their educational journey. He will also help to develop Native leaders and expand Native mentorship opportunities for future generations.
Juan Angel Reynoso, nemuuly (bear), is shlaa (Two-Spirit) Ipai-Kumeyaay from the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians, one of several sovereign Tribal bands of the Kumeyaay Nation whose unceded homelands span the imperial U.S./Mexico border from present-day San Diego County south into Ensenada, Mexico, and eastward toward the Colorado River. A storyteller, teacher, and community weaver, Reynoso centers the voices and experiences of Indigenous-Queer kin across time—past, present, and future—through education, advocacy, and cultural celebration.
He is the co-Founder and co-executive director of The Queer Sol Collective, an Indigenous-Queer nonprofit based in San Diego dedicated to activating emergence, belonging, and collective healing within the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
Reynoso holds a master’s degree in Teaching and Learning, with an emphasis in curriculum design, and California teaching credentials from the University of California, San Diego, and is currently a joint-doctoral candidate at the University of California, San Diego and California State University San Marcos. He brings more than two decades of interdisciplinary and culturally grounded praxis into this role, including tribal operations, research and design, PK-12 education as a public school teacher, and community empowerment initiatives through nonprofit administration.
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