Raquel Alvarez is a stay at home mom and comes from a family who believed in being community service leaders. Her grandparents were involved with the democratic process by being poll workers and her grandmother was a member of LULAC in the early sixties and seventies. She is proud to be of Mexican-American heritage and the family culture that it teaches. Raquel’s husband has lived in Oceanside since the seventies and has gone through the OUSD school system graduating from OHS. Her son is currently in middle school and is in a hybrid program where he attends CBA in the morning and then Lincoln in the afternoon.