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Victor Cota was named Director of Equity and Inclusion at St. Margaret’s in 2018, after previously serving as director of St. Margaret’s Breakthrough San Juan Capistrano program for three years.

A native of Orange County, Victor attended the University of Southern California and earned bachelor’s degrees in psychology and religion. In 2007, he moved to Houston as a member of Teach for America. He was a middle school math teacher and then a middle school principal at YES Prep Public Schools. In 2012, Victor earned his MBA from Rice University and his principal certification through the Rice Education Entrepreneurship Program. From 2015 to 2018, Victor served as the director of Breakthrough SJC. In this time, the program expanded to serve students from historically underrepresented backgrounds all the way through college graduation and launched an endowment to ensure long-term program sustainability. Through his journey as an educational leader, Victor has learned how to design school systems and environments to be inclusive and equitable, so that all students are known and loved for who they are.