Jeffrey J Penichet

Bio

Jeffrey J. Penichet was appointed to the Board of Administration of the Los Angeles City Employees' Retirement System by Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa. Mr. Penichet has produced films, pioneered bilingual education publishing, and dedicated himself to public service. As a former teacher in Boyle Heights , he used his experience to start a publishing company, Bilingual Educational Services, Inc., one of the first publishing companies to provide Spanish/English curriculum materials to schools in Los Angeles and in the United States . His public service career includes a tenure in the Peace Corps, where he served as consultant to agricultural cooperatives in Peru. Mr. Penichet is on the boards of the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation and the California Association of Bilingual Educators, where he provides expertise as their financial advisor. He was a founding member of the New American Alliance (NAA), a national organization of Latino and Latina business leaders united to advance the American Latino community and board member of the NAA Institute, a sister philanthropic organization of the NAA. Mr. Penichet holds a master of fine arts degree from the University of California , Los Angeles and a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington.