Christy Rangel

I am deeply committed to serving my community through environmental advocacy and education. I currently serve as the Texas A&M International University Alumni Secretary, and I spent about 2 years working with Rio Grande International Study Center, the only non-profit environmental organization in Laredo, Texas, where I placed 18 out of 19 air sensor monitors in Laredo, Texas and El Laredo, Mexico. Before my environmental work, I dedicated over 25 years to education with Laredo ISD. I started my professional career teaching special education students in the social studies department. My last campus was at Early College at A&M International University, where middle school students jump straight into early college and attend TAMIU. As campus coordinator there, I had to be in charge of not only their attendance, their academics, their social services, and their behavioral needs. Sometimes I had to be a counselor. I helped my students with $45,000 of immigration services, and I helped them with housing, with food stamps, you name it. Earlier in my career, I was a probation officer with Webb County. Then I had my children, so I was a domestic engineer for 7 years and stepped out of the workplace because I was a mom first, so I put my career on pause. When my children were in pre-kinder and kinder, I went to substituting because I wanted that flexibility. While I was a substitute, I won Substitute of the Year. Although my title was substitute, I was actually doing reading intervention, and I had my own classroom. About 22 students passed for the first time their state exam. Recently, I ran for Webb County Commissioner Precinct 4 for the very first time. I did lose, but I'm very proud of myself because I had 1,488 residents vote for me, so I know that they want change. I'm not giving up - that might be my next venture, to run for city council.