Deborah Vallejo

Board of Directors

Debbie Vallejo is a lifelong resident of Stockton and surrounding communities.  She attended local elementary and secondary schools, San Joaquin Delta College, and the University of the Pacific where she studied philosophy and sociology.  She has a corporate background in sales and marketing and is currently Deputy Executive Director of TEAM Charter School in downtown Stockton, which she co-founded. 

She is the daughter of a Filipino immigrant, sent to the United States in 1927 at the age of 14.  Her father worked as a farm laborer to help his parents, brothers and sisters in the Philippines, and then to provide not only for them, but for his own wife and children in America. 

A major factor in the successes she has experienced in due to her father, and so many others who worked in the blistering heat with a short handled hoe, and who overcame many other obstacles, so their children would have opportunities.  Debbie is honored to serve on the Board of Little Manila Rising whose work helps to ensure the contributions of our ancestors to this, and other communities will be shared for generations to come.