Meet the Staff
Jeremy Evangelista-Ramos (Acting Director of PSP)
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 19-207
Email: evangelistaj@smccd.edu
Responsibilities: Oversee the design, implementation, and evaluation of the
Promise Scholars Program
Albin Lee (Program Services Coordinator)
Pronouns: he/him
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 19-207
Email: leealbin@smccd.edu
Responsibilities: Outreach, Recruitment, New Student Onboarding, Residency Re-Class, Black & Brown Scholars, Transfer Support, Pathways Scholars (Part-Time Program), Intradistrict Transfer, Promise Incentives
Mikayla Balan (Retention Specialist)
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 19-207
Email: balanm@smccd.edu
Make a Calendly AppointmentCelia Arceo (Financial Aid Program Services Coordinator)
Kim Davalos (PSP Counselor)
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 19-206
Email: davalosk@smccd.edu
Make a counseling appointment from your mySMCCD Student Portal
Responsibilities: Create and revise Student Education Plans, Explore educational and personal goals, Assist with transfer and graduation requirements, Provide referrals and resources for academic, personal, and financial needs, Teach counseling courses, Lead Promise workshops and events
Dionicio Garcia (PSP Counselor)
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 19-206
Email: garciadionicio@smccd.edu
Make a counseling appointment from your mySMCCD Student Portal
Responsibilities: Create and revise Student Education Plans, Explore educational and personal goals, Assist with transfer and graduation requirements, Provide referrals and resources for academic, personal, and financial needs, Teach counseling courses, Lead Promise workshops and events
Kent Gomez (PSP Counselor)
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 19
Email: gomezk@smccd.edu
Make a counseling appointment from your mySMCCD Student Portal
Responsibilities: Create and revise Student Education Plans, Explore educational and personal goals, Assist with transfer and graduation requirements, Provide referrals and resources for academic, personal, and financial needs, Teach counseling courses, Lead Promise workshops and events
Rocio Aguilar-Pedroza (PSP Counselor)
Pronouns: she/her/ella
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 19-206
Email: aguilarpedrozar@smccd.edu
Make a counseling appointment from your mySMCCD Student Portal
Responsibilities: Create and revise Student Education Plans, Explore educational and personal goals, Assist with transfer and graduation requirements, Provide referrals and resources for academic, personal, and financial needs, Teach counseling courses, Lead Promise workshops and events
Mandy Lucas (PSP/TRiO/EOPS Counselor)
Pronouns: she/her
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 19-206
Email: lucasm@smccd.edu
Make a counseling appointment from your mySMCCD Student Portal
Responsibilities: Create and revise Student Education Plans, Explore educational and personal goals, Assist with transfer and graduation requirements, Provide referrals and resources for academic, personal, and financial needs, Teach counseling courses, Lead Promise workshops and events
Brianna Clay (PSP/TRiO Counselor)
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 05-5105
Email: clayb@smccd.edu
Make a counseling appointment from your mySMCCD Student Portal
Responsibilities: Create and revise Student Education Plans, Explore educational and personal goals, Assist with transfer and graduation requirements, Provide referrals and resources for academic, personal, and financial needs, Teach counseling courses, Lead Promise workshops and events
Janelle Reza (PSP/TRiO Counselor)
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 02
Email: rezaj@smccd.edu
Make a counseling appointment from your mySMCCD Student Portal
Responsibilities: Create and revise Student Education Plans, Explore educational and personal goals, Assist with transfer and graduation requirements, Provide referrals and resources for academic, personal, and financial needs, Teach counseling courses, Lead Promise workshops and events
Lucy Jovel (PSP/EOPS Counselor)
Student Services - EOPS|CARE|Calworks Skyline | BLDG 19-205
Email: perezl@smccd.edu
Make a counseling appointment from your mySMCCD Student Portal
Responsibilities: Create and revise Student Education Plans, Explore educational and personal goals, Assist with transfer and graduation requirements, Provide referrals and resources for academic, personal, and financial needs, Teach counseling courses, Lead Promise workshops and events
Melanie Espinueva+Aure (PSP/EOPS Counselor)
Pronouns: she/her(s)/siya
Student Services - EOPS|CARE|Calworks Skyline | BLDG 19-205
Email: espinuevam@smccd.edu
Make a counseling appointment from your mySMCCD Student Portal
Responsibilities: Create and revise Student Education Plans, Explore educational and personal goals, Assist with transfer and graduation requirements, Provide referrals and resources for academic, personal, and financial needs, Teach counseling courses, Lead Promise workshops and events
Andrea Hernandez (PSP Counselor)
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 19
Email: hernandezan@smccd.edu
Make a counseling appointment from your mySMCCD Student Portal
Responsibilities: Create and revise Student Education Plans, Explore educational and personal goals, Assist with transfer and graduation requirements, Provide referrals and resources for academic, personal, and financial needs, Teach counseling courses, Lead Promise workshops and events
Manuel Verdin (PSP/TRiO Counselor)
Pronouns: he/him/his/el
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 19
Email: verdinm@smccd.edu
Make a counseling appointment from your mySMCCD Student Portal
Responsibilities: Create and revise Student Education Plans, Explore educational and personal goals, Assist with transfer and graduation requirements, Provide referrals and resources for academic, personal, and financial needs, Teach counseling courses, Lead Promise workshops and events
Angelica Peña (PSP Counselor)
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 19
Email: penaa@smccd.edu
Make a counseling appointment from your mySMCCD Student Portal
Responsibilities: Create and revise Student Education Plans, Explore educational and personal goals, Assist with transfer and graduation requirements, Provide referrals and resources for academic, personal, and financial needs, Teach counseling courses, Lead Promise workshops and events
Nathaniel Nevado (PSP Counselor)
Student Services - Counseling Skyline | BLDG 19
Email: nevadon@smccd.edu
Make a counseling appointment from your mySMCCD Student Portal
Responsibilities: Create and revise Student Education Plans, Explore educational and personal goals, Assist with transfer and graduation requirements, Provide referrals and resources for academic, personal, and financial needs, Teach counseling courses, Lead Promise workshops and events