Story #24: Martin Galindo

There have been many instances where former JEP students discover a passion for teaching during their assignments and end up pursuing a career in teaching once they graduate. Some have even went on to teach in the very schools that they once volunteered in during their time at JEP. Martin Galando is one of them.

For a USC News article written in 1997, then Principal of Vermont Elementary, Galindo shared that he participated in multiple JEP assignments during his time at USC and that they ended up ultimately being the major factor in his decision to pursue education.

It felt special to him that JEP students were still coming into his classrooms at Vermont when he came back as principal and that it reminded him of his own time way back when. It made him remember how “JEP was a wonderful experience for me.” Since then, Galindo stayed in education, eventually becoming superintendent in different school districts in Southern California.