Personal Biography:

Gasper Martinez is a Management Analyst for the National Farm Workers Service Center, a not-for-profit affordable housing developer. As a staff member in Housing and Economic Development Fund with the supporting role to the Executive Vice President, he has had the unique opportunity to work on a wide array of projects within the Development, Community Services, and Property Management departments.

In addition, he has also been able to have a contributive role in the development and implementation of strategic perspectives, organization-wide. The nature of his position requires that he is willing to wear many hats, most recently of which has required him to play a substantial role in providing information technology support and resources.

Gasper sees growing up in South Central Los Angeles, raised by his single mother, as a point of pride. He attributes a lot of who he is today and where his interests have taken him to the values and work ethic he developed as a youth. The desire to learn and a commitment to put his best effort in everything he did empowered him to be successful throughout his life. He was able to attend Loyola High School, one of the premier college preparatory high schools in the nation. He was accepted to and studied at Stanford University, where he pursued a B.S. in Management Science and Engineering. He continues to take his passion for growth and making a difference now in the various organizations, projects, and causes he is active in.

Goals:

Professional Goals

His professional goals involve being able to pursue his various business and industry interests. Whether it is entrepreneurship opportunities or real estate development, increasing technology access to communities or finding new ways to use technology to improve the learning process or even becoming a player in the development and implementation of green technologies, he wants to be able to have a positive and substantial impact in the various initiatives and projects he takes on. His professional career will be nothing near predictable, but rather will take him to new opportunities and new fields, always learning and always bringing a fresh and alternative perspective to his work.

Personal Goals

His ultimate personal goal include being able to really leave a legacy behind that others can build on. He wants to be able to inspire others to take his experiences and his legacy and create their own. Part of that legacy includes a commitment to family – he wants to find someone special to share his life with, have lots of children, create a lifetime of wonderful memories, and incorporate the family values his mom provided him and his three sisters growing up. In the short-term, he wants to continue pursuing opportunities that make him feel that his life is productive, whether it is pursuing his idea of a community technology center in his home neighborhood or pursuing more formal education.