Heather Murphy-Garcia

Heather Murphy-Garcia grew up in San Francisco and attended Catholic school from K-12. She graduated with honors from UC Santa Barbara with a major in Environmental Studies and a minor in Global Peace and Security. After graduating, she joined the Americorps National Civilian Community Corps and was stationed in Denver, CO, but worked a 13-state radius on educational and community projects such as habitat restoration and disaster recovery.

In 2000, she moved to Los Angeles to teach middle school science at Immaculate Conception School (ICS) in the Pico-Union. She went on to UCLA to join the Urban Planning masters program - but after earning her masters, her heart led her in another direction. She became a middle school teacher at Immaculate Conception in 2005. She was the curriculum director and intervention coordinator, as well as part-time middle school teacher, and later became the principal of Immaculate Conception.