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In this episode our special guest is Daniel Lucio. Google Community Impact Manager.
Joining is Alyssa Valdez. She became an STYC member while a freshman at Weslaco High School. In 2015 at age fifteen, she was at the Texas Capitol with a group of STYC members to promote optic speed broadband for schools in South Texas.
Alyssa emceed the Dream Forward Charla dinner held in McAllen in 2018.
She led the meeting which set in motion the development of the Life Skills proposal.
Google Fiber-Austin
Community Impact Manager
Nov 2020 - Present
Daniel manages Google Fiber’s national strategy for social impact programs and investments, which focus is on creating digital equity and improving internet access for underserved communities in all of Google Fiber’s markets. This includes strategic initiatives and partnerships with nonprofits, governments, schools, libraries, and others to drive outcomes that serve our communities and our business goals.
Daniel is a native of the Rio Grande Valley and the first in his family to attend college. He earned a Bachelors of Psychology from University of Texas at Brownsville and his Master of Public Administration from Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
Show Host
Ana Ximena Sosa
B.S. Candidate 2024
Stanford University
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of the Dream Forward Foundation.
An IRS 501c3 organization operating in Texas.
Copyright © 2025 Dream Forward Foundation. All rights reserved.
iSol is an initiative STYC members have been working since 2014. It was developed during the first STYC meeting held in Corpus Christi at Del Mar College.
This led to two separate proposals presented to the Texas legislature in 2015 and again in 2017. Each proposal is reflected in a bill. The bills passed the House by a wide margin but stalled in the Senate.
The purpose of iSol is to bring super speed broadband to public schools.
Google Fiber-Austin
Community Impact Manager
Nov 2020 - Present
Daniel manages Google Fiber’s national strategy for social impact programs and investments, which focus is on creating digital equity and improving internet access for underserved communities in all of Google Fiber’s markets. This includes strategic initiatives and partnerships with nonprofits, governments, schools, libraries, and others to drive outcomes that serve our communities and our business goals.
Daniel is a native of the Rio Grande Valley and the first in his family to attend college. He earned a Bachelors of Psychology from University of Texas at Brownsville and his Master of Public Administration from Texas A&M Corpus Christi.
PROFILE
August 2020
Student Stanford University. B.S. Candidate 2024
Civil engineering major and energy resources engineering minor.
Three titles from your playlist:
Glory, by John Legend,
Where Is The Love? By Black Eyed Peas,
Parecen Viernes by Marc Anthony.
Book you would like to read again:
The Harry Potter series.
Best three movies/docu/videos you’ve seen this summer:
About time, Souls, Same Kind of Different as Me.
Three people you would like to have dinner with:
Michelle Obama, Paulo Coelho, and my 5 year old self.
A favored quote:
It is said that before entering the sea a river trembles with fear.
She looks back at the path she has traveled, from the peaks of the mountains, the long winding road crossing forests and villages.
And in front of her, she sees an ocean so vast, that to enter there seems nothing more than to disappear forever.
But there is no other way.
The river can not go back.
Nobody can go back.
To go back is impossible in existence.
The river needs to take the risk of entering the ocean because only then will fear disappear, because that’s where the river will know it’s not about disappearing into the ocean, but of becoming the ocean.
-Kahlil Gibran
Your thoughts on the times we are living in:
Thoughts? With physical distance most evident during the times of the pandemic, I also see the distance between our differences shrinking as people unite in solidarity across distinct causes.
Clip from Ron Nirenberg, San Antonio Mayor
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