The Impact Of Student Advocacy - Roberto Aguilar

We are celebrating National School Counseling Week! We talk with Roberto about ways that he builds great relationships at Milwaukie HS, and the role that authenticity plays in those relationships. He also shares about the impact that student affinity groups have had and how they started them. Roberto Aguilar is a proud, native eastern Oregonian, Latinx/Chicano, "Spanglish" bilingual, first-generation college graduate, and a school counselor for the past 20 years at Milwaukie HS located in southeast Portland, Oregon. Roberto has been recognized as the 2017 Oregon School Counselor Association school counselor of the year and was a national finalist for the 2019 American School Counselor Association school counselor of the year award. Roberto also serves as the current Oregon School Counselor Association President for the 2021-22 school year.