I think a lot about role models.
When you serve young people, you have to. A role model doesn’t just teach, they inspire. They don’t just show, they lead.
Carmen Ramirez was more than an County Supervisor or City Councilmember. Carmen Ramirez was a role model.
Not to just me, but to so many of us.
Carmen was a model of how you can combine hard work and passion to make things better for everyone. She loved Oxnard and the people who called it home and never stopped fighting for them.
Carmen Ramirez’s legacy will live on in her accomplishments and in all those she inspired.
We will miss Carmen as a leader, as a friend, and as a role model.
