Nancy Chaires Espinoza is a Legislative Advocate at Murdoch, Walrath & Holmes, where she represents the Coalition for Adequate School Housing and the School Energy Coalition, and helps to lead the fight for sustainable, guaranteed funding for school facilities in California. Nancy has decades of experience in advocacy, helping clients large and small to navigate the State budget, legislative, and regulatory processes.
She is practiced at advocating at the local, state, and national levels of government. As a management consultant, Nancy specialized in working with state and local agencies, to help them improve their effectiveness and efficiency.
At the California Department of Education, she conducted an overhaul of the Migrant Education Program that led to preservation of federal funding and national authorization for the program.
As an Advocate for the California School Boards Association, she led large coalitions on critical educational issues for students and schools.
Nancy has served as a member the Elk Grove Unified Board of Education for a decade. She has a B.A. in Political Science and Spanish from Whittier College, and an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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