Blanca Enriquez

Enriquez was born in Ciudad Juárez, moved to the United States when she was 6 and was raised in El Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas.^[1] Enriquez attended Bowie High School, where she graduated at the top ten percent of her class.^[2]

Enriquez was first a teacher's aide in 1973.^[2] Enriquez later started teaching English as a second language to kindergartners and first graders in El Paso, Texas.^[3] She became the head of the Region 19 Head Start program in 1986.^[2] Enriquez served as the director of the El Paso region's Head Start program for 21 years.^[4] Enriquez was named the director of the federal Head Start program in April 2015.^[5]