Oscar De Los Santos graduated from the University of Southern California in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in political science. He is the son of Mexican immigrants. Oscar graduated as a Truman Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, with USC's Order of the Laurel and Palm, its highest honor, reserved for twenty undergraduates each year. The city council of Los Angeles honored him as an emerging leader. He has served as an intern to the National Economic Council and the House of Representatives and worked as the youngest Florida field organizer for the 2012 Obama campaign. Oscar is currently a lobbyist and manager of public policy for the Association of Arizona Food Banks, and in the 2015-16 academic year, he taught English and social studies to sixth graders at the Champion South Mountain School in Phoenix. He has a special interest in the theology of Reinhold Niebuhr; at Oxford, he plans to study public policy and Theology with a focus on Christian ethics. |