ABout lalo
teacher organizer firefighter emt
teacher & organizer
Lalo has been a teacher at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) for the past five years. He teaches biology and environmental science to high school students. Lalo is also a proud member of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) and is a fierce advocate for his students. In 2023, Lalo along with thousands of other teachers went on strike in solidarity with SEIU Local 99 to better learning conditions at LAUSD.
When Lalo isn’t teaching he spends his time organizing alongside different working class communities to fight for what they deserve. In January 2025 when the LA Wildfires broke out, Lalo was one of the first organizers on the scene to provide aid to families who were displaced and lost their homes. In 2022 he helped Pasadena tenants organize against evictions and form their own tenant union. From helping fire survivors clean up effected areas to organizing immigrants to fight back against ICE terror, Lalo’s extensive experience serving the people have prepared him better than any other candidate to become California’s next Insurance Commissioner.
former firefighter & emt
From 2014 till 2016 Lalo served as a volunteer firefighter and EMT-B with the College Township Fire Department in rural Ohio. He serviced the local Gambier community, Kenyon College, and other parts of Knox county not serviced by other fire departments. With the aid of others in the Rescue 451 squad, Lalo provided direct care to patients in critical condition and with severe traumas from car accidents, seizures, falls, and potential OD’s.
why i’m running for insurance commisoner
While families were coming to terms with the loss of their homes due to LA’s recent wildfires, they also had to struggle with their insurance companies just to get the compensation they deserved. Months have now passed and it's clear that hundreds of homeowners were cheated out of the coverage they paid for. By refusing to pay out claims, threatening to not renew policies or write new ones the private insurance industry is trying to hold California hostage. Their ransom: incisive rate hikes across the state, more money for less coverage. Every worker in California is now being asked to pay the bill for a climate crisis caused by the richest corporations in the world and both political parties are allowing this hostage situation to continue.
Everyday people’s livelihoods are destroyed by the private insurance industry and those in charge of regulating the industry do nothing but aid this criminal activity. I'm running for Insurance Commissioner to end the stranglehold that private insurance has over the working class, to investigate and hold corporate executives accountable for their crimes against consumers and to fight for a California that provides free and high quality coverage for all.