Experienced leadership | real results | students first 

Meet Steve Gibson

Steve Gibson is a long-time resident and active community member in the Pasadena-Altadena area over the past 20 years.  As a returning student, he saw our public education system under attack by misguided leadership priorities transforming our educational institutions into for-profit business.

In 2022, he took action and stepped up to run for Pasadena City College Trustee in District 3 because he knew that our students, staff and community deserved better.

As Pasadena City College Board Trustee, Steve has served and led with his values and student-centered priorities.

Education

  • Graduate of Pasadena City College, Associate of Arts in Communications (2010)

  • Bachelors of Science and Masters of Science in Communications (2012/2014)

  • PhD in Education (2019)

Publications 

  • Gibson, S. & Ilando, A. L. (Eds.) (2015). Impact of Communication and the Media on Ethnic Conflict. Hersey, PA: IGI Global

  • Gibson, S. & Gavel-Briggs, M. (2013). The Listening Way: Building bridges through engaged listening. Listening Education 5(1).

  • Gibson, S. (2016). Asante's Gullah Journey (The Library of Souls). Protected Books.

Community

  • Founding board member of Latinos for America

  • Member of Pasadena NAACP

  • Board member of Black Elected Officials of California (BEO)

  • Board member of Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance-LA (APALA-LA)

  • American Friends Service Committee, Los Angeles Program Director 

  • Bernie Sanders Campaign 2020, Regional Field Director

  • Jesse Jackson Campaign, 1988

Steve Gibson is Delivering for PCC

Putting students first

  • The cost of education is staggering. Steve believes that education is a human right and has fought to make education more accessible for all.

  • Steve has worked to ensure that every student at PCC, regardless of their family income, the color of their skin, disability, (or immigration status) has the support they need to succeed.

Elevating the voice of faculty and staff as equal partners in leadership

  • As Trustee, Steve believes in faculty and staff equity and respectable working conditions for everyone.

  • Steve has delivered for classified staff to cultivate an environment where workers feel safe to speak to their managers, without fear of reprisals because they, too, are there to serve the students.

Encouraging the community’s stake in the college

  • Engaging the community is pivotal to Steve’s vision of uplifting and encouraging a path for education for all. He’s worked to expand course offerings at local high schools and work with the community to increase engagement across the region.

Expanding certificate programs & vocational education

  • Steve knows that PCC must expand non-credit adult education and more programs in skilled trades that provide training to support non-traditional, minority, and low-income students to develop job skills, find gainful employment or further other educational and personal goals.

Increasing accountability and transparency at the school

  • Understanding the value of transparency and importance of holding leadership accountable, Steve has always fought for re-establishing trust in the Board of Trustees.

  • Steve has worked across the board to push for accountability, transparency, and fairness at PCC.