Xiomara Guevara currently holds the position of CCLI Supervising Attorney for MCOHA. Previously, she served as MCOHA's Executive Director and, before that, as Center Director for La Casa de Don Pedro Preschool programs. At La Casa de Don Pedro she was successful in the opening, organizing and making both centers she managed into model centers for the city of Newark. Her passion for education stems from her tenure in the Newark Public Schools and Discovery Charter School where she taught fifth and sixth grade. Education continued to be a vehicle for helping the Latino community through an adjunct professor position she held from 2004 to 2008 at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
She received her B.A. from Drew University where she double majored in Political Science and Spanish and Minored in Latin American and Jewish Studies. She completed her Masters in Public Administration from New York University, the Robert Wagner School for Public Service, and her Juris Doctorate at Rutgers Law School-Newark.
She has been awarded by the Center for Hispanic Policy, Research, and Development the Alumni of the Year 2007 award for being part of the Latino Leaders in Public Service Internship program and an Achievement Award by the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office. In August 2010, she was chosen to participate in the National Hispana Leadership Institute’s ALL IN Fellowship program in partnership with Georgetown University. She dedicates time to her community by serving on different Board of Directors such as Zufall Health Center, Saint Clare’s Health, Morris Arts Council, Homeless Solutions CHODA and Family Development Center-Project 2015. She was appointed by the Board of Chosen Freeholders in Morris County to serve on the Human Services Advisory Council.