Professional and community activities:
Gloria Cordero has served on the Long Beach Board of Water Commissioners since January 2015.
She is a principal at Cordero & Associates, a Long Beach-based public affairs consulting firm she founded in 2008. In 2006, then-Long Beach Mayor Bob Foster appointed her as the city's deputy director of community affairs, where she managed education, workforce development, nonprofits and business, and community outreach.
Cordero previously was the government affairs director for Long Beach City College and a regional manager for Southern California Edison. She started at Edison as an educational representative, where she developed and implemented energy-efficiency and safety programs for school districts in Los Angeles, the South Bay and Long Beach.
Cordero has a long history of community service in Long Beach, where she served as a board member on the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Long Beach, Long Beach Nonprofit Partnership and the California Conference for Equality and Justice (formerly National Conference for Christians and Jews). She is currently a member of the Long Beach YMCA Metro Board. Cordero, a former educator, has volunteered for more than 40 years with the Navajo Nation in Arizona, where she was appointed by then-President Pete Zah to the board of the First Navajo and Library Foundation in Window Rock, Ariz.
A Long Beach native, Cordero received her master’s degree in public administration from the University of Southern California and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from California State University, Long Beach.
Cordero and her husband, Mario Cordero, have two children and three grandsons.
