“This conversation is about stepping up. It's never about, you know, feeling like you have to pay someone back. Your eyes are open, your mind is open, your heart is open to stepping up and initiating and getting things done.”
-Mark Pulido
Mark Pulido
Biography
Mark E. Pulido was elected to the Cerritos City Council in March 2011. He served as Mayor Pro Tem in 2013 and as Mayor in 2014. He was re-elected to the City Council in 2015, and became Mayor Pro Tem in 2017 and Mayor in 2018.
A proud Cerritos resident since 1972, Pulido has an extensive history of local community service and professional work experience in local, state and federal government. He was elected to the ABC Unified School District Board in 2001 and was re-elected in 2005 and 2009. He served as Board President in 2007-2008 and concluded his service in March 2011. Pulido also served as the Board Liaison for the ABC Federal Head Start and State Preschool programs for seven years. In 2009, the Los Angeles County Office of Education honored Pulido with its "Board Member of the Year" award. At the state level, California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. appointed Pulido to serve on the California Volunteers Commission from 2013 to 2017, the Board of Directors of the California Science Center and Exposition Park from 2017 to 2019, and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission from 2017 to 2019.
Pulido is a Council liaison to the ABC Unified School District and Cerritos Community College. He serves on the City's Performing Arts and Library committees. Pulido is the Council's alternate delegate to Sanitation Districts 2, 3, 18 & 19/Waste Management.
Pulido is the Deputy Chief of Staff for Congressman Alan Lowenthal. He previously worked for the California Legislature for more than a decade, serving as District Director to State Senator Alan Lowenthal. Prior to that, he served as a legislative consultant with the California State Assembly in the Los Angeles offices of Assembly Speakers Robert M. Hertzberg, Herb J. Wesson Jr. and Fabian Núñez. In the 1990s, Pulido worked for the City of Long Beach in the City Manager's Office, the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency, the Budget Bureau, the Parks, Recreation and Marine Department and the Gang Intervention/Prevention Program.
Pulido graduated with honors from Whitney High School in the ABC Unified School District. He received his bachelor's degree in History and Asian American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he served as UCLA Student Body President. He received his Master of Public Policy degree from The University of Chicago as a Woodrow Wilson National Fellow. Additionally, during his graduate studies, he served as a graduate fellow of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Institute at the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau for Justice Assistance in Washington, D.C. Pulido and his wife Gloria have two children.