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• LEADERSHIP 40 comstocksmag.com | May 2017
QUIRINA OROZCO DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, SACRAMENTO COUNTY Last fall, three months before the November election, Quirina Orozco decided to make a run for West Sacramento City Council. The Sacramento County district attorney and mother of four was already involved in two separate city commissions and knew that serving as councilwoman would be a much larger commitment for her and her family. She felt called to the task, spurred on by a long history of public service, but it felt daunting. Then she says she realized, “Who am I if I’m going to let my fear debilitate me?” At worst, Orozco says, she could only lose. And her children “would see that mommy was brave” and perhaps they would have a civics lesson in the process, she laughs. But she did win one of the two open seats in November, along with Beverly Sandeen, totalling more than 64 percent of the vote between them. (Orozco alone nearly doubled the vote count of her nearest competitor, Martha Guerrero.) Orozco attended UC Berkeley, then graduated from Harvard with a master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government in 1999. She was recruited for her first job out of college by the White House for the Office of Management and Budget under the Clinton administration, returning to California in late 2001 for a job with Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante as the executive director of the Commission for One California, which sought to bring together diverse leaders from across the state to combat issues of prejudice, intolerance and hate. Orozco has been a district attorney with Sacramento County for the past 12 years and is currently working with the State Targeted Offenders Program. In the STOP unit, Orozco prosecutes crimes that have occurred in prison, against prisoners. In her previous work with the Sexual Assault and Child Abuse unit, her clients were often young children and human trafficking victims. Orozco says that it’s hard for her to separate being a woman and a mother from her career, partially because she believes that women have a very different skillset when it comes to leadership. There’s an empathy and an emotional intelligence that women and mothers carry with them throughout their lives, she says. But that can lead to a deep-seated anxiety about how she measures up against others (both male and female) in her orbit And though she’s had many role models in her life, Orozco speaks of how inspired she was by the courage and resilience of a young girl whose sex abuse case she worked on: “Role models come in a whole bunch of different shapes and sizes; they’re not necessarily older than you or more experienced than you,” she says. “Sometimes they’re less so, and they’re younger but they have a fight and a drive, and it makes you realize what you fight for.” Orozco knows she’d be in a very different place if it weren’t for role models that showed her the way: “People made this all happen so I could sit behind a desk and talk to you about my life,” she says, but more often than not, no one is there to show you the way. She imagines her life as a long journey on a road "fraught with potholes or broken glass or other obstacles to my travel." She can travel this road alone, or she can help the people behind her avoid the obstacles and find the opportunities — she has chosen the latter. “I know it’s my calling to make sure the opportunity doesn’t stop with me.” May 2017 | comstocksmag.com 41
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