Argelia Rodriguez

Argelia Rodriguez was the first president and CEO of the District of Columbia College Access Program (DC-CAP), an organization established in 1999 to encourage and enable public and public charter high school students in Washington, D.C. to enter and graduate from college.

As president and CEO, Rodriguez is responsible for operating 40 college information centers in the District's public and public charter high schools around the city.

Under the leadership of Rodriguez, DC-CAP has assisted more than thirteen thousand students to enroll in college, helping to double the D.C. public and public charter high school student college enrollment rate and establishing DC-CAP as a national leader in college retention research and practice.