Dhoryan Rizo

Director

Currently, the Program Manager for the After School Academy at VCRC as well as the organization’s Lead Organizer, Dhoryan Rizo grew up in San Francisco, having migrated to the United States as an undocumented migrant along with his family. After barely graduating from high school, and spending three years in Guatemala, Dhoryan and his family moved to East Contra Costa in 2000, where he enrolled at Los Medanos College. He transferred to UC Davis soon after. While at UC Davis, Dhoryan co-founded the Migrant Camp Outreach Project (MCOP) to provide both students and parents with enriching experiences, English classes, and tutoring. Dhoryan began his work as an organizer with the San Francisco Day Labor Program where he worked collaboratively with day laborers of color to fight for the right to work and live in the rapidly gentrifying city. Before coming to Village Community Resource Center, Dhoryan worked as a migrant rights organizer and later as an educational equity organizer with Faith in Action, East Bay. As an education organizer, he has been able to share his own experience as a “bad” student and his realization that anything was possible as long as the opportunity was available. He works towards making this platitude into a reality for students and families in East Contra Costa.