• B.S., San Francisco State University - Business Administration & Computer Information System
• M.S., Capella University - Psychology with Specialization in Counseling Psychology

Rafael Valle started at LPC as a counseling intern in 2010, and was hired full-time in 2014. He works with the Puente Program and in general counseling.  Prior to working at LPC, Rafael spent three years working at Skyline College also as the Puente counselor. Simultaneously he was the Director of the Tri-Valley One Stop Career Center. And prior to that, he worked for a little bit over ten years in the brokerage and banking industry.

Rafael’s most extraordinary moments in his career have been attending the Puente Northern California Regional Conferences, where everyone has the same goal of making higher education more accessible and a better place.