Irvin Peraza

Irvin Peraza | Program Coordinator in San Francisco

Irvin Peraza is a first-generation San Francisco native with roots in Mexico and El Salvador. He attended Cesar Chavez Elementary, Everett Middle School (a SCORES site), and Galileo and Burton High Schools before heading to Cal State East Bay in Hayward for college.

Irvin worked as an after school teacher at Alice Fong Yu with GLO for nine years. His twin brother David took a similar position at Alvarado Elementary, where both Perazas met SCORES staff members Yuri Morales and Genaro "Junior" Arana, who encouraged them to consider joining SCORES after GLO phased back some of its programming. 

Though Irvin had been a baseball guy, he ended up falling in love with coaching soccer and poetry, tackling both with energy and excitement. He’s now a program coordinator in San Francisco, working at SCORES sites close to the neighborhood he grew up in: the Mission Education Center, Marshall Elementary, TECA, Bryant, and ER Taylor.

He sometimes brings in poetry he wrote at Everett to read to SCORES students feeling hesitant about writing poetry. “When I was in middle school, I discovered that poetry actually helped me to express myself. Like if I was feeling angry or frustrated about something, I would write poetry about it, and it would make me feel better,” Irvin says. 

Contact Irvin - irvin@americascores.org