Meet Jose Lopez

National Operations Director, STEM Director, Los Angeles | jlopez@yesscholars.org

Jose Lopez was born and raised in Lennox. Identified as a YES scholar in the 6th grade, Jose graduated with high honors from the Buckley School in Sherman Oaks, CA. He graduated from Stanford University in 2017 with a BS in Aeronautical & Astronautical Engineering. While at Stanford, he was on the executive board of Stanford Space Student Initiative and interned at Skybox Imaging, recording and testing space simulation data for the company's satellite at NASA's Ames Research. Jose joined the staff at YES in 2018 as the Director of STEM Programs and launched YES' first in-house robotics class in summer 2018.