Community Member

Oxnard College Faculty Member

Mar 27, 2017 11:06:46 PM

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Sylvia Muñoz Schnopp- Biography Sylvia Muñoz Schnopp recently completed 12 years on the Port Hueneme City Council and three terms as Mayor and most recently as Mayor Pro Tem for the 2019-2020 year. Her political career began Dec. 2008 and during her tenure she served as a member of the city’s Audit Committee, Water Rate Committee, and Branding Committee. She provided key leadership including helping the city celebrate its 70th anniversary, as well as helped direct and turn the corner with a divisive city council and staff transition. Her insight championed the cause to be first and only city in Ventura County voting to display the national motto, “In God We Trust” at City Hall November 2011. Additionally her work in 2013 was pivotal to help bring state leadership together, working alongside city council colleagues and former Assemblymembers Jeff Gorrell and Das Williams to ensure Hueneme Beach shoreline protection funding when federal funding was inadequate in providing beach restoration and protection measures. Ms. Schnopp is beginning her 14th academic year at Oxnard College as adjunct professor of business, accounting and entrepreneurship as well as this year’s co-chair of the business department. She is the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees for Ventura Land Trust, Chair of the newly formed Ventura County Climate Emergency Council as prescribed by the Ventura County Board of Supervisors, and Rent Review Mediation Commissioner for the City of Camarillo. She spent eight year as a corporate regional outreach strategist advocating for collaborative solutions and responsible for grants that helped maintain and restore public lands. Her tenacity for working with land groups including the Los Padres Forest Association, Los Padres National Forest, The C.R.E.W., Sage Trail Alliance and the Santa Barbara County Trails Council led to establishing the Thomas Fire Trail Fund with the Ventura County Community Foundation and building a consortium responsible for trail restoration as a result of the 2017-18 Thomas Fire and Debris Flow affecting Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. Ms. Schnopp’s community services included serving as chair of the Port Hueneme Water Agency, as member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the California Joint Powers in Insurance Authority, and on the board of the Ventura County Council of Government (VCOG). She served as alternate board member for Regional Defense Partnership RDP-21 and the Economic Development Collaborative of Ventura County (EDC-VC). She also served as board member and alternate for Gold Coast Transit District and as a former CA GOP delegate. She’s produced local television programming on Mexico’s Cristero Revolution and is featured in “Living Legends”, a book published in 2013 by local Oxnard historian Jeff Maulhardt. As a private business owner of Schnopp Consulting Group, she provides general and segmented business consulting, marketing, public and external affairs strategies; her business leadership has impacted numerous entrepreneurs, small businesses, international corporations, government and notable nonprofit organizations. Ms. Schnopp was active with the executive committee and board of directors of the Ventura County Economic Development Association (VCEDA) and the Ventura County 2005 BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) Taskforce. She was a district delegate for Congresswoman Lois Capps, 23rd District, for the 2004 Congressional Small Business Forum on Capitol Hill, and received the 2005 Community Advocate Award from the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO). While serving Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV) as their Ventura County manager, WEV received the prestigious El Concilio del Condado de Ventura Latino Leadership Award for their extensive work on behalf of assisting Latino microbusinesses and up-and-coming entrepreneurs. She spent eight years at AT&T Wireless Services and held a variety of regional, multi-state and national positions in marketing, public relations and external affairs, culminating as National Director for Multi-Cultural Initiatives responsible for media relations in the Top 20 Hispanic Markets in the U.S. She was recognized as a leader of leaders with McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless as a national award winner of their “Circle of Excellence” Award, a prestigious award acknowledging winning of both local and regional status before gaining the national award (earned by only the top 2% of employees). While at AT&T, she was attributed with creation of compelling campaigns and as well as the implementation of overarching cultural awareness programs that provided organizational legacies for employees, customers and communities. Before AT&T, she was Marketing Director for United Way of Ventura County where she created and implemented the nationally-acclaimed “Day of Caring” volunteer event that is attributed with recruiting hundreds of thousands of volunteers in communities annually throughout the United States, and implemented the beta test for issues-oriented fundraising and allocations models that developed into the core model for the United Way organization. Ms. Schnopp earned a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) with an emphasis in Finance from California Lutheran University (achieving high honors) and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with an emphasis in Marketing, from California State University, Northridge. She served on the St. John’s Regional Medical Center Community Board, The Museum of Ventura County Board of Directors, and was a member of the Ventura County Community Foundation’s Resource Center for Nonprofit Leadership. A published writer, guest columnist and lecturer, she has written her first novel, Abandoned Angels, based on her family’s true story during Mexico’s Cristero Revolution and is a sought-after subject-matter expert. A native of Oxnard, she traces her Ventura County heritage to the early 20th Century.