Mercedes Lemp will serve as the director of the Office on Latino Affairs. For nearly four years, Mercedes Lemp served as the executive director of Language ETC, a nonprofit organization serving thousands of mostly Latino immigrants, providing English as a Second Language and other services. She has over 15 years of management experience. Prior to her work in the nonprofit sector, Ms. Lemp served as a marketing director in the technology field for the Council of Better Business Bureaus' BBBOnLine Department and at Netscape Communications Corporation in California and Miami.
Ms. Lemp is originally from Spain but has mainly lived in the Washington area since moving to the United States. She has been an active member of the 16th Street Heights community where she lives. She is currently the vice president of Communications for the parent association at John Eaton Elementary School where her children attend school. She received a degree in business from the University of Maryland and holds an MBA from George Washington University.
