Who We Are
Our story
ECCO Community Center is the classroom and advisory office outside of our school systems that provides guidance to students and parents from any background with services currently available in English and Spanish. ECCO is a New Orleans based 501c3 organization. It believes that access to higher education should be accessible to all. We provide educational guidance to Hispanic parents & first-generation students on financial, admission, and scholarship application processes for higher educational pathways.
Linett Luna
Program Founder & Instructor
Dr. Amy P. Urbina
Program Founder & Instructor
Sergio Castellanos
Community Outreach & Communications Coordinator
Our Leadership Team
Ingrid Bustos
Founder & Executive Director
Bustos migrated to the U.S. with her family as a teenager in 2001 from El Salvador. After she finished earning her certification in teaching ministry, she was ordained as a Minister in 2018. Her passion is to serve people and to help Youth find their path. She discovered her passion while serving as a youth pastor for 8 years and throughout that experience she found her calling to serve her community and its youth.
Navigating through a new place of living, she believes that the struggle and difficulty always comes from God in the form of a test. In 2018 she founded ECCO Community Center, a place where students and parents from any background can have access to necessary resources to be able to attend college or a university.
Under her leadership ECCO has been a part of several programs with different organizations in the Greater New Orleans Area.
Our Team
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Don Francis
I currently serve as the Director of Prevention and Education for La Voz Coalition, where I oversee various federal initiatives focused on reducing risk factors within the Hispanic community. My work involves supervising programs that support students and families through education, prevention, and community outreach.
In addition to this role, I am also a senior pastor. Through the church, I provide pastoral care and serve as a family counselor, working closely with the Department of Children and Family Services and Juvenile Court. We also partner with schools, churches, and community organizations to support youth and families holistically. My career has always centered on service, advocacy, and empowering communities, both through faith-based and public initiatives.
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