Alumni Advocates of the Year

Manolo P. Platin
Humboldt State University

Manolo Platin was appointed special assistant and legislative analyst for California’s Office of the Insurance Advisor in January 2007. His primary functions at State & Consumer Services Agency include analyzing legislation affecting insurance, probate and workers’ compensation, and assisting the director with special projects including catastrophe planning and mitigation.

Platin also was an executive fellow in the governor’s Cabinet Office from 2005 to 2006 and a policy consultant for the Vasconcellos Legacy Project in 2005.

From 2004 to 2005, he served as chairman of the California State Student Association, representing the then 409,000 students of the CSU system. Prior to that, when serving as Associated Students vice president of student affairs at Humboldt State, Platin was named by CSSA as advocate of the year in 2003-04. During his time in the student association, he provided advice to CSSA staff and board members and the state personnel board on how to increase the number of CSU graduates working in the California civil service system. Platin graduated from Humboldt State University in 2005.