Mark Vargas is a life-long San Antonian who recognized the importance of civil service early in his childhood. Having worked with various organizations, such as the San Antonio Youth Commission and SA2020 as an ambassador, he has strived to spread that very message. Having recently graduated from St. Mary's University, he looks forward helping make San Antonio the city he envisioned back in 2010.
It’s crazy to think that it was six years ago when I first spoke at a Destination College Press Conference. I was a sophomore at Brooks Academy of Science and Engineering, I was the Chairman of the San Antonio Youth
After 12 years of driving progress toward a shared community vision, SA2020, the nonprofit organization, is dissolving. We believe this is the most visionary thing we can do. We made this decision with the greatest care for our organizational values of leadership, community, and accountability, and we hope you’ll read more about it on our blog.
Our website is live with our final data release, showing where San Antonio stands on reaching the shared community vision. The data release is accompanied by our final call to action—a policy agenda for City government based on our unique bird’s-eye view of San Antonio.
While SA2020’s operations ended March 28, these resources, along with the last twelve years of our research and stories, will be available to download from our website through September 2024.
– Team SA2020