The details
Four candidates have filed to represent District 2, two candidates have filed for District 5, two candidates have filed for District 6, and two candidates have filed for District 7.
Incumbent Homer Guevara Jr. is running for re-election as the District 2 representative on the board of trustees. Guevara, an economics and government professor at Northwest Vista College, replaced Gerald Lopez in 2024 and served the remainder of the unexpired term.
Candidate Sonia Jasso has served in educational leadership roles for over a decade, including serving on the board San Antonio Council on Alcohol and Drug Awareness, as an advisory member for KLRN Community Advisory Board, on the board of Texas Women in Higher Education and as an advisory member of the city of San Antonio Affirmative Action Advisory Committee.
District 2 candidates also include former educator Mary Olison and Richard Delgado Jr. Delgado has three children, with two in middle school and one in elementary school, and has served as PTA president, a member of the Citizens Bond Advisory Committee and as the chair of the School Boundary Advisory Committee.
In District 5, first-term incumbent Corinne Saldana is running for re-election. Saldana is a former educator and NISD principal. Saldana is a member of the board of directors of the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals, a member of the Bexar County school boards coalition, a member of the Legislative Action Committee of the Texas Association of School Boards and a member of the NISD building, academic, finance, technology and policy committees. District 5 candidate Laura Lee Zapata is an educator.
Incumbent Carol Harle is running for re-election as the District 6 representative on the board of trustees. Harle was first elected to the NISD board of trustees in 2013 and was elected to the Texas Association of School Board of Directors, representing TASB Region 20, Position B. She has taught in both NISD and NEISD and worked as an academic dean at Rayburn Middle School and as a NISD staff development specialist. She teaches at UTSA in the College of Education and the College of Sciences.
Candidate Nicolette Maranan Ardiente is a programs manager. Ardiente also serves as a New Leaders Council fellow, as precinct chair 3162 of the Bexar County Democratic Party and as the president of the Bexar County Young Democrats.
In District 7, incumbent Karen Freeman is running for re-election. Freeman has served on the NISD board of trustees since 2005 and was re-elected for her fifth term in 2021. She currently serves as the chair of the finance committee for NISD, as a member of the academics, building, technology and policy committees, and as a member of the intergovernmental relations committee. Freeman has also served for 12 years on the board of directors for the Texas Association of School Boards and is a member of the Bexar County School Boards Coalition.
Candidate Larissa Martinez is the executive director and managing partner for Circle of Arms—an organization that promotes mental health awareness through education, advocacy for veterans, women and minority communities—and an Air Force veteran.
Looking ahead
Once elected, the board of trustees will serve a four-year term.
