Isidro Farias

Isidro is an exceptional talent with deep experience. He has spent nearly three decades utilizing his architecture background to influence unique professional spaces, and he brings to our campus a blend of experience as an architect, educator, respected colleague, and experienced project director. As a first-generation college graduate, Isidro offers a unique perspective that informs his work and helps him to understand student needs.

Isidro has dedicated more than a decade of his professional career to higher education. He worked at UC Berkeley in a role that allowed for innovative thinking and techniques to solve complicated environmental design issues, for example, and he also served the California State University System’s Maritime Academy where he helped realize many exciting, specialized projects.

In early 2018, Isidro joined the California Community College System as a Director of Capital Projects and was responsible for the oversight of a $265 million capital project bond for the College of Marin while leveraging public/private partnership opportunities. He was responsible for the management and completion of large-scale projects such as an aquatics and fitness center/dive center complex, event center, a new $100 million learning resources center that’s currently under construction, and other academic, housing, and auxiliary projects.

Even during off-hours, Isidro is an advocate of higher education and is always seeking ways to inspire students; he volunteers his time, for example, to develop after-school high school programs, summer programs, and a summer academy where students earned college credit.

Isidro is a lifelong California resident who was raised in the Central Valley. He attended California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, where he earned a Bachelor of Architecture and earned a Master of Architecture from UC Berkeley. He and his wife of 20 years are proudly raising two young children. He enjoys traveling abroad with his family and volunteering in his community.