From 2008 to current, I was elected to sit on the Board of Directors for RSBCIHI and Selnek-is Kawish Board for my Tribe. From 2006-2008, I served a 2-year term elected as a Tribal Council Proxy for Torres Martinez. I started cultural monitoring, protecting and preserving cultural resources. From 2005 to current, I took a different career path and got into Tribal politics. With my Tribe and started helping in cooking for our traditional wakes.

From 1999 to current, I started to get heavily involved I worked at the clinic for 8 years, but as a 28-year-old mother of 3, I made the decision to continue forth with my path. I worked at the Casino from 1998-2005.Īt age 21, I took a different career path and went to work for Riverside-San Bernardino County Indian Health (RSBCIHI)as a CHR assisting with high risk pregnancies and I received a CHR certificate. My 2nd child, endured and overcame domestic violence. I quit working at Little Caesars and the bakery and started working at the Morongo Casino as a main cage cashier. I became highly active for my Tribe and started cooking at different events. Since 1996, I have been cooking at POW WOW’s and fiesta gatherings and started my own catering business named Papa Lango’s, named after my Grampa LLoyd Duro III. At age 18, I was a single mother who held 3 jobs (1st job Little Caesars, 2nd job Del Taco, I became a shift leader, and 3rd job at a bakery)

I graduated from New Herizons independent school in 1995 at age 18, when my daughter was 5months. Daughter of Frank and Laverne Franco, an enrolled member of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians, from the Isil Clan, (coyote).Īt age 15, I attended Beauty College, was a survivor of domestic violence, and was a teen mother (I had my first child at age 17). I helped raised my nieces, nephews, cousins and many family members.

Desiree Franco, I am a proud mother of 6 children and 6 grandchildren.

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