Dixie Samaniego is the Policy Associate for the California Alliance of Child and Family Services. Before joining the Alliance team, Dixie was a Senior Policy Aide at the City of Anaheim where she served as a principal advisor to a Council member and worked to address complex issues impacting residents. She also served as the Vice President of Systemwide Affairs at the California State Student Association, the official voice of the almost 500,000 students of the California State University system.

Dixie is the proud daughter of immigrant laborers and proud alumna from the California State University Fullerton and the Public Policy International Affairs Junior Summer Institute at the University of Michigan.