Escondido High School principal Dr. Adriana Lepe-Ramirez has been a part of the CARPE College Access Improvement Network since its inception in 2018. The CARPE College Access Network is a college access network housed out of the Center for Research, Equity, and Innovation (CREI) at the High Tech High Graduate School of Education. Its aim is to systematically get more students who are Black, Latinx, or from low-income backgrounds into, and through, college.