Blanca Enriquez

Blanca Estella Enriquez is an American educator. She is currently the Director of Head Start in the United States.

Biography Enriquez was born in Ciudad Juárez, moved to the United States when she was 6 and was raised in El Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas. Enriquez attended Bowie High School, where she graduated at the top ten percent of her class.

Enriquez was first a teacher's aide in 1973. She became the head of the Region 19 Head Start program in 1986. Enriquez was named the director of the federal Head Start program in April 2015.