Sylvia Schnopp

Sylvia Muñoz Schnopp recently completed 12 years on the Port Hueneme City Council, with three terms as Mayor and two-and-a half terms as Mayor Pro Tem. During her tenure at the City of Port Hueneme, she provided key leadership including helping the city celebrate its 70^th anniversary, voting to permanently display the national motto, “In God We Trust” at City Hall, as well as coalescing state leadership to ensure funding for Hueneme Beach shoreline protection and beach restoration. She was recently a candidate for Camarillo’s City Council District 1 elections held November 8, 2022.

Ms. Schnopp has begun her 16^th year as adjunct professor of business, accounting and entrepreneurship at Oxnard College, and is currently serving as Business and Career Education Department Co-chair and was a consultant for OC First Year Experience program. She is Vice President for Ventura Land Trust Board of Directors, serves as Chairwoman of the County of Ventura Climate Emergency Council, serves as an Associate Board Member for CBC Federal Credit Union, and serves on the HOME (Housing Opportunities Made Easier) Board of Directors. She is also a business executive with a regional nonprofit organization responsible for empowering low- to moderate-income households in building generational wealth through homeownership.

Her professional career has included spending eight years as a corporate regional outreach strategist advocating for collaborative solutions for outdoor initiatives and community engagement; her guidance helped establish the Thomas Fire Trail Fund at the Ventura County Community Foundation through an impressive group of bi-county land managers. During her long tenure at AT&T Wireless Services, she held a variety of regional, multi-state, and national positions culminating as National Director for Multi-Cultural Initiatives where she was responsible for brokering national publicity, local leadership, building the framework for the national strategic plan, while positioning the organization in the top 20 U.S. Hispanic Markets.

Prior to AT&T she was Marketing Director at United Way of Ventura County where she created and implemented the nationally-acclaimed “Day of Caring” volunteer event attributed with recruiting hundreds of thousands of volunteers with projects held in communities annually throughout the United States, and building and implementing the beta-test for issues-oriented fundraising and allocations.

As the owner of Schnopp Consulting Group, her business leadership impacted numerous organizations including community building to keep Ventura County’s Naval Bases open and thriving serving as lead consultant for the 2005 BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) Taskforce, as well as consultant for a regional land use policy committee. She served as district delegate for 23^rd District Congresswoman Lois Capps for the 2004 Congressional Small Business Forum on Capitol Hill, and received the 2005 Community Advocate Award from the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO).

Her community work included serving as commissioner of the City of Camarillo’s Rent Review Mediation Commission, Chair of the Port Hueneme Water Agency, and as executive committee member for the California Joint Powers Insurance Authority, the Economic Development Collaborative of Ventura County (EDC-VC), and Ventura County Economic Development Association (VCEDA). She served on boards of directors for St. John’s Regional Medical Center, The Museum of Ventura County, City Impact, and was a member of the esteemed Ventura County Community Foundation’s Resource Center for Nonprofit Leadership.