Mr. Cisneros began working at Cooper in 1994 as a Bilingual Instructional Assistant.

Also a professional artist, he has exhibited oil paintings in Nicaragua and San Francisco while producing a variety of cartoons many of which have been published in news papers and magazines.

Other projects include coordinating and organizing summer arts programs for children in low income housing projects.

One of Mr. Cisneros gifts to Cooper is a set of decorative murals that were made between April and June 1995 in the after-school program. The murals now adorn the new Cooper hallways.

Aris says about Cooper students, "They have taught me more than I can ever teach them."