 Enrolling as a founding pupil at the Center for Enriched Studies, the first magnet school in Los Angeles and the centerpiece of the district's voluntary integration program instituted following a court finding of racial segregation, Christopher Cabaldon first became involved in politics as a seventh-grader, speaking at conferences and in media interviews on the subject of desegregation.He became student body president at the school.Cabaldon earned his BS in Environmental Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was student body vice president.