Conrad Fuentes joined the USC School of Social Work field education faculty at the Orange County Academic Center in 2010. He has also been a lecturer within the human services department at California State University.
Prior to his academic career, Fuentes was a gang specialist for La Habra middle schools and Orange County Juvenile Drug Court. In 2006, he started Cross Cultural Consulting to address issues surrounding gang intervention and education, as well as Latino culture, which has given him the opportunity to work with clinicians, educators, community service agency staff, attorneys, judges and parents.