Project Team (PT)
- Adult Education Office Team
- Debra Jones, Administrator
- Cliff Moss, Consultant
- Diane Hurley, Consultant
- Matthew Parsons, Consultant
- WestEd Team
- Svetlana Darche, Senior Research Associate
- Nara Nayar, Research Associate
- Elisa Ordona, Administrative Assistant
- Paul Downs, Strategic Planning Consultant
Steering Committee (SC)
- Roger Brossmer, Principal, Downey Adult School
- Cynthia Parulan-Colfer, Assoc. Superintendent, Hacienda La Puente Adult Educaton
- Nancy Compton, Principal, Charles A. Jones Skills and Business Center
- Carol S. Hirota, Principal, Stockton School for Adults
- Mary Ketza, Director, Azusa Adult School
- Lindy Khan, Principal, Contra Costa County Office of Education, Adult Correctional Education
- Brigitte Marshall, Director, Oakland Adult and Career Education
- Cherise Moore, Burbank Adult School
- Ed Morris, Assistant Superintendent., Division of Adult and Career Education, Los Angeles Unified School District
- Marie Pinto, Director, Tulare Adult School
- Martha Rankin, Principal, Newport-Mesa Adult School
- Tim Shaw, Retired, West Contra Costa Adult School
- Members of the Project TeamÂ
Field Partnership Team (FPT)
- Dwayne Robinson, President CAEAA, Region 2
- Joyce Lude, Region 3
- Brigitte Marshall, Region 4
- Joanne Durkee, Region 5
- Carol S. Hirota, Region 6
- Marie Pinto, Region 7
- Susan Handy Region 8
- Kathleen Porter, Region 9
- JoDee Guerard, Region 10
- Ed Morris, Region 11a
- Cherise Moore, Region 11b
- Sue Gilmore, Historian
- Mike Wada, President, CCAE
- Mary Prather, President, ACSA Adult Education
- Mariann Fedele, Project Director, CALPRO
- Pat Rickard, Executive Director, CASAS
- Marian Thatcher, Director, OTAN
Expert Panel
- Barbara Baran, Senior Fellow, California Budget Project
- Diane Blackmon, Director, CalSTAT, Transition to Adult Living (Washington USD)
- Lisa Garcia-Bedolla, Associate Professor, University of California Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley
- Norton Grubb, Professor, Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation, UC Berkeley
- Barbara Halsey, Executive Director, California Workforce Investment Board
- Karen Humphrey, Administrator, Improving Teacher Quality Program, California Postsecondary Education Commission
- Cheryl King, Study Director, National Commission on Adult Literacy
- Colleen Moore, Research Specialist, Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy, CA State University, Sacramento
- Barbara Nemko, Superintendent, Napa County Office of Education
- Nancy Shulock, Professor and Executive Director, Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy, CA State University, Sacramento
- David Stern, Professor, Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation, UC Berkeley
Stakeholder Panel
The Stakeholder Panel includes relevant agencies / organizations / educational systems that have a vested interest in the educational attainment, workforce skills, aging population, and independent living skills of adults. The Panel will provide broad stakeholder input to ensure that the viewpoints of stakeholders across multiple organizations are appropriately reflected. The Panel will provide written feedback during the needs assessment as well as review and comment on the draft of the plan.
Key Informants
- Patrick Ainsworth, Assistant Superintendent and Director of the Secondary, Postsecondary, and Adult Leadership Division
- Mariann Fedele, Project Director, CALPRO
- Marian Thacher, Director, OTAN
- John Fleischman, Assistant Superintendent of Technology, Sacramento Office of Education, and Executive Director of OTAN.
- Pat Rickard, Executive Director, CASAS
- Patricia DeCos, Senior Research Policy Analyst, California Research Bureau
- Karen Humphrey, Executive Director, California Postsecondary Education Commission
- Colleen Moore, Research Specialist, Institute for Higher Education, Leadership & Policy at CSU, Sacramento
- Jim Soland, Fiscal and Policy Analyst, Legislative Analyst’s Office
- Mary Prather, President, ACSA Adult Educaton
- Matthew Smith, former President, CCAE
- Mike Wada, President, CCAE
- Dwayne Robinson, President, CAEAA
- Sharon Brannon, former President, CAEAA
- Debra Jones, Administrator, Adult Education Office, CDE
For questions regarding any technical difficulties, contact OTAN at 916-228-2580 or toll free (CA only) at 800-894-3113 or by email at support@otan.us. OTAN Staff are available Monday through Friday between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.