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Board of Directors
Advisory Council
Policy Research Advisory Board
Expert Advisory Group

Brooke Armour Spiegel (Vice Chair)

Executive Vice President

California Business Roundtable

Andy Wong (Secretary)

Managing Director of Advocacy

Chinese for Affirmative Action & Stop AAPI Hate

Maria Anguiano (Treasurer)

Executive Vice President of Learning Enterprise

Arizona State University

Estela Mara Bensimon, Ed.D.

University Professor Emerita & Founder, Center for Urban Education

Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California

Diana Aguilar-Cruz

Student

California State University, Fullerton

Lena Carew

Co-Founder and Head of Organizational Health & Innovation

The Justice Collective

Mellissa E. Gallegos

Partner

Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo

Dr. Juan Sánchez Muñoz

Chancellor

University of California, Merced

Maria Ott, Ph.D

Professor of Clinical Education

USC Rossier School of Education

Julie Peller

Chair, Founder and former Executive Director

Higher Education Advocates

Reshma Shamasunder

she/her

Executive Director

Asian American Futures

Joseph Villela

Director of Government Relations

The California Wellness Foundation

Dina Walker

President & CEO

BLU Educational Foundation

Advisory Council

The Advisory Council consists of active advocates and ambassadors for the Campaign, consisting of experts who strongly support our work and provide us with critical strategic advice as we press forward with solutions to increase college access and improve student success.

Maria Blanco

Former Executive Director
UC Immigrant Legal Services Center

UC Immigrant Legal Services Center, UC Davis School of Law

George Boggs

President & CEO Emeritus

American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)

Joseph Castro, Ph.D.

Former Chancellor

California State University

Marlene Garcia

Executive Director

California Student Aid Commission (CSAC)

Mildred Garcia, Ph.D.

President

American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU)

Pamela Haynes

Member
California Community Colleges
Board of Governors

California Community Colleges Board of Governors

Martha Kanter

Executive Director

College Promise Campaign

Robin Kramer

Trustee Emerita

Pitzer College

Kindred Murillo, Ph.D.

Interim Superintendent/President

Santa Barbara City College

Christopher J. Nellum, Ph.D.

Executive Director

The Education Trust–West

Angel Rodriguez

Commissioner

California Student Aid Commission

Deborah Santiago

Chief Executive Officer

Excelencia in Education

Dan Schnur

Professor

UC Berkeley Institute of Government Studies

Christopher Steinhauser

Member

California State University Board of Trustees

Peter Taylor

Former President

ECMC Foundation

Nora Vargas

Supervisor

County of San Diego

Kristen Soares

President, Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities

Vincent Pan

he/him

Co-Executive Director
Chinese for Affirmative Action

Chinese for Affirmatice Action

Policy Research Advisory Board

Members of our Policy Research Advisory Board are experts in the fields of higher education and public policy and serve as reviewers for our research, providing critical feedback on our major reports.

Zach Bleemer

Assistant Professor of Economics

Yale School of Management

Henry Brady

Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy

University of California, Berkeley

Dr. Darla Cooper

Executive Director

The RP Group

Robert Gabriner

Director and Professor, Educational Leadership Doctoral Program

San Francisco State University

Jacob Jackson

Research Fellow

Public Policy Institute of California

Orville Jackson

Vice President of Data Strategy

GreatSchools

Su Jin Jez

Executive Director

California Competes

Janette Martinez

Executive Search Consultant

Isaacson, Miller

Colleen Moore

Principal

Colleen Moore Consulting

Dowell Myers

Professor

USC Sol Price School of Public Policy

Luis Ponjuan

Associate Professor

Texas A&M University

Victor Saenz

Department Chair & Professor

The University of Texas at Austin

Laura Szabo-Kubitz

Higher Education Policy Consultant

Brian Prescott

Vice President

NCHEMS

Expert Advisory Group

Members of our Expert Advisory Group strategize on critical steps to uplift practices that can expand equity and inclusion in college preparation, college admission, and college completion

Dominique J. Baker, Ph.D

she/her

Associate Professor of Education Policy and Leadership
SMU Annette Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development

Estela M. Bensimon, Ed.D.

Founder
USC Center for Urban Education

Maria Blanco

Former Executive Director
UC Immigrant Legal Services Center

Sally Chen

she/they

Education Equity Policy Manager
Chinese for Affirmative Action

Stella M. Flores, Ph.D.

she/her

Associate Professor of Higher Education and Public Policy
University of Texas at Austin

Saul Geiser, Ph.D.

he/him

Senior Associate
UC Berkeley Center for Studies in Higher Education

Lisa Holder

she/her

President
Equal Justice Society

Sylvia Hurtado, Ph.D.

she/her

Professor of Education
UCLA School of Education and Information Studies

Mayah Lubin

Higher Education Equity Senior Coordinator

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Christopher Nellum, Ph.D.

Executive Director
The Education Trust-West

Gary Orfield, Ph.D.

he/him

Co-Director
The Civil Rights Project at UCLA

Rory O’Sullivan

Federal Policy Consultant

Vincent Pan

he/him

Co-Executive Director
Chinese for Affirmative Action

Chinese for Affirmatice Action

Julie J. Park, Ph.D.

she/her

Associate Professor of Education
University of Maryland, College Park

Jay Rosner

he/him

Executive Director
The Princeton Review Foundation

Thomas A. Saenz

President and General Counsel
MALDEF

Sbeydeh Viveros-Walton

she/her

Director of Higher Education
Public Advocates

J. Luke Wood, Ph.D.

Distinguished Professor & Equity Driven Leader
San Diego State University

In Gratitude

Thank you to previous members of our Advisory Council and Board for their guidance in our work to increase college access and improve student success.