STEERING COMMITTEE
Ashley Swearengin, President and CEO, Central Valley Community Foundation, Former Mayor, Fresno
Michele Siqueiros, President, Campaign for College Opportunity
Sam Blakeslee, Founding Director, Institute for Advanced Technology and Public Policy, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; former California State Senator, Assemblyman, and Assembly Republican Leader
Virginia Hamilton, former Regional Administrator, U.S. Department of Labor
Kathay Feng, National Redistricting Director, Common Cause; former Executive Director, California Common Cause
Pete Peterson, Dean & Senior Fellow, Pepperdine School of Public Policy, Davenport Institute, Pepperdine University
David B. Smith, CEO, X Sector Labs; former Managing Director, Presidio Institute; Co-Founder of CalOZ
Jonathan Stein, Executive Director, California Common Cause
Duf Sundheim, Member, U.S. Fed. Court Advanced Mediation Practice Group; Principal, GPS Mediation; former Chair, CA Republican Party
Pete Weber, former Vice-President, FMC Corporation; former CEO, TeKnowledge, Inc.; former CEO, Riverbend International; Founder and Chair, Fresno Bridge Academy; Co-Chair California Forward
Zabrae Valentine, Collaborative Convenor; Co-founder, CA Forward and the CA Forward Action Fund
PAST STEERING COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Lande Ajose, Senior Policy Advisor for Higher Education, Office of Governor Gavin Newsom; former Executive Director, California Competes
Lenny Mendonca, Collaborative Convenor; former Chief Business and Economic Adviser, Office of Governor Gavin Newsom; Senior Partner Emeritus, Washington D.C. and San Francisco offices of McKinsey & Company
REVIEW PANEL
All of the Collaborative’s ‘consensus positions’ are first reviewed for accuracy by these folks, then circulated with all Collaborative partners for comment, and then shared for endorsements.
Caroline Danielson, Policy Director and Senior Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California
David Grusky, Professor of Sociology; Director, Center on Poverty and Inequality, Stanford University
Hilary Hoynes, Professor of Economics and Public Policy; Co-Director, Opportunity Lab, University of California Berkeley
Jesse Rothstein, Professor of Economics and Public Policy; Director, Institute for Research on Labor and Employment; Director, California Policy Lab; Co-Director, Opportunity Lab, University of California Berkeley
Sarah Bohn, Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California
PARTNERS
The Collaborative considers all signatories to our Consensus Positions to be partners in our work, and they are consulted in and help inform all major program decisions.
DIRECTOR
Zabrae Valentine