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Public Engagement Advisory Council

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Ruben Abrica

Ruben Abrica currently serves on the City Council of East Palo Alto.

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Terry Amsler

Terry teaches public engagement-related courses at Indiana University’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs in Bloomington Indiana. 

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Stan Caldwell

Stan Caldwell is currently retired having worked as a computer repair and desktop computer specialist for the past 22 years.

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Gladys Coil

Gladys Coil was appointed Administrative Manager/Clerk of the Board on February 10, 2007.

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Hal Conklin

Hal’s public service includes service as a council member and mayor in the City of Santa Barbara. 

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Oscar E. Cruz

Oscar E. Cruz serves as President  & CEO of Families In Schools.

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Terry Dugan

Terry retired in 2005, after serving on staff for the League of California Cities for some 35 years,

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Sharon Friedrichsen

Sharon Friedrichsen is the Director of Budget and Contracts for the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA.

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Kristine Guerrero

Kristine Guerrero works as a Public Affairs Manager and Legislative Director for the Los Angeles County Division of the League of California Cities.

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Sue Herbers

Sue Herbers recently retired from her post as the elected City Clerk in the city of Torrance after 20 years of service (1994-2014.)

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Ed Honowitz

Ed is a project director with the Californians Dedicated to Education (CDE) Foundation in October 2016. He has a background in education policy, having previously served as education policy advisor for State Senator Carol Liu, who chaired the California Senate Education Committee. His work in the Senate focused on K-12 education policy, school-based health, community schools partnership strategies and cross agency collaboration.

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Maria Elena Kennedy

Maria Elena Kennedy is a water resources consultant who works with Disadvantaged Communities (DACs).

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Malka Kopell

Ms. Kopell is an independent consultant who has been has been helping local governments and state agencies create and implement effective strategies for community engagement for more than 30 years. She has developed and managed engagement processes along the “collaboration continuum,” ranging from gathering public input to working with key stakeholders to co-design and implement programs, in the areas of public budgeting, election reform, neighborhood revitalization, downtown redevelopment, air quality, transportation, recycling, youth development, and public health.  

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Edward (Ted) L. Lascher

Edward (Ted) L. Lascher, Jr. is Professor and Chair, Department of Public Policy and Administration, California State University, Sacramento.

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Ronald O. Loveridge

Ronald O. Loveridge has 33 years of public service – as a Riverside Councilmember beginning in 1979 and as Mayor from 1994 to 2012.

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Noelle Mattock

Noelle Mattock is the Director of the El Dorado Hills CSD Board
Term of Office: Nov 2008 to 2012 and Nov 2012 to 2016

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Cambria Pollinger

Cambria Pollinger has worked in the recreation field for 22 years and has been a Recreation Supervisor for the City of Ceres for the last 18 years. She Attended Stanislaus State University.

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Sarah Rubin

Sarah Rubin is the Outreach and Engagement Coordinator at the California  Department of Conservation.

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Peter Rumble

Peter Rumble serves the County of Sonoma as Deputy County Administrator overseeing the County’s strategic initiatives.

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Tim Snellings

Tim Snellings is the Director of Development Services with Butte County, CA.

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Ashley Trim

Ashley Trim is the Executive Director of the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership.

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Christine Tien

Christine has been the Program Manager for the California Endowment’s Sacramento Building Healthy Communities Initiative since June of 2009.

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