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Alliance Members
Chief academic officer represents each member
Each member appoints an official representative to the Alliance. From the pool of official representatives in each WICHE state and territory, one is selected to serve on the 16-member Executive Committee as noted by an asterisk in the list below.
Members and Official Representatives
Arizona
Official Representative | Member |
Paula Livingston | Estrella Mountain Community College |
Tom Nevill | GateWay Community College |
Dennis Mitchell | Mesa Community College |
Lorelei Konopka | Glendale Community College |
CJ Wurster | Phoenix College |
Amardeep Kahlon | Paradise Valley Community College |
Stephanie Polliard | Scottsdale Community College |
Susan Wood | Eastern Arizona College |
Bettina Celis* | Maricopa Community Colleges |
Alice Murillo | South Mountain Community College |
Janelle Elias | Rio Salado College |
Deborah Hardy | Chandler-Gilbert Community College |
California
Official Representative | Member |
John Stanskas | California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office |
Wei Zhou | Cerritos College |
Colorado
Official Representative | Member |
David Oehler | Aims Community College |
Tina Garcia | Community College of Denver |
Rebecca Woulfe | Front Range Community College |
Deborah Coates | Morgan Community College |
Sam Soliman | Northeastern Junior College |
Bobby Pace | Community College of Aurora |
Jacquelyn Gaiters-Jordan | Pikes Peak State College |
Larry McLemore | Lamar Community College |
Lynette Bates | Trinidad State Junior College |
Chelsea Herasingh |
Otero Junior College |
Quincy Rose-Sewell | Pueblo Community College |
Beverly Clark III | Red Rocks Community College |
Sarah Heath* | Colorado Community College System |
Cheryl Calhoun | Arapahoe Community College |
Keith Peterson | Colorado Northwestern Community College |
Hawai‘i
Official Representative | Member |
Susan Nishida | Honolulu Community College |
Kimberley Collins | Hawai‘i Community College |
Della Teraoka* | University of Hawai‘i System |
Melanie Wilson | Windward Community College |
Kahele Dukelow | University of Hawai‘i Maui College |
Frankie Harriss | Kaua‘i Community College |
Nawaʻa Napoleon | Kapi‘olani Community College |
Keala Chock | Leeward Community College |
Idaho
Official Representative | Member |
Tiffany Seeley-Case | College of Southern Idaho |
Lori Barber | College of Eastern Idaho |
Denise Aberle-Cannata* | College of Western Idaho |
Lloyd Duman | North Idaho College |
Montana
Official Representative | Member |
Stephanie Erdmann | Great Falls College MSU |
Thomas Gallagher | Missoula College UM |
Angela DeWolf King* | Montana University System |
Vern Gagnon | City College at MSU Billings |
Sandra Bauman | Helena College |
Stephanie Gray | Gallatin College |
Jennifer Brown | MSU Northern |
Chris Clouse | Flathead Valley Community College |
Rita Kratky | Miles Community College |
Suela Cela | Dawson Community College |
Angela McLean | Bitterroot College |
Johnny MacLean | University of Montana, Western |
Karen VanDaveer | Highlands College |
Nevada
Official Representative | Member |
Jake Hinton-Rivera | Great Basin College |
Jeffrey Alexander* | Truckee Meadows Community College |
New Mexico
Official Representative | Member |
Orlando Griego* | New Mexico Military Institute |
Mark Cal | New Mexico State University Alamogordo |
Michael Ottinger | San Juan College |
North Dakota
Official Representative | Member |
Kaylyn Bondy* | Bismarck State College |
Zahi Atallah | Williston State College |
Oregon
Official Representative | Member |
Donna Lewelling* | Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission |
South Dakota
Official Representative | Member |
Carol Grode-Hanks | Mitchell Technical Institute |
Tiffany Howe | Western Dakota Technical Institute |
Benjamin Valdez | Southeast Technical Institute |
Barb Kleinjan* | Lake Area Technical College |
Nick Wendell | South Dakota Board of Technical Education |
Utah
Official Representative | Member |
Jason Pickavance* | Salt Lake Community College |
Michael Austin | Snow College |
Washington
Official Representative | Member |
Thomas Broxson | Clover Basin Technical College |
Dante Leon | Walla Walla Community College |
Valerie Sundby* | Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges |
Jaclyn Jacot | Spokane Community College |
Connie Smejkal | Centralia College |
Wyoming
Official Representative | Member |
Kari Brown-Herbst* | Laramie County Community College |
John Hansen | Eastern Wyoming College |
Clifford Wittstruck | Western Wyoming Community College |