Regional Catalysts & Executive Board
Executive Board 2024-25
| Position | Person | Contact Information |
| President | Laurel Doyle 2024-26 Cosumnes River College |
doylel@crc.losrios.edu |
| Treasurer | Thesa Roepke 2024-26 Allan Hancock CollegeThesa is a Department Chair of Applied Behavior Sciences and Professor of Early Childhood Studies at Allan Hancock College. Thesa has been a member of CCCECE since 2010 and has served as a Regional Catalyst in Region 6 for many years. Thesa is currently serving as Treasurer. |
troepke@hancockcollege.edu |
| Secretary | Alice Hampton 2024-26 Santa Rosa Junior College |
ahampton@santarosa.edu |
| VP Membership | Sondra Moe 2024-26 Sondra is a Retired Professor of Child Development from Rio Hondo College, having served as Faculty Coordinator for the Rio Hondo Child Development Center. Previously she has been an adjunct faculty at CSULA and Director of Children’s House and adjunct faculty at Utah State University. Sondra has been a member of CCCECE since 2007 and has served as VP of Public Policy South and President. Through the years with CCCECE she has volunteered to assist with membership tasks. She hopes to culminate that work as VP of Membership. |
cccecemembership@gmail.com or sondramoe@hotmail.com |
| VP Public Policy – North | Tony Ayala 2023-25 Solano CollegeTony Ayala is a full-time instructor of Child Development and Family studies at Solano Community College. He began his career in early childhood in the late 1900’s while teaching after-school, preschool, infants, and toddlers. He went on to become a mentor teacher for Diablo Valley College and later was hired by DVC as a part time instructor. He joined the California Community College Early Childhood Educators (CCCECE) in 2012, served on the board as the Region 3 Catalyst in 2015 and in 2021 was elected Vice President of Public Policy North. He has previously written and presented for the Faculty Initiative Project through WestEd and is currently a PEACH Steering Committee member and serves on his Local Planning Council. |
Anthony.ayala@solano.edu |
| VP Public Policy – South | Donna Cecil 2024-26 San Diego College  Donna (she/her) is a part-time instructor at San Diego Mesa College in the Child Development Department. Previously she served as the San Diego Community College Program Director for the campus lab schools. She began her early childhood career working at Marine World Africa USA taking animals to bay area preschools. Donna has served previously as a Catalyst for CCCECE. |
dcecil@sdccd.edu |
| VP Program – North | Michelle St. Germaine 2024-26 Merritt College |
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| VP Program – South | LaTanga Hardy 2023-25 Los Angeles Trade Tech |
hardylg@lattc.edu |
| VP Public Relations | Kristina Brower 2023-25 Cañada College  Kristina, (she/her) is a full time Faculty and Program Coordinator at Cañada College’s Education and Human Development Program where she is also an alumni. Previously she was an adjunct faculty member, Program Services Coordinator, and a Child Development Lab Center Master Teacher at Skyline College. Kristina has been a member of CCCECE since 2017, and feels that being active in the executive board has helped her to connect and learn from early professionals across the state. Kristina has served on CCCECE as a catalyst, VP of memberships and now in her current role as VP of public relations where she hopes to help connect members and share important information about children, families, and the early learning workforce. |
brower@smccd.edu |
| Catalyst Liaison | Jenny Fererro 2023-25 Palomar College  Jenny Fererro (she/her) is a professor in the Child Development & Education department at Palomar College and has been actively involved in shared governance and social justice issues throughout her 19 years as a full-time faculty member. In addition to being a former department chair and current/past representative on many committees and councils, she is currently the Faculty Senate Vice President, the lead negotiator for the Palomar Faculty Federation, and the liaison to the Early Childhood Education Lab School. Jenny is the elected Catalyst Liaison for California Community College Early Childhood Educators (CCCECE) and a former Region 10 catalyst, and serves on several steering committees and boards, including San Diego American Association for Women in Community Colleges (SDAAWCC). Jenny is the author of a book for ECE professionals titled Guidance for Supporting Gender Diversity in Early Childhood Education which was published by Gryphon House in fall 2022 and is a current doctoral student in Community College Leadership. |
jfererro@palomar.edu |
| Lab School Liaison | Brianne Ayala 2023-25 Contra Costa College  Brianne Ayala is a full- time Faculty at Contra Costa College for the Early Childhood Development Program where 80% of her load is supervising the on campus Early Childhood Lab School. She has been full time since 2019. Previously, Brianne was an adjunct instructor at Contra Costa College, Diablo Valley College and Solano College. While teaching adjunct, she was also the Early Childhood Specialist (Master Teacher) in the lab school at Diablo Valley College. Brianne has been a member of CCCECE since 2016 and soon became a Catalyst. She feels that the connections she made with colleagues at CCCECE meetings are what helped her to reach her goal of obtaining a full-time position. She wanted to be the lab school liaison so she could advocate for early childhood lab schools throughout the state. |
bayala@contracosta.edu |
Regional Catalysts 2024-25
Catalyst Liaison: Jenny Fererro, Palomar College
jfererro@palomar.edu
| Regions and Colleges | Catalyst | Catalyst | |
| Region 1 Butte Feather River Lassen Shasta |
Siskiyous Woodland Yuba |
Denice Burbach Yuba College dburbach@yccd.edu TERM ENDS: 6/30/2025 |
Jeanne Veich Shasta College jveich@shastacollege.edu TERM ENDS: 6/30/2026 |
| Region 2 American River Columbia Cosumnes Folsom Lake Lake Tahoe |
Merced Modesto Sacramento City San Joaquin Delta Sierra |
Adrienne Seegers Columbia College seegers@yosemite.edu TERM ENDS: 6/30/2025 |
Gisele Flores Modesto Junior College floresg@yosemite.edu TERM ENDS: 6/30/2026 |
| Region 3 Alameda Berkeley City Chabot Contra Costa Diablo Valley Laney Las Positas Los Medanos |
Marin Mendocino Merritt Napa Valley Ohlone Redwoods Santa Rosa Solano |
Michell Naidoo Contra Costa College mnaidoo@contracosta.edu TERM ENDS: 6/30/2026 |
Randi Osburn Los Medanos College rosburn@losmedanos.edu TERM ENDS: 6/30/2025 |
| Region 4 Cabrillo Canada De Anza Evergreen Foothill Gavilan Hartnell Mission |
Monterey Peninsula San Francisco San Jose City San Mateo Skyline West Valley |
Willy Kwong Mission College willy.kwong@missioncollege.edu TERM ENDS: 6/30/2025 |
VACANT TERM ENDS: 6/30/2024 |
| Region 5 Bakersfield Cerro Coso Fresno City Porterville Reedley |
Sequoias Taft West Hills (Coalinga/Lemoore) |
Ric Swallow Reedley College richell.swallow@reedleycollege.edu TERM ENDS: 6/30/2025 |
Heather Boynton Clovis College heather.boynton@cloviscollege.edu TERM ENDS: 6/30/2026 |
| Region 6 Alan Hancock Cuesta Moorpark |
Oxnard Santa Barbara Ventura |
Helen “Winkie” Cooper TERM ENDS: 6/30/2025 |
Thesa Roepke TERM ENDS: 6/30/2026 |
| Region 7 Antelope Valley Canyons Compton East LA El Camino Glendale LA City LA Harbor |
LA Mission LA Pierce LA Southwest LA Trade Tech LA Valley Pasadena Santa Monica West LA |
Deborah Owens Glendale Community College deboraho@glendale.edu TERM ENDS: 6/30/2025 |
LaShawn Brinson Los Angeles Southwest College brinsoll@lasc.edu TERM ENDS: 6/30/2026 |
| Region 8 Cerritos Coastline Cypress Fullerton Golden West Irvine Valley |
Long Beach Orange Coast Saddleback Santa Ana Santiago Canyon |
Le Tresse Trahan Grissom TERM ENDS: 6/30/2025 |
VACANT TERM ENDS: 6/30/2024 |
| Region 9 Barstow Chaffey Citrus Copper Mountain Crafton Hills Desert |
Mt. San Antonio Mt. San Jacinto Rio Hondo Riverside San Bernardino Victor Valley |
Sandy Visser-Jones TERM ENDS: 6/30/2026 |
Annette Franquez Victor Valley College annette.franquez@vvc.edu TERM ENDS: 6/30/2025 |
| Region 10 Cuyamaca Grossmont Imperial Valley Mira Costa Palo Verde |
Palomar San Diego City San Diego Mesa San Diego Miramar Southwestern |
Becky Green Imperial Valley College becky.green@imperial.edu TERM ENDS: 6/30/2025 |
Maura Mehrian TERM ENDS: 6/30/2026 |