Board of Directors
Bonnie Prouty Castrey, Board Chair
Mediator/Arbitrator/Factfinder
Board President, Huntington Beach UnHSD
CCS Board Chair
Bonnie Castrey received her Juris Doctorate Degree at Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, CA in 1992. She attained her B.S.in Nursing, Magna Cum Laude, at California State University Long Beach, CA, 1972 and her R.N. at Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Buffalo, NY, 1964. Read More.
Janet Walden, Ex-Officio
President & CEO
Center for Collaborative Solutions
Kathy B. Lewis, Ex-Offiicio
Vice President & COO
Center for Collaborative Solutions
DeVera Heard, Secretary
Principal Administrator, Independent Study & Community Day Intermediate/High Schools
Santa Ana USD
CCS Board Secretary
Dr. DeVera H. Heard has been an educator for 30 years. She was a teacher for 10 years ingifted and talented program and the rest of her career has been as an administrator at the elementary, intermediate, and high school levels. Read More.
Clancy Faria, Treasurer
Past President, PORAC
CCS Board Treasurer
Clancy is a retired public safety officer having served over thirty-five years in municipal and county law enforcement. He retired from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department in 2004. His specialties included disaster and critical incident response and command. He served as President of the Peace Officers Research Association of California for four years and Vice-President of the California Peace Officers Memorial Foundation for seven years. Read More.
Jeff Breseman, At Large
Director, Human Resources
E & J Gallo Wintery
Jeff has over twenty years of human resources experience in assignments of progressively more responsibility. After graduating from Purdue University, he started his career with Inland Steel Company, working in recruiting, compensation, and labor relations. He negotiated that company’s first skill-based compensation system. Later, he spent eight years with Kraft Foods at various union and non-union sites. Prior to joining E.&J. Gallo Winery, he was the top HR executive for Paramount Farms, Inc., the world’s largest producer and packager of pistachio nuts. He is a member of the Florida bar. In his current role as Director of Labor Relations, Jeff provides human resources and contract administration support for all of Gallo’s operating facilities.
Martin Gonzalez
Assistant Executive Director, Governance & Policy Services
California School Board Association (CSBA)
Martin Gonzalez brings a strong background in public policy and leadership to his current position of assistant executive director, governance and policy services at the California School Board Association. Read More.
Ruben Ingram
Executive Director
School Employers Association of California (SEAC)
Dr. Ruben Ingram is the Executive Director of School Employers Association of California. He is the former Executive Director of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, and prior to that was District Superintendent for the Fountain Valley School District. Read More.
Janet Jones
Field Director
California School Employees Association (CSEA)
Kellee McQuinn
Founder
KidTribe
Kid expert and fitness guru, Kellee is nicknamed “the Pied Piper with a Boom Box” by the LA Times and has been featured on PBS, Discovery Kids, ABC News, KTLA, BBC, E! and Exercise TV. In 2002 she founded KidTribe, an international children’s obesity prevention fitness and nutrition education program in over 1000 schools with nearly 1.5 million participating kids and thousands of trained teachers throughout California and the UK, and has single-handedly evoked a new paradigm of physical education with her trend-setting activities, sweat-inducing instructional DVD’s, high-octane live events, school assemblies, teacher trainings and contagious cutting-edge approach.
Julien Minard
Director of Training
California Federation of Teachers (CFT)
Julien Minard has been working in dispute resolution in many ways for many years as an advocate, negotiator, mediator, facilitator and trainer. Julien taught in the public school system at various levels: junior high, senior high, California State University at Long Beach and the Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) at the University of Oregon. While a public school teacher, Julien was president of AFT #2317, the ABC Federation of Teachers in southern California. Read More.
Rafael Miranda
President
Teamsters Local 624
Rafael Miranda has been a Union Official for almost his entire working career. He is currently the Principal Officer of Teamsters Local 624 representing Marin, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino Counties. He has been a member of the Teamsters Union for 37 years. He has also served as the Executive Officer for the International Woodworkers of America, AFL-CIO in the Northern California Timber Counties. Read More.
Tia Quinn
Out-of-School Time Consultant
CEO, BOOST Collaborative
For more than 15 years, Tia Quinn has worked in the field of after school, supporting out-of school time programs throughout the nation via training, technical assistance, quality assurance, and program development. In addition to serving not-for-profits in Hartford, CT and San Diego, Tia served for 5 years as the Co Lead for Region 9 Technical Assistance Center, After School programs … Read More.
Annie Song-Hill
Presiding Conciliator
State Mediation & Conciliation Service (SMCS)
Annie has been working in human resource management, organizational development, and as neutral facilitator and mediator for the past thirty years. She is skilled in all aspects of human resource work including classification, pay, recruitment and employee and labor relations as well as conflict management, mediation, facilitation and training. Read More.
Dom Summa
Assistant Executive Director
California Teachers Association (CTA)
Dom Summa has been on the professional staff of the California Teachers Association for twenty-seven years. He currently manages the Negotiations and Organizational Development Department consisting of specialists located throughout the state, who provide support to field staff and chapter leaders in the areas of negotiations, training, Organizational Development, school finance and research. Read More.
Ex-Officio:
Davis Campbell
Local Government Consultant
Cities, Counties and Schools Partnership
Kathy B. Lewis
CCS VP and COO
Center for Collaborative Solutions
Jackson Parham
Attorney
Andelson, Atkinson, Loya, Ruud & Romo
Janet Walden
CCS President and CEO
Center for Collaborative Solutions
Bob Wells
Executive Director
Association of California School Administrators
(ACSA)
Bonnie Prouty Castrey, Board ChairMediator/Arbitrator/Factfinder
Board President, Huntington Beach UnHSD
CCS Board Chair
Bonnie Castrey received her Juris Doctorate Degree at Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, CA in 1992. She attained her B.S.in Nursing, Magna Cum Laude, at California State University Long Beach, CA, 1972 and her R.N. at Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, Buffalo, NY, 1964. Read More.
Janet Walden, Ex-OfficioPresident & CEO
Center for Collaborative Solutions
Kathy B. Lewis, Ex-OffiicioVice President & COO
Center for Collaborative Solutions
DeVera Heard, SecretaryPrincipal Administrator, Independent Study & Community Day Intermediate/High Schools
Santa Ana USD
CCS Board Secretary
Dr. DeVera H. Heard has been an educator for 30 years. She was a teacher for 10 years ingifted and talented program and the rest of her career has been as an administrator at the elementary, intermediate, and high school levels. Read More.
Clancy Faria, TreasurerPast President, PORAC
CCS Board Treasurer
Clancy is a retired public safety officer having served over thirty-five years in municipal and county law enforcement. He retired from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department in 2004. His specialties included disaster and critical incident response and command. He served as President of the Peace Officers Research Association of California for four years and Vice-President of the California Peace Officers Memorial Foundation for seven years. Read More.
Jeff Breseman, At Large
Director, Human Resources
E & J Gallo Wintery
Jeff has over twenty years of human resources experience in assignments of progressively more responsibility. After graduating from Purdue University, he started his career with Inland Steel Company, working in recruiting, compensation, and labor relations. He negotiated that company’s first skill-based compensation system. Later, he spent eight years with Kraft Foods at various union and non-union sites. Prior to joining E.&J. Gallo Winery, he was the top HR executive for Paramount Farms, Inc., the world’s largest producer and packager of pistachio nuts. He is a member of the Florida bar. In his current role as Director of Labor Relations, Jeff provides human resources and contract administration support for all of Gallo’s operating facilities.
Martin GonzalezAssistant Executive Director, Governance & Policy Services
California School Board Association (CSBA)
Martin Gonzalez brings a strong background in public policy and leadership to his current position of assistant executive director, governance and policy services at the California School Board Association. Read More.
Ruben IngramExecutive Director
School Employers Association of California (SEAC)
Dr. Ruben Ingram is the Executive Director of School Employers Association of California. He is the former Executive Director of the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, and prior to that was District Superintendent for the Fountain Valley School District. Read More.
Janet Jones
Field Director
California School Employees Association (CSEA)
Kellee McQuinnFounder
KidTribe
Kid expert and fitness guru, Kellee is nicknamed “the Pied Piper with a Boom Box” by the LA Times and has been featured on PBS, Discovery Kids, ABC News, KTLA, BBC, E! and Exercise TV. In 2002 she founded KidTribe, an international children’s obesity prevention fitness and nutrition education program in over 1000 schools with nearly 1.5 million participating kids and thousands of trained teachers throughout California and the UK, and has single-handedly evoked a new paradigm of physical education with her trend-setting activities, sweat-inducing instructional DVD’s, high-octane live events, school assemblies, teacher trainings and contagious cutting-edge approach.
Julien MinardDirector of Training
California Federation of Teachers (CFT)
Julien Minard has been working in dispute resolution in many ways for many years as an advocate, negotiator, mediator, facilitator and trainer. Julien taught in the public school system at various levels: junior high, senior high, California State University at Long Beach and the Labor Education and Research Center (LERC) at the University of Oregon. While a public school teacher, Julien was president of AFT #2317, the ABC Federation of Teachers in southern California. Read More.
Rafael MirandaPresident
Teamsters Local 624
Rafael Miranda has been a Union Official for almost his entire working career. He is currently the Principal Officer of Teamsters Local 624 representing Marin, Sonoma, Lake and Mendocino Counties. He has been a member of the Teamsters Union for 37 years. He has also served as the Executive Officer for the International Woodworkers of America, AFL-CIO in the Northern California Timber Counties. Read More.
Tia QuinnOut-of-School Time Consultant
CEO, BOOST Collaborative
For more than 15 years, Tia Quinn has worked in the field of after school, supporting out-of school time programs throughout the nation via training, technical assistance, quality assurance, and program development. In addition to serving not-for-profits in Hartford, CT and San Diego, Tia served for 5 years as the Co Lead for Region 9 Technical Assistance Center, After School programs … Read More.
Annie Song-HillPresiding Conciliator
State Mediation & Conciliation Service (SMCS)
Annie has been working in human resource management, organizational development, and as neutral facilitator and mediator for the past thirty years. She is skilled in all aspects of human resource work including classification, pay, recruitment and employee and labor relations as well as conflict management, mediation, facilitation and training. Read More.
Dom SummaAssistant Executive Director
California Teachers Association (CTA)
Dom Summa has been on the professional staff of the California Teachers Association for twenty-seven years. He currently manages the Negotiations and Organizational Development Department consisting of specialists located throughout the state, who provide support to field staff and chapter leaders in the areas of negotiations, training, Organizational Development, school finance and research. Read More.
Ex-Officio:
Davis Campbell
Local Government Consultant
Cities, Counties and Schools Partnership
Kathy B. Lewis
CCS VP and COO
Center for Collaborative Solutions
Jackson Parham
Attorney
Andelson, Atkinson, Loya, Ruud & Romo
Janet Walden
CCS President and CEO
Center for Collaborative Solutions
Bob Wells
Executive Director
Association of California School Administrators
(ACSA)
