The San Diego Imperial Counties Community Colleges Regional Consortium for Workforce Development serves as the regional framework to connect industry sector employers, community college career technical program providers, and students with current and easily accessible information, and to respond as a central point of contact. The Consortium facilitates alignment of the ten colleges in the region with the workforce needs of the ten priority and emergent sectors and encourages high level industry-education partnerships.
Regional Consortium
Regional Chair
Danene Brown, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator
Kay Watson
Program Manager
Molly Ash
Program Specialist
Stephanie Bradley
Employer Relations Liaisons
Cuyamaca College
Monica Rosas, Lead
Grossmont College
Jenni Preciado
Imperial Valley College
Miguel Gutierrez
MiraCosta College
Lynn Bigsby
Palomar College
Angela Tilley-Ruiz
San Diego City College
Karen Overklift
San Diego College of Continuing Education
Rachel Sanchez
San Diego Mesa College
Erica Olmos
San Diego Miramar College
Lance Grob
Southwestern College
Vanessa Barron
Fiscal / Foundation for Grossmont & Cuyamaca Colleges
CEO
Sally Cox
Contracts Analyst
Sue Fisher
SDI Center of Excellence
The objectives of the San Diego & Imperial Center of Excellence (COE) are to build community college capacity to close systemic equity gaps; unify our regional workforce ecosystem; and advocate for equitable changes to policies, processes, and practices in education and economic/workforce development.
Our mission is to help key stakeholders understand regional employers’ workforce needs and our diverse students’ lived experiences.
To this end, we use research to advocate on behalf of students’ and employers’ needs.
Director
Tina Ngo Bartel, Ed.D.
Project Manager
Robert Chu
Labor Market Research Lead
John Edwards
Regional Institutional Research Lead
Eddie Matthews, Ph.D.
