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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 |
Kimberley Harrell | Estrella Mountain Community College |
Stephanie Polliard | GateWay Community College |
Nora Reyes | Mesa Community College |
Lorelei Konopka | Glendale Community College |
CJ Wurster | Phoenix College |
Doug Berry | Paradise Valley Community College |
Edmond Lamperez | Scottsdale Community College |
Susan Wood | Eastern Arizona College |
Bryan Doak | Arizona Western College |
TBD* | Maricopa Community Colleges |
Bernice Portervint | South Mountain Community College |
Stella Perez | Rio Salado College |
William Guerriero | Chandler-Gilbert Community College |
California
Official Representative | Member |
Aisha Lowe* | California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office |
Wei Zhou | Cerritos College |
Colorado
Official Representative | Member |
Russ Rothamer | Aims Community College |
Gillian McKnight-Tutein | Community College of Denver |
Rebecca Woulfe | Front Range Community College |
Kathy Frisbie | 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 |
Rana Brown | Otero Junior College |
Quincy Rose-Sewell | Pueblo Community College |
Beverly Clark III | Red Rocks Community College |
Landon Pirius* | 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 |
Melanie Wilson | Hawai‘i Community College |
Erika Lacro* | University of Hawai‘i System |
Charles Sasaki | Windward Community College |
Kahele Dukelow | University of Hawai‘i Maui College |
Frankie Harriss | Kaua‘i Community College |
Maria Bautista | Kapi‘olani Community College |
Keala Chock | Leeward Community College |
Idaho
Official Representative | Member |
Todd Schwarz* | College of Southern Idaho |
Peggy Bradford | North Idaho College |
Montana
Official Representative | Member |
Stephanie Erdmann | Great Falls College MSU |
Thomas Gallagher | Missoula College UM |
TBD* | Montana University System |
Vicki Trier | City College at MSU Billings |
Sandra Bauman | Helena College |
Stephanie Gray | Gallatin College |
Neil Moisey | 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 |
Adrienne Forgette | San Juan College |
North Dakota
Official Representative | Member |
Kaylyn Bondy* | Bismarck State College |
Kimberli Wray | Williston State College |
Carmen Simone | Dakota College at Bottineau |
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 |
Clifton Sanders* | Salt Lake Community College |
Melanie Jenkins | Snow College |
Washington
Official Representative | Member |
Jessica Clark | Walla Walla Community College |
Carli Schiffner* | Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges |
Jenni Martin | Spokane Community College |
Joyce Hammer | Centralia College |
Wyoming
Official Representative | Member |
Kari Brown-Herbst* | Laramie County Community College |
Roger Humphrey | Eastern Wyoming College |
Clifford Wittstruck | Western Wyoming Community College |