Heidi M. Coronado- Heidi has been an educator and student advocate for 14 years.  She has played many roles in the educational system and has worked in various educational settings in the U.S. and internationally from the kindergarten to the university level as a teacher, counselor, parent educator, college and university instructor, educational consultant and community activist.  She is a doctoral candidate in the Educational Studies department at Claremont Graduate University.  Heidi's work has been primarily with  low-income underrepresented, Latino, and immigrant communities.


Sharon Cruz McKinney- Sharon is the Founder and Director of University of La Verne Master's Academy, Ms. Cruz-Mckinney has over thirty years of college admission and recruitment experience at public and private universities in New York and California.  She received her Bachelor of Science in Education from New York University and a Master of Public Administration from California State University, Long Beach in California. She has served as a member and officer of several state and national educational organizations.


Stacey Doran- Stacy earned both her Bachelors of Art in International Business and Masters in Education at Whittier College.  Her research focus for her Masters Degree was on the achievement gap between public and charter schools in Los Angeles Unified School District.  She started her career in higher education working in Whittier College's Office of Financial Aid.  The next year she switched to the Office of Admission, where she took over the Outreach and Multicultural Recruitment Program.  Her recruiting territories include the state of Nevada and various counties in California.


Esther Hugo- Dr. Hugo serves as the Project Manager for the District Directions Project.  She is a professor in the Loyola Marymount University School of Education and serves as the Academic Coordinator for the UCLA College Counseling Certificate Program.  A Past President of Western ACAC,she is the Chair of the Inter-Association Committee.  Esther has also served as the NACAC Coordinator for Multicultural Concerns and has twice served as a NACAC Board Director and as a College Board Trustee.


John Kuhlmann- John has worked in public education for over 11 years.  He has worked in school counseling since 2008, and has served in various capacities including intervention counseling as well as college counseling.  Throughout his career, he has focused on assisting historically underrepresented students and families at both the middle school and high school levels.  John also works as an admission reader for UCLA.  He is a first generation immigrant and was the first in his family to graduate from college.  He holds a BA in Sociology and an MS in Counseling both from California State University, Los Angeles.


Rachel Livingston- Rachel has been an educator in LAUSD for 17 years, the past 11 as a counselor at a large comprehensive high school and currently at the Helen Bernstein complex of 3 high schools in Hollywood, CA.  She has extensive experience working with underrepresented minority populations in all steps of the college admissions process.  She has served as a trainer on counseling issues for the College Board and the National Office on School Counselor Advocacy, as well as serving on the Western ACAC Executive Board as an elected delegate.


Carmen Lopez- Carmen is a member of the Dine Nation and directs a national non-profit, College Horizons Inc., which provides college and graduate admissions workshops to American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian high school and College students.  Carmen previously directed the Harvard University Native American Program and served as an admissions reader for the Kennedy School of Government's Masters of Public Policy program.  Carmen earned a BA from Dartmouth College and an EdM from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.


Leslee Lovato- Leslee is a Native American Recruitment and Retention Specialist at Colorado State University and works as the Assistant Director for the Native American Cultural Center and the Office of Admissions.  Leslee is Northern Arapaho/Rosebud Lakota, received her BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is working on her Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Regis University.  She has worked in higher education, specifically in Native American recruitment and retention for over 15 years.


Katy Murphy- Katy has been active in the profession as a college admissions officer and college counselor for over 30 years.  Katy is a faculty member in the UC Berkeley Extension College Advising program and also speaks regularly on financial aid, the college admissions process, and enrollment planning.  She also serves as the Past President of Western ACAC.


Adrianna Prejna- Adriana graduated from Whittier College in 2007, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Music and Spanish.  Since 2010 she has been working for the college as an Admission Counselor, recruiting in various locations in Southern California as well as Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico.  She also assists with conducting group visits through Whittier's Multicultural Recruitment Program.


Jacquelyn Ross- Jacquelyn is Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok and a member of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria.  She is Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at UC Davis and has worked in recruitment and admissions in the University of California system for 20+ years, specializing in Native American student issues and the concerns of rural agricultural communities.


Reginald Chhen Stewart- Dr. Stewart brings 20 years of equity and diversity leadership experience in higher education to the director of diversity initiatives role.  Prior to coming to Nevada he coordinated the alternative testing accommodations in the Disability Resource Center at San Francisco State University and was Upward Bound coordinator in the federally funded TRIO Program at Houston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas.  He holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership from the University of Nevada, Reno.  Reg is the first in his family to graduate from college.  Through his membership in Alpha Phi Alpha, Stewart continues to mentor young men who wish to graduate from college and obtain graduate and professional degrees.