Steve Trippe is a thirty-plus year veteran in youthwork, beginning his career as a direct service provider working in the Mission District of San Francisco. He is currently President and Executive Director of New Ways to Work, where he has worked for the past 23 years. New Ways is a nationally recognized technical assistance organization focused on supporting communities in building comprehensive local youth-serving systems, and improving practice in those organizations that serve young people.  New Ways helps communities work together to prepare youth for success.

Currently Steve serves on California’s National Governors Association “Home Team” on Foster Youth Transition and co-chairs its employment sub-committee. He also serves on the Executive Steering Committee of the Youth Policy Action Center, and is a member of California’s Youth Vision Team. He is a newly appointed Board Member of the National Foster Care Coalition, a member of the National Mentoring Partnership and the National Child Labor Council, and past chair of the National Youth Employment Coalition. He also served as the president of the Monte Rio Union School District and is a former member of the National School-to-Work Advisory Council. He has been involved with the development of youth employment, youth development, and education policy and implementation on the national, state and local levels. His background includes serving as Senior Consultant to the Industry Education Council of California and extensive direct service experience with the CYO of the Bay Area, the San Francisco Art Commission, and as a music teacher in the public schools.  


Charlene Mouille, Vice-President

Charlene Mouille has over 15 years of experience in the Employment and
Training/Education Field. In addition to serving as Vice President for New
Ways to Work, Charlene is currently managing the Youth Council Institute
and Communities and Schools for Career Success (CS2) as well as providing
targeted technical assistance to local communities on building youth
leadership development capacity.

Charlene co-managed the Employer and Labor, Work-Based Learning project
funded by the California Employment Development Department and has worked
with local Youth Councils and School-to-Career partnerships to develop and
implement strategic plans. Charlene serves on the Sonoma County Youth
Council.

Previously, Charlene was the Associate Director for a multi-service
non-profit agency with responsibility for Youth Employment and Training
(including School-to-Work), Adult Welfare to Work, Teen Youth Development,
and School-Based Counseling and Prevention programs. She participated
actively in the development of the Sonoma County School-to-Career
Partnership and Sonoma County Education and Employment Services Council
(Youth Council).


Akili Moses Israel , Director, Education Initiatives

Akili Moses Israel has been dedicated to educational improvement since her start working with San Francisco Bay Area schools in 1995. She has worked in several organizations committed to systemic school district improvement. Previously, Akili worked for LEED-Sacramento (Linking Education & Economic Development), a nonprofit organization managing regional workforce preparation and development in various roles including acting CEO and Director of Educational Development. Her work primarily focused on providing technical assistance to high schools and districts to create educational systems and environments that work to increase educational, emotional and social success for all young people.   
 
Prior to her work with LEED, she served in various capacities to support education organizations in their efforts to achieve educational excellence including School Improvement Facilitator, School Coach, External Evaluator, Education Researcher and Director of School Redesign. Her more recent work included supporting school conversations to smaller learning communities and developing small autonomous schools created to improved success for young people to be prepared for life after high school.
 
In her role as Director, Education Initiatives for New Ways , Akili is managing the Diploma Plus expansion in California , as well as its other education endeavors.

Brenda Barry has over 18 years' experience in workforce development and education reform, particularly with developing connections between education and business entities. Brenda is currently managing the Intermediary Network (INet) and the Sonoma County Work-Ready Certification program for New Ways. In addition, Brenda runs a national consulting firm specializing in education reform, workforce preparation, and economic development.

Previously, Brenda served as Executive Director of LEED-Sacramento (Linking Education & Economic Development), a nonprofit organization managing regional workforce preparation and development.

Gloria M. Pineda is the Education Program Specialist/School Coach at New Ways to Work.  Her work focuses predominantly on professional development that supports performance-based instruction, curriculum design, and culturally responsive pedagogy for the Diploma Plus Initiative.  In addition, Ms. Pineda is responsible for creating and maintaining curriculum and training documents and manuals for the California Diploma Plus Network.

Prior to working at New Ways to Work, Ms. Pineda served as the Diploma Plus New England Network Manger for the Commonwealth Corporation. As the New England Manger, she managed the overall implementation of Diploma Plus Model and served as liaison between Center Youth Development Education staff and other regional and network partners.

Before joining Commonwealth Corporation, Gloria M. Pineda was a GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs) Program Coordinator and Interim Counseling Coordinator for Salem State College’s Upward Bound Program.  In these two capacities, she designed and managed outreach programs to increase post-secondary awareness and academic access for students from various socio-economic backgrounds, including first generation students. Ms. Pineda has eleven years of experience in the education field as a former classroom teacher and manger. Ms. Pineda received her Bachelors degree from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and has a Masters Degree in Education from Cambridge College.



Lisa Elliott, Project Coordinator

Linda England, Fiscal Manager

Cristina Holloway, Executive Assistant

Steve Killey, Tech Manager

Kellie Noe, Project Coordinator

Heidi Peyser, Project Associate