The President’s Diversity Steering Group (PDSG) is composed of key faculty, staff, and students who are advocates for human rights and social justice, and who work together to guide the college's fulfillment of its diversity, equity, inclusion, & belonging mission and goals.

This guidance is achieved through:

• Providing and prioritizing strategic and tactical recommendations in regards to diversifying our community, curriculum, and climate;
• Advising the president and other senior administrators on such matters;
• Measuring and communicating the progress the college has made on achieving its goals;
• Ensuring the college is accountable for its continued growth and development with regards to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

PDSG Members

Leadership Team:

• Tina Takemoto, Dean of Humanities & Sciences Division / PDSG Co-chair
• George Luis Sedano, Vice President for Student Affairs / PDSG Co-chair
• Tammy Rae Carland, Provost
• Michael Nakada, Program Manager, Academic Affairs

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging Task Force:

• Julie Kirgis, Associate Provost for Faculty & Academic Partnerships
• Maira Lazdins, Associate Vice President of Human Resources
• Gesita Tafesse, Assistant Dean of Students for Diversity, Inclusion, & Community Engagement
• Adriana Lopez Lobovits, Special Assistant & Board Liaison, Office of the President
• Omer Minhas, Director of Institutional Research

Constituency Representatives:

Students

• Alistair Bottorff, Student - Animation / CCA Student Council
• Mary Graham, Student - Painting & Drawing / Students of Color Coalition
• Nanami Yokota, Student - Film / CCA Student Council

Faculty

• David Asari, Senior Adjunct, Graphic Design / Faculty of Color Alliance
• Genevieve Hyacinthe, Assistant Professor, Visual Studies / Faculty of Color Alliance

Staff

• Nancy Chan, Instructional Technologist, Libraries / Staff Advisory Committee
• Janeece Hayes, Associate Director of Student Life / Staff of Color Coalition

Alumni

• Lisa Jonas, Director of Alumni Engagement / MFA, 2014

Meetings

All members of the CCA community are welcome to attend and participate in PDSG meetings as ad hoc members. To receive meeting reminders and gain access to meeting notes, please add your name to the PDSG mailing list (see below).

To access meeting notes:

• PDSG mailing list members, please login to your CCA Google account; In Google drive search for PDSG Meeting Notes.

Mailing Lists

If you would like to be added to the mailing lists for the groups below in order to receive important updates and reminders please login to your CCA Google account and click on the links below:

• PDSG (to join, search for "PDSG" Google Group. How to join a Google Group.)
• Staff of Color Alliance
• Faculty of Color Alliance

PDSG Sponsorship Grants

Seeking funds to help support your DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging) activity or event taking place during the current academic year? Please use the form below to request funding support from the PDSG for your event or special request.

PDSG funds are primarily earmarked to support campus-wide DEIB initiatives and programs. While PDSG welcomes requests for any initiatives that promote DEIB in the broadest sense, initiatives that focus on topics of domestic racial and ethnic diversity - with the primary audience being CCA students, faculty, staff - will receive priority consideration.

• 2021-2022 PDSG Funds Request Form
• PDSG Funded DEI Initiatives

Racial Justice & Equity Initiatives

Please use the form below to input 1-4 recommendations for racial justice and equity initiatives at CCA.
If you have additional recommendations, feel free to submit additional forms.

• Racial Justice & Equity Initiatives Recommendation Form
• Submitted Recommendations

DiversityEdu

DiversityEdu is a training resource required of all faculty and staff. If you have not yet completed the course and wish to be added to the training site, please email hr@cca.edu.

Banner Photo: Black Lives Matter CCA Community Gathering by: Douglas Sandberg, February 2015
Sponsored by Faculty of Color Research Alliance | Organized by Kim Anno, Professor, Painting & Drawing

Feedback, questions, or suggestions? Please email: diversity@cca.edu