AUHSD Future Talks

This week, Superintendent Matsuda interviews Henry Hua. Mr. Hua has more than 20 years of experience in systems analysis and programming for educational districts and industrial global corporations. He has extensive leadership experience in Smart classroom technology and on-line distance learning, with a strong background in educational technology management in information security. Henry has 15 Years of experience in teaching Vocational Education in the Community College framework in major programming languages, operating hardware and software security, with an emphasis in Database security configurations. Henry Hua is currently the Dean of Business and CIS at Cypress College where he leads the Cybersecurity Program, Cyber Patriots, and Dual Enrollment / Educational Partnerships Program.

Dr. Jose F. Moreno is an associate professor in the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach, where he focuses on Latino education and policy studies. Dr. Moreno was re-elected to the Anaheim City Council in November 2018 representing District 3 in north-central Anaheim. He served as mayor pro tem during 2018.

Dr. Moreno was first elected for a two-year term on the City Council in November 2016. Before joining the Council, Moreno served two terms on the Anaheim City School District Board of Education from 2006 to 2014.

In addition, Dr. Moreno is president of Los Amigos of Orange County, a community group serving people and communities in need. He previously served on the boards of Orange County Community Housing Corp., which provides housing and education to low-income families, and Orange County Communities for Responsible Development, which works to promote participation in local government.

Dr. Bernadette Boden-Albala is the Director and Founding Dean of the Program in Public Health in the Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences at University of California, Irvine, where she is also a Professor of Population Health and Disease Prevention and Epidemiology.

As the Director and Founding Dean of the UCI Program in Public Health, 

Dean Boden-Albala is an internationally recognized expert in the social epidemiology of stroke and cardiovascular disease. She is a member of a statewide panel of experts that inform California’s public health response on the COVID-19 pandemic, and is collaborating with the Orange County Health Authority and UCI faculty on COVID-19 studies to help further the understanding of the virus and its impact on the region. Dr. Boden-Albala is advising local businesses on re-opening strategies and is working with Public Health faculty on a population-wide surveillance of
COVID-19 antibodies in Orange County, and a surveillance project with healthcare workers. She was named Community Hero by the Greater Irvine Chamber in May 2020 for her efforts.

In this week's episode, AUHSD Superintendent interview Dr. Stephanie Reyes, Tuccio. Dr. Reyes-Tuccio is the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Educational Partnerships and Director of the Center for Educational Partnerships, UC Irvine’s campus hub for outreach. 

The Center for Educational Partnerships creates collaborations to support preparation for and success in higher education. It houses over 25 programs that work with over 10,000 students, nearly 3,000 teachers and over 3,500 parents annually in more than 1200 schools across Southern California. Prior to this position Reyes-Tuccio served as the Director of the UCI History Project, partnering the UCI History Department with local K-12 districts in numerous state, federal and private grants. In this capacity, Reyes-Tuccio provided professional support and curriculum development for teachers throughout Southern California. Reyes-Tuccio has taught in the departments of History, Education, Women’s Studies, and Chicano Latino Studies at UCI as well as several community colleges.

Today we have a special AUHSD Future Talks in Spanish featuring a discussion with Dr. America Bracho and AUHSD Director of Curriculum and Instruction, Mr. Carlos Hernandez.  Dr. Bracho is the Executive Director of Latino Health Access, a center for health promotion and disease prevention located in Santa Ana, California. This center was created under her leadership to assist with the multiple health needs of Latinos in Orange County.

During the discussion, Dr. Bracho discusses how to heal a community, the Latino Health Access Model, how epidemics are reduced to the pockets of poverty,  how aggregated data makes people invisible,  how we move from surviving to thriving post-COVID-19, and provides advice to young people.

Hoy tenemos como invitada especial, America Bracho,  la Directora Ejecutiva de Latino Health Access (LHA), centro para la promoción de salud y prevención de enfermedades, en Santa Ana, California. 

América trabajó como médica en su nativa Venezuela durante varios años y después viajó a EE.UU. para obtener su Maestría en Salud Pública en la Universidad de Michigan; se especializó en  la Educación en Salud y Comportamientos de Salud. Después de completar la Maestría, América creó y dirigió el programa de VIH/SIDA en Latino Family Services en Detroit, Michigan por cuatro años. El programa integró los programas de la educación del VIH y las necesidades confrontadas por la comunidad; la necesidad de trabajos, clases de crianza de los hijos, servicios para la salud de la mujer y tratamientos de drogadicción entre otros.

América ha sido reconocida a nivel local e internacional como una experta en el área de los problemas en la salud de Latinos, educación sobre la salud, minoría de mujeres, competencia cultural, organización y movilización comunitaria,  educación de la diabetes y del VIH. Ha recibido numerosos premios por sus contribuciones en la comunidad Latina.

In this week's episode, AUHSD Superintendent Michael Matsuda interviews Mr. Art Bilger. Mr. Bilger is a venture capitalist who started WorkingNation in 2016 to bring attention to structural unemployment issues, the future of work, the skills gap, and achievable solutions.

During the interview, Mr. Bilger discusses possible solutions to structural unemployment, the importance of education, upskilling, data analytics, and provides some advice to young people.

Mr. Bilger has been an investor in, and director of, various private companies, including Akamai Technologies, where he served as Vice Chairman. He was also president and COO of New World Communications Group; a Founding Partner of Apollo Advisors; and Executive Vice President, Co-head of Corporate Finance at Drexel Burnham Lambert. He serves on the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School Board of Overseers.

In addition, Mr. Bilger is Vice Chairman of the Skirball Cultural Center; a board member of Bet Tzedek; an advisory board member for the Milken Institute Center for the Future of Aging; and on the Executive Committee for the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation. He was an executive producer for the film 20 Feet from Stardom, which won the 2013 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. 

This week's AUHSD Future Talks podcast episode features Dr. Richard Arum.  Dr. Arum is dean of the School of Education and professor of education and (by courtesy) sociology, criminology, law and society at the University of California, Irvine.  He recently served as senior fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from 2013-2015; and director of the Education Research Program at the Social Science Research Council from 2006-2013, where he oversaw the development of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, a research consortium designed to conduct ongoing evaluation of the New York City public schools.  

This week's AUHSD Future Talks episode features Mary Anne Foo.  Ms. Foo is the executive director and founder of the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, Inc. (OCAPICA) a non-profit community based organization serving the diverse and underserved communities in Southern California regarding health, mental health, policy and civic engagement, youth leadership and education, and workforce development.  OCAPICA has over 100 staff who speak 26 languages with programs that serve more than 40,000 community members a year.  OCAPICA is a former CDC National Centers of Excellence in Health Disparities.

Mary Anne has been working for over 30 years on issues affecting diverse populations on national, state and local level at several community and county wide organizations.  She has received numerous honors including the TCWF Sabbatical Award, Legacy Award from Orange County Human Relations, Woman of the Year from former Assemblymember Lou Correa, Southern California Society of Public Health Educators’ Health Educator of the Year, and Unsung Heroine from To the Contrary’s Bonnie Erbe and PBS. Mary Anne has served as Principal Investigator or co-PI to numerous community based participatory research programs in California.  In addition she serves on several boards including, a local hospital, foundation, and other nonprofits.

Episode 7 of AUHSD features, Tim Nguyen, CEO and co-founder of MeridianLink, an Orange County-based company that is the leading provider in loan origination software and digital lending technology. Mr. Nguyen has also been a great supporter of AUHSD and the 5Cs. During the conversation, Mr. Nguyen discusses his story, the importance of soft skills (the 5Cs) in the workforce, artificial intelligence, and his personal goals.

Episode 6 of AUHSD Future Talks features Dr. JoAnna Schilling, who has been President at Cypress College since 2017. She began her career in community colleges as Dean of Arts and Cultural Programs at Rio Hondo College and went on to serve as Vice President of Academic Affairs at both Cerritos and Rio Hondo Colleges. 

Dr. Schilling currently serves on the statewide Affordability, Food & Housing Access Task Force, and has previously served on the California Chief Instructional Officers Executive Board, and as co-chair of the CCCCO Curriculum Inventory project. 

Dr. Schilling has published articles in the Community College Journal of Research and Practice, Community College Enterprise, and Management Learning, in addition to being the author of three Dog Lover Companion books for Perseus Books. She has a doctorate in education from Oregon State University, and MFA in playwriting from Carnegie Mellon University, and a BA in English from Smith College.