In this episode we speak with the Chief's of Research & Evaluation. The previous leader who moved on to take a promotion, Laura Agnich Chavez and the present leader, Alex Garcia  [influencer ; ) ] both amazing and intelligent leaders, passionate and dedicated to the work of Probation and the valuable staff that create the teams within Alameda County Probation.

In this episode we speak to transparency, safeguarding personally identifiable information, programmatic evaluations internally and externally and working to support our clients and our staff in a wholistic way. 

We also speak to honesty, vulnerability to reflect the humanistic aspect of who we are as people in Probaytion.

Thank you for listening and if you want to know more about us, visit us at probation.acgov.org 

Our very first  episode starts with the visionaries of Alameda County Probation, Chief Marcus Dawal and his Administrative Assistant, Tamika Cotright.

Together, they comprise the first leaders of our organization, discussing the valuable work that probation does and speaking to their perspectives and inspiration of the work. 

We hope you enjoy meeting the "real" people of Probation where, we will have that conversation every month with all aspects of our valuable work of probation.

We hope you join our amazing team, or if you want to know more about us, visit us at probation.acgov.org