Dear Friends of CaliforniaALL: Quarter 1 – 2010

CaliforniaALL strives to support programs that provide opportunities to insure a pipeline Inside This Issue
of individuals are prepared to successfully lead California’s economic and political future.
In February, I attended University of California, Irvine’s (UCI) Saturday Academy of Law (SAL) New Location 1
Symposium and Workshop—a program that CaliforniaALL is proud to help fund. I witnessed Board Member Spotlight 2
our mission in action.
Saturday Academy of Law—
More than 100 people attended the Symposium dinner; attendees included SAL graduates, Replicating Success 3
their parents, current SAL mentors, UCI law students, volunteers, and those there to learn how California’s Future Leaders 3
to replicate this successful model in their own communities. I invite you to read more about Graduate from SAL
SAL on page 3 of this newsletter and on our web site: www.calall.org/collaborations.html.
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Programs like SAL allow CaliforniaALL to fulfill its goals and mission. And thanks to dedicated
Upcoming Events 3
staff members, donors, consultants, and volunteers, the program can be replicated
throughout the state for maximum impact. Diversity Realized 4
Thank you to our consultant Sarah Attia who did an exceptional job in planning the SAL Staff Updates 4
Symposium and to UCI program administrators Karina Hamilton and Shawn Hill for their Mission Statement 4
tireless hours working to provide SAL participants exceptional, life-long learning
Board of Directors 4
opportunities. And finally, thank you to our generous SAL sponsors—Verizon Foundation
and The University of Phoenix Foundation. Advisory Council 4
Only while working together will are we able to ensure the success and diversity of Stay Connected 4
California’s future workforce and leadership. Contact Information 4

Warm Regards,
Larissa Parecki

Chief Operating Officer & Interim Director

CaliforniaALL has a new mailing address:

7405 Greenback Lane, #150
Citrus Heights, CA 95610
916.792.6182

Thank you to DLA Piper for their generosity to CaliforniaALL in its birth as a nonprofit
organization. By offering pro bono space in their Sacramento office to our staff for the past
two years, DLA Piper has demonstrated that they share our commitment to helping grow the
leadership and workforce of California’s future to more fully reflect our demographics.
Board Member Spotlight
Ophelia Basgal Torie Flournoy England, Ed.D.
Ophelia Basgal is the Vice Torie began her career as
President of Civic Partnership & a high school counselor,
Community Initiatives for Pacific but she quickly became
Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), interested in site leadership
a position she has held since and administration. Her career
September 2005. has led her to many different
Her responsibilities include schools, including her first stint
the management of the as a vice principal of a large
company’s $19 million charitable Stockton, CA high school, then
contribution program, employee to a Sacramento high school.
volunteerism program for From there, Torie served three
PG&E‘s 20,000 employees, and years as vice principal of a
partnership and community new Sacramento junior high
engagement programs with school designed to be one of
community-based organizations. Prior to joining PG&E, Ophelia served 27 California’s top technology schools. She then moved to an inner-city
years as the executive director of the Alameda County Housing Authority. elementary school as a principal. The elementary school’s achievement
Ophelia’s many professional and community affiliations include current and morale was low, as were the expectations for the teachers and
terms on the board of the Alameda County Employees’ Retirement students. Under Torie’s direction, the school experienced dramatic
Association, and a member of the Corporate and Diversity and Inclusion changes, including improving 67 API points within two years. The
Committees of the Council on Foundations, the Public Policy Institute school also saw Hispanic students increase 98 points, English language
of California Statewide Leadership Council, and the California Supreme learns increase 74 points, and economically disadvantaged students
Court Historical Society. increase 73 points.

Ophelia has earned many distinctions, including:
• National Society of Hispanic MBAs–2009 Ultimate Hispanic Executive
• San Francisco Business Times–one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s
most influential Hispanics
• Mexican American Community Services, Inc.–Most Influential
Hispanic in the Silicon Valley, corporate category
• Alameda County Girl’s Inc.–2007 Smart Leadership Award.
Ophelia earned a BA with distinction from Arizona State University and
a master’s degree in Social Welfare Administration from the University
of California, Berkeley.
Torie currently works in California’s newest school district in California,
Twin Rivers Unified School District (TRUSD). TRUSD is the product of a
merger of four pre-existing Sacramento-area school districts. She serves
as the Principal of F.C. Joyce Elementary School.
Torie graduated from California State University, Sacramento in 1997 with
a BA in Psychology. She earned a Pupil Personnel Services credential
and a Master’s degree in Education Counseling-School Counseling from
Chapman University. And, most recently, Torie earned her Ed.D. from
the University of LaVerne in Organizational Leadership. Her dissertation
explored character education and the impact such programs have on
student achievement and creating a safe learning environment.

Frank J. Quevedo
Frank Quevedo is the retired Vice President of Equal Opportunity for • The Women’s Foundation
Southern California Edison, where he had also worked in the early of California
1970’s. Previously, Frank worked for Hunt-Wesson Foods. • WATTSHealth Foundation
Frank has served as chairman of the board of the Mexican American Frank has been named to
Legal Defense and Educational Fund for three terms, and currently the annual “100 Influentials”
serves as a member of the board. He also chairs the Puente Project and list by Hispanic Business
sits on a number of other boards and advisory committees including: Magazine on three separate
• Asian Pacific American Legal Center occasions. He was an
appointee of President
• Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs
Richard Nixon and Governor
• East Los Angeles YMCA Jerry Brown. He also served in
• Liberty Hill Foundation Washington D.C. during the
Reagan administration as the Chief of Staff to U.S. Equal Employment
• Orange County Hispanic Education Endowment Fund
Opportunity Commissioner Tony Gallegos.
• Sabriya’s Castle of Fun Foundation
He earned his BA in Political Science from the University of California
• Cathedral High School Board of Trustees at Riverside.

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Saturday Academy of Law—
Replicating Success
In 2008, CaliforniaALL and its Board of Directors selected to develop the replication program.
the University of California Irvine’s (UCI) Center for
Education for its proven track record in creating and
sustaining successful public-private collaborations.
Using CaliforniaALL’s grant funds, UCI developed and
implemented the Saturday Academy of Law (SAL) program.
And, by 2009, CaliforniaALL’s mission was visibly at work
through the SAL program.
SAL has become a highly successful model and worthy
of replication— it truly creates complete educational
pipelines. To date, 85 ninth graders have graduated
from the program. And, of those 85 graduates, 65
have committed to mentor the 2010 SAL participants!
Additionally, UCI undergraduates volunteer their time
with SAL.
During a three-day symposium in February, interested
teams of program managers descended upon Irvine to
witness the SAL program first-hand. The teams also
attended sessions in order to learn how to replicate the
program in their own communities. The teams, totaling
more than 100 people from Sacramento, Stockton, Davis, California’s Future Leaders Graduate from SAL
Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Anaheim, San Diego,
Orange County, among others, heard from a host of March 6 marked the first step for SAL students to continue their
speakers, including: education knowing that they have the training and ability to pursue
professional careers. The SAL program provides students the ability
• CaliforniaALL Board Chair Victor Miramontes
to gain first-hand knowledge about the legal profession, ultimately
• Orange County Diversity Task Force Member matching ninth grade students with mentors that will help guide them
Marcus Quintanilla through high school. Congratulations to the 50 SAL graduates!
• UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky
• State Assembly Member Jose Solorio
• UCI Student Affairs Vice Chancellor Manuel Gomez
CaliforniaALL is actively seeking additional funding partners

News
January 19, 2010 February 5, 2010
First CaliforniaALL Board of Directors meeting of 2010 UC Irvine Saturday Academy of Law Symposium
Workshop—Irvine, CA
February 4, 2010
February 28, 2010
UC Irvine Saturday Academy of Law Oversight Committee
Meeting—Irvine, CA California Career Pathways Consortia & California Partnership
Academies 2010 Annual Educating for Careers Conference,
February 4, 2010 Orange County, CA
More than 100 people, including past graduates of the SAL program,
parents and current UC Irvine students, attended the UC Irvine Saturday
Academy of Law Symposium Dinner in Irvine, CA

Upcoming Events
May 7, 2010 Second CaliforniaALL Board of Directors meeting of 2010—San Francisco, CA
May 21, 2010 Saturday Academy of Law (SAL) Oversight Committee Meeting—Irvine, CA
July 26–30, 2010 New Energy Academies Summer Institute for CTE teachers—San Ramon, CA
August 2–6, 2010 New Energy Academies Summer Institute for CTE and Academy teachers—San Ramon, CA

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Diversity Realized COO/Interim
Director
Professor Sarah Redfield, a nationally recognized legal among its ranks because we understand Larissa B Parecki
professor and author, released a book titled Diversity the benefits of diversity for our clients and
Realized: Putting the Walk with the Talk for Diversity ourselves, but, as Redfield shows, the bar Board Members
in the Legal Profession. Redfield is an integral part of has not yet realized diversity…This book Ophelia Basgal
CaliforniaALL’s history, having been one of three authors should be read by everybody in the legal Pacific Gas & Electric
of the original concept paper for CaliforniaALL and profession who understands that diversity in Fred Buenrostro
CalPERS, Retired
serving as its initial interim executive director. the profession is being demanded by clients
Torie Flournoy
Amazon.com reviewer called the book: who want quality representation. As Redfield England, Ed.D.
artfully explains, we must change the way Twin Rivers Unified
“a call to action, from an educator and a member of the our young people are educated from the School District
bar. Our profession has been striving to attain diversity bottom up, so that we can realize a truly Jay Ferguson
diverse profession.” Vicente Capital Partners
James Hsu
Squires Sanders &
Dempsey
Freada Kapor Klein
Level Playing
Field Institute
Staff Updates Vision Pat Fong Kushida
Sacramento Asian Pacific
Aimee Madison Scribner CaliforniaALL seeks to close the achievement gap and Chamber of Commerce
enhance the success of California’s students from pre- Victor Miramontes
Aimee serves as a program consultant for CityView
CaliforniaALL, bringing with her a wealth of school to the professions to ensure the education and
diversity of the state’s workforce and leadership. Frank Quevedo
experience ranging from teaching third grade Southern California
to serving as a senior legislative coordinator Mission Edison, Retired
for Sacramento-based Government Solutions Douglas G. Scrivner
Group, LLC. Aimee also served as a legislative CaliforniaALL creates a collaborative partnership among Accenture
aide to California Assembly Member Virginia business, education, government, and the professions on Cary Martin Zellerback
Strom-Martin where she advised Strom-Martin Martin Investment
a statewide basis to ensure a pipeline of individuals are
Management, LLC
on education issues, drafted language for prepared to successfully lead California’s economic and
legislation, and coordinated media relations. political future. Advisory Council
At CaliforniaALL, Aimee serves as an education Joe Coto
expert and works to identify and develop
Work California State Assembly
FIND best practices in career pathways starting with law, Morrison England
programs that further CaliforniaALL’s mission. U.S. District Court, Eastern
Aimee’s lobbying and education experience financial services and technology.
District of California
is often called upon to connect CaliforniaALL FUND education pipelines from pre-school to the Kamala Harris
with other industry leaders. professions that have demonstrated success through SF District Attorney
Aimee earned her BA in Political Science accountability, evaluation and documentation. Judy Johnson
State Bar of California
from the University of California at Berkeley, a FACILITATE the: Henry Jones
California Multiple Subject Teaching Credential Convening of powerful stakeholders; CalPERS
from National University, and her MA in Innovation in collaborative efforts; Patricia Lee
Educational Policy Analysis & Evaluation from Successful communication between State Bar of California
Stanford University. business, education and government; Ted Lieu
Creation of complete education pipelines California State Assembly
by connecting previously disparate efforts. Jack O’Connell
CA Dept. of Education
Michael Peevey
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