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Education Finance Fellows Class of 2019 Education Finance Fellows Class of 2019 Bios * Indicates Fellows new as of 2019. California Massachusetts Senator Connie Leyva* Senator Jason Lewis* House nomination pending House nomination pending Staff nomination pending Doug Howgate* Colorado Mississippi Senator Jeff Bridges Representative Richard Bennett House Nomination Pending David Pray Brita Darling Montana Delaware Senate nomination pending Senator David Sokola Representative Sue Vinton* Representative Debra Heffernan Pad McCracken Alexa Scoglietti Ohio Taylor Hawk Marcus Benjamin Georgia Oklahoma Senate nomination pending Senate nomination pending Representative Robert Dickey* Representative Mark McBride* Sara Arroyo* Staff nomination pending Idaho Oregon Senator Chuck Windor Nominations pending Representative Wendy Horman Washington Illinois Senator Lisa Wellman* Senator Kimberly Lightford House nomination pending Representative Will Davis Jeffrey Naas* Kansas Wisconsin Representative Brenda Dietrich Representative Jeremy Thiesfeldt* Edward Penner Senate nomination pending John Hess Alicia Schweitzer* California While earning my master's degree I met my wife, Senator Connie Leyva* AnnMarie. She noticed my cowboy boots from across Email: [email protected] the room, came over and said, “Nice boots.” Feeling out of place so far from home and thinking she had just insulted me, I shot back, “Look, I’m from Colorado, so House nomination pending I can wear cowboy boots.” Without missing a beat, AnnMarie replied, “Yeah, I’m from Colorado, too, and I like your boots.” Staff nomination pending Email: [email protected] Colorado House Nomination Pending Senator Jeff Bridges I grew up [in Colorado] and went to Littleton Public Brita Darling Schools K-12, graduating from Arapahoe High School. Brita Darling is a Senior Attorney with the Office of Today, my parents still live here, and so do my aunt, Legislative Legal Services for the Colorado General As- uncle, cousins, grandma, in-laws, and many friends old sembly. The Office of Legislative Legal Services and new. This is the place that made me the person I (OLLS) is a nonpartisan legislative staff agency charged am today and taught me my Colorado values of oppor- with drafting all bills and resolutions introduced in the tunity, independence, and responsibility. General Assembly. In addition to bill drafting, the OLLS acts as general counsel for the General Assem- I understand the concerns of our community because I bly, reviews all executive branch rulemaking, and annu- grew up here. I know the High Line Canal because I ally publishes the Colorado Revised Statutes. In her 11 played there as a kid. And I know our public schools sessions with the General Assembly, Brita has drafted because I was student there. But I’ve also worked with bills in her drafting team's subject-matter areas, includ- people from across the entire state, from the San Luis ing criminal justice, family law, human services, educa- Valley, the Western Slope, the Eastern Plains, and all tion, and public benefits. Her primary drafting areas are along the Front Range. That’s why I’ll be able to build Medicaid and education, K-12 and higher education, diverse coalitions with folks from all around the state in and Brita has drafted Colorado's K-12 school finance order to pass legislation that benefits our community. bill for the past 3 years. I also have a Master's of Divinity degree from Harvard. Email: [email protected] It's one of the most religiously diverse schools in the country with people of all faiths and none, which means I know how to bring diverse groups of people together around shared values—whatever the source of those Delaware values. I believe absolutely in the separation of church and state, and also in the impossibility of separating val- Senator David Sokola ues and public policy. Values are what motivate us. Val- Senator David P. Sokola was elected to the Delaware ues are why people care about political issues. We have State Senate in 1990. He has served as the Chair of the so much in common as Coloradans, that when we take Senate Education Committee for over 20 years. Since specific policy proposals and figure out what funda- 2015, Senator Sokola has also served as the Chair of the mental values are at stake, we can often find common Senate Bond Committee. Throughout his legislative ground to come together and move our state forward. tenure, he has been a strong advocate for improving 2017 – 2019 2 standards in school while closing the achievement gap, as well as the Joint Finance and Appropriations Com- for protecting the environment through passing tough mittees. As State Representative, Debra has champi- legislation that holds polluters accountable, and for oned efforts to improve quality of life for people with keeping a balanced state budget. Of his many Senate special needs by sponsoring and passing the People accomplishments, he is proud to have sponsored the First Act and the Employment First Act. Debra also led graduated driver's license bill, marriage equality, Dela- the efforts in Delaware to ensure continuation of the ware's Benefit Corporation law, and various education- Brownfields Remediation Act to clean up contaminated related bills. and underutilized properties. Debra has also continued to focus her efforts on improving education in Dela- Senator Sokola has served on a variety of Delaware ware by sponsoring and passing legislation to hire Boards, committees, commissions and task forces in- teachers earlier and expand early childhood education. cluding: the School District Consolidation Task Force, the Advance Educator Compensation and Careers Before being elected to the Delaware House of Repre- Committee, the Enrollment Preference Task Force, sentatives, Debra served for over five years on the Delaware Foundation for Science, Math & Technology Brandywine School Board, including two years as board Education, Truancy Task Force, HJR 4 Task Force to president. During her time on the board, the district re- examine best practice models of state assessments, and duced administrative costs while boosting the high the DEXSTA Federal Credit Union Board of Directors. school graduation rate and including greater numbers Senator Sokola also served on NCSL's Study Group on of students with special needs into regular education International Comparisons in Education, where he had classrooms. the opportunity to study with international and national education experts. He is currently a member of the Debra was a founding member of the Brandywine Spe- Southern Regional Education Board’s (SREB) Legisla- cial Needs PTA, the first group of its kind in Delaware, tive Advisory Council, a nonprofit and nonpartisan or- and has been PTA co-president at the Bush Early Edu- ganization based in Atlanta, Georgia, which advises cation Center. In 2010, she was honored by Parenting state education leaders on ways to improve education. magazine as Delaware’s Outstanding Mom Advocate for Education and represented the state at the inaugural As a graduate of the University of Delaware, Senator Mom Congress in Washington, D.C. Sokola began his career as a teacher in Delaware Public Debra is an environmental toxicologist with more than Schools. He is now retired after a 34-year career as an 25 years of experience, having worked in private indus- Assistant Scientist at the DuPont Experimental Station. try and as a consultant for the Delaware Department of He is married to Kathy Sokola and they have one Natural Resources and Environmental Control. She daughter, Megan. Senator Sokola has a passion for serves on the state’s Hazardous Substance Advisory physical fitness and has been a certified spinning in- Committee, formerly the Brownfields Advisory Com- structor for 19 years. mittee. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Delaware and a master of sci- Email: [email protected] ence degree in environmental toxicology from Duke University. Representative Debra Heffernan Debra lives in Edgewood Hills with her husband, Pat, Debra was elected State Representative for the 6th Dis- and their three children. trict in 2010. Debra serves as chair of the House Natu- ral Resources Committee and vice-chair of the House Email: [email protected] Health and Human Development Committee. Debra also serves on the Energy and Education Committees Alexa Scoglietti 2017 – 2019 3 Alexa currently serves as a legislative aide for the House Georgia Majority Caucus in Delaware. After graduating college in 2013 with a B.A. in Public Policy from the University Senate nomination pending of Delaware, Alexa pursued a Master of Public Admin- istration degree from the same institution. During her senior year of college and throughout the completion Representative Robert Dickey* of her graduate degree, Alexa served as a Legislative Email: [email protected] Fellow for the Delaware House Majority Caucus. Her duties included staffing House leadership committees and providing legislative research for members of the Sara Arroyo* House Majority Caucus. She accepted her current posi- Email: [email protected] tion as legislative aide for the caucus after graduating from her master’s program in 2015. Alexa lives in New- Idaho ark, Delaware and enjoys caring for her horse when she’s not working. Senator Chuck Windor Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Representative Wendy Horman Taylor Hawk Wendy served as a member of the Bonneville School Taylor Hawk serves as the Legislative Assistant to Sen- Board of Trustees from 2002 to 2013, including seven ator David Sokola in the Delaware State Senate. She years as Treasurer. Public schools account for almost provides legislative and constituent relations services to 50% of the Idaho state budget and Wendy invested sig- Senator Sokola and provides staff support to the Senate nificant effort into understanding the complex school Education Committee. Taylor earned her Master of funding system in order to be a responsible steward of Public Administration from the University of Delaware.
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