Elaine Ikeda
Executive Director
415-338-3983

Elaine has been the Executive Director of California Campus Compact since 2000. Prior to joining California Campus Compact, Elaine served as the Director of the Higher Education National Service-Learning Clearinghouse Project. For the last 15 years, Elaine has contributed to the production of research knowledge related to service-learning and has co-authored several journal articles and book chapters on service-learning and student development, including a chapter in the forthcoming Looking In/Reaching Out: A Reflective Guide for Community Service-Learning Professionals (B. Jacoby and P. Mutascio, Eds.) and a chapter in Service-Learning and the First-Year Experience (E. Zlotkowski, Ed.). Elaine also has organized numerous conferences, institutes and forums addressing service-learning and civic engagement in education, including the Symposium on Civic Engagement and Graduate Education and The Artful Partnership: Advancement and Community Service Learning. From 2005 to 2007, she directed the largest community partner research study in the nation, resulting in the research report Community Voices: A California Campus Compact Study on Partnerships. Elaine holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Health Science and a Master of Public Health degree from California State University, Long Beach and a Ph.D. in Higher Education & Organizational Change from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Piper McGinley
Associate Director
415-405-7577

Piper has more than a decade of experience in the development, implementation and management of community engagement initiatives. Piper co-designed the California Campus Compact-Carnegie Foundation Faculty Fellows: Service-Learning for Political Engagement Program (2007-2009) and California Campus Compact’s Youth to College Initiative (2006-2009). In addition to her role at California Campus Compact, Piper serves as the Interim Associate Director for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) and is the Deputy Director for Faculty for the Engaged Campus, a national three-year initiative of CCPH that seeks to legitimize and support community-engaged career paths in the academy by developing innovative competency-based models of faculty development, facilitating peer review and dissemination of products of community-engaged scholarship and supporting community-engaged faculty through the promotion and tenure process. Piper also has been responsible for the design, content and planning of CCPH’s introductory and advanced service-learning institutes and annual conference. Piper holds Bachelor of Arts degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master of Arts degree in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from The American University.

Kathy Dalle-Molle
Director of Communications and Special Projects
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Kathy brings 20 years of marketing, writing, fund development and project management experience to California Campus Compact. She has collaborated on projects as diverse as fund-development campaigns, the creation of a searchable online photography archive documenting the rise of Silicon Valley, and public television documentaries on topics ranging from the mining industry to exemplary corporate leaders. Kathy has edited more than 50 non-fiction books, planned and implemented university service-learning projects and written articles for numerous magazines and newspapers, including Leader to Leader, Fast Company and the San Francisco Chronicle. Kathy's consulting clients and employers have included Stanford University, Santa Clara University, San Francisco State University, Kaiser Permanente, Tom Peters, Barry Posner and Jim Kouzes, Jossey-Bass, Random House and Against All Odds Productions. Kathy is a graduate of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

Cathy Avila-Linn
Project Director
415-338-3342

Cathy is an educator, coach, facilitator and trainer in the areas of leadership development, strategic planning and organizational effectiveness. For 15 years, Cathy served in various professional capacities across a broad range of student affairs areas, including university housing, student activities, leadership development, service-learning and educational equity programs. Cathy is the director of California Campus Compact’s Bridge-Building Leadership Initiative, which is designed to cultivate diverse leaders in the field of service-learning. A native Californian, Cathy holds an undergraduate degree in psychology from California State University, Chico and a Master of Education degree in Educational Leadership and Policy with an emphasis in College Student Personnel from Loyola University Chicago.

Sheena Ansarinia
Students in Service Coordinator
415-405-7587

Sheena joined California Campus Compact in November 2008 and is an undergraduate student at San Francisco State University, majoring in Cell and Molecular Biology with the dream of attending medical school. Along with being a full-time student, she also is a dance performer and an elementary/middle school volleyball coach.

Rita Wilke
Office Coordinator
415-338-3342

Rita joined California Campus Compact in January 2009 after returning from a year abroad, studying in Germany. She is a 2010 graduate of San Francisco State University, where she earned both a Bachelor of Arts degree in German and a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology with an emphasis in Ecology. While attending San Francisco State, Rita also was a Young Ambassador to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Rita brings 10 years of wide-ranging administrative and customer service experience to her role at California Campus Compact.