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 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.

Liane Louie-Badua
Director of Public Relations
415-338-3984

Liane came to California Campus Compact to serve as Interim Associate Director from July through December 2010. Since January 2011, she moved into the role of Director of Public Relations, primarily tasked to building relationships, overseeing membership, the Executive Board, and the annual Richard E. Cone Award. Prior to joining CACC, Liane was a nonprofit consultant, foundation program officer, clinical psychologist and litigation paralegal in San Francisco and Honolulu. She holds a Bachelors of Art in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, a Masters of Science in Psychology from Boston University, and a Masters of Art and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Pacific Graduate School of Psychology.  She has decades of experience in the nonprofit sector and mental health field.

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 Physiology and minoring in Chemistry, 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
Program 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.