Staff

Aileen Parungao

Associate Director (SoCal)
CCTS
TAP

Aileen’s hometown is Burbank, California. She is a first-generation college graduate from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She received her BA in Cultural Anthropology and minor in Applied Psychology. Through her personal experiences and involvement with college access programs, she has developed a passion for creating access for diverse communities and working toward educational equity.

Althea Jardeleza

Assistant Director - OUSD
DCAC
EAOP

Reflecting upon her own experiences to and through college, it was the support of mentors and a strong social network that helped develop Althea's sense of belonging and allowed her to not only survive in college, but also thrive in it. Since then, Althea has dedicated her work towards educational equity and increasing college access for historically marginalized communities. She had the honor of serving as the DCAC College Adviser Fellow for Boost@BerkeleyHaas in 2015-2017. Althea continued her work in college access with the...

Angelica Garcia

Academic Programs Coordinator
DCAC
EAOP

Anna Bach

Project & Policy Analyst
Puente

Anna was born and raised in Oakland, CA. She received her BA in International Studies with an emphasis in Sociology from the University of California, San Diego. During her time at UC San Diego, she worked with organizations and centers which advocated for college access, retention and student success for first generation students, such as Upward Bound, OASIS Summer Bridge, and Student Promoted Access Center for Education and Service (SPACES). As a first generation student herself, Anna benefited...

Anna Lucina "Lucy" Parada

Program Manager
DCAC
EAOP

Born and raised in the relentless heat of Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, Lucy’s lifelong passion for learning brought her to the foggy hills of San Francisco and to the beginner level ESL Classes at City College of San Francisco. Always one to “dream big,” Lucy continued her education as a parent, re-entry student and obtained her BA from UC Berkeley in 2015, almost 30 years after taking her first ESL classes. A proud daughter of a single father, mother of two first generation UC Berkeley graduates, Lucy continues to devote herself to sharing her love for education through her work,...

Ariana Berumen

Program Coordinator
EBSCC

Bounphieng Khamnouane

Associate Director
EBSCC

Boun Khamnouane was born in Phongsali, Laos. His family fled communist persecution and migrated to the United States in 1986. In 2002, he received his Bachelor of Arts in South Southeast Asian Studies from the University California at Berkeley. While at Berkeley, he was a co-president of LASR (Laotian American Student Representatives) and founding member of the Southeast Asian Student Coalition (SASC). In fact, he is still actively involved with SASC, particularly with supporting and mentoring current SASC members.

Boun has worked for the East Bay Consortium/Cal-SOAP since he was...

Brian Brown

Assistant Director - Southern Alameda Region
DCAC
EAOP

Brittny Quiñonez

Program Coordinator
EBSCC

Bryan Martinez

Transfer Specialist
CCTS
TAP

Bryan is a first-generation college graduate. He attended community college at Los Angeles Mission College and transferred to UC Berkeley as an English major. He is currently a Transfer Specialist at UC Berkeley’s Community College Transfer Services and Transfer Alliance Project. He loves working with community college students and assisting them through the transfer process. He is in the process of completing his MFT counseling degree to help him merge the fields of higher education and mental health.