Three Higher Education Advocates Join Our Board of Directors
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Strong, diverse leadership has been instrumental to the direction and effectiveness of the work we do at the Campaign for College Opportunity. As business, college, civil rights, and community leaders, each member of our Board plays an active role in ensuring the Campaign does what is best for our students and our state. Join us in welcoming our three newest Board members whose work embodies the spirit of our mission. We invite you to learn more about our Board of Directors and our new 17-member Policy Research Advisory Board - experts in the fields of higher education and public policy who guide and inform our research agenda. 
Maria Anguiano
University of California Regent & Senior Vice President of Strategy, Arizona State University

Organizational Strategist and System Transformer

Anguiano has a long history in public higher education in California, where she has tackled some of the most challenging and complex financial issues facing the UC system. She served as Vice Chancellor of Planning and Budget at UC Riverside, managing $800 million and overseeing campus-wide strategic planning, financial planning and analysis, institutional research, and capital asset strategies. She has also worked at the UC Office of the President on financial and strategic system-wide initiatives to improve operational efficiency.

Anguiano is currently the Senior Vice President for strategy at Arizona State University (ASU), where she hopes to innovate new ways of targeting student populations that have not been well-served. She is responsible for university budget strategies, capital planning priorities, revenue development opportunities, and opportunities to grow ASU programs in California to help meet the serious capacity issues facing the state.

In 2017 Maria Anguiano was appointed by Governor Jerry Brown to serve on the Board of Regents for the University of California. 
Sonya Christian, PhD
President, Bakersfield College

Daring College Leader

Ever the advocate for student success across racial and socioeconomic groups, Dr. Christian has shepherded Bakersfield College through an exciting phase of transformation. She has been a pioneer in California as one of the first community colleges implementing Guided Pathways, and she continues her leadership role in taking Guided Pathways to scale across the state. In 2018, Bakersfield College received the Chancellor’s Student Success Award, and Christian has received awards from the state legislature and chambers of commerce for her accomplishments at Bakersfield College.
 
Christian serves as Vice Chair and Commissioner on the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges and was recently appointed by former Governor Brown to serve on the Community College Student Success Funding Formula Oversight Committee.
J. Luke Wood, PhD
Associate Vice President, Faculty Diversity & Inclusion, San Diego State University

Racial Equity Champion and Scholar

Dr. Wood is a social scientist and uses his research to lead racial equity-centered training at colleges and universities across the nation to transform the way in which they serve students of color in order to improve student success.

Wood currently serves as the Co-Director of the Community College Equity Assessment Lab, a national research and practice center. His research focuses on the success of men of color in education, and has been featured by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans, New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Fortune Magazine, Los Angeles Times, C-SPAN, and more.

In 2017, Wood launched Black Minds Matter , a nationally renowned public course designed to raise the consciousness about issues facing Black boys and men in education.

At SDSU, Wood focuses on building the inclusive excellence of campus faculty and enhancing the quality of student experience.