Margaret (Meg) Baldwinson has been with CASA since January 2002. She is responsible for the initial training curriculum and the planning, coordination and scheduling of training for our new volunteers. She also works closely with recruitment to assure that the training and recruitment messages work together. Meg has 20 years experience in the development and delivery of training and reference documentation supporting a target population of 11,000, and 15 years experience in developing new and re-engineering business processes. Her education and training includes Advanced Project Management at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Leadership Development and numerous Management, Instructional Design and Process Engineering courses.

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Gregg Chavaria has spent the last decade in the non-profit sector. Gregg joined the CASA team in November 2001 and currently serves as the Director of Development. His duties include securing grants from foundations, corporations, and government agencies. He is also responsible for assisting in developing fund raising strategies to increase CASA's individual and major donor base. His fundraising skills are complimented by his graduate work and field experience along with a passion to assist abused and neglected children in refugee camps in Croatia and Africa, and now the needy children in his home of Contra Costa County.

His educational background includes a BA from University of California at Berkeley and a Masters (M. Litt) degree from the University of Oxford.

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Charlie Mead has over 20 years experience in nonprofit management in the human services sector. He possesses a BA degree in Sociology from Cal State East Bay and a Masters in Nonprofit Administration from the University of San Francisco. Prior to becoming the Executive Director of CASA of Contra Costa, Charlie was the Executive Director of Marin Advocates for Children and the Marin CASA program. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Marin County Center for Volunteer and Nonprofit Leadership and the Center for Restorative Practice. Charlie has also served on the Justice Center collaborative that was a collective of nonprofit community based organizations working on improving access to advocacy and legal services for underserved populations in Marin.

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Kerry Mixie serves CASA in two capacities. She is the Volunteer Coordinator providing support services to our CASA volunteers and helps manage CASA's compliance with the regulations of California CASA and the State Judicial Council. She is also the Bookkeeper for CASA. Kerry first became involved with CASA as an office advocate in 1999. She has a BA in Sociology from the University of Washington and an MS in Rehabilitation Counseling from Seattle University.
 

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Bob Salgado serves as Case Management Support. He worked for Child Protective Services in Arizona from 2005 to 2011, specializing in child sexual abuse cases. He has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Arizona.

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Gina Turturici has a variety of experience in both the nonprofit and profit sectors. This experience has led her to her passion - advocating for children and families in need. She has been a CASA volunteer since 2004, in both an advocate and team leader capacity. In October 2011, she joined the CASA team as its Volunteer Recruitment Coordinator. In this role, Gina works closely with CASA's Executive Director as well as its board of directors to reinvigorate the agency's volunteer recruitment efforts. Gina has a bachelor's degree in Information and Communication Studies, from California State University, Chico.

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Gordana Zura has been with CASA since March 2000. She started as an office volunteer and advanced to her current position as Director of Communications. Gordana has a Bachelor of Arts in Education from the University of Split in Croatia. Her wide range of responsibilities includes assuring effective and efficient management of communication, administrative and operational systems. She maintains CASA's web site and is in charge of CASA promotional and outreach material. She also provides supervision to office advocates.

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