Catherine Kearney is the Dean of Teachers College of San Joaquin and the Director of Teacher Development in the San Joaquin County Office of Education. She directs the Project IMPACT District Intern Program, an alternative certification program that includes teacher preparation for multiple subject, single subject, and education specialist candidates. Prior to that, Kearney was director of an AmeriCorps program, classroom teacher (elementary, middle, and high school), professor, and doctoral fellow. Her research interests focus on the impact of cohort support on learning to teach, and teaching diverse students and youth in poverty. Kearney attended CSUS (B.A.), University of New Mexico (M.A.) and University of the Pacific (Ed. D.). Dr. Kearney currently serves as president of the California Teacher Corps.

Corinne Muelrath is the Regional Director of the North Coast Beginning Teacher Program (NCBTP). She administers the state-approved Induction, Alternative Certification, and Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program for an eight-county consortium. Muelrath has been an educator for 30 years, beginning her career as a classroom teacher, and has also served as a mentor teacher, teacher leader, school principal, and district superintendent in Sonoma County. She attended CSUS (B.A.), and Sonoma State University (M.A.). She is on California’s Board of Institutional Reviewers and is the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing Intern Regional Director (IRD) for Region One in Northern California. Muelrath currently serves as the interim secretary for the California Teacher Corps.

Tania Schalburg-Dykes is a Program Coordinator for the Kern County Superintendent of Schools (KCSOS), Beginning Teacher Consortium. She has worked with teacher development programs for the state of California and Kern County school districts since 1999. Schalburg-Dykes also holds the position as the Regional Director for the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing Region Two, Intern Teacher Programs. She also works actively to recruit prospective teachers in Kern County and facilitates their support toward a teacher preparation program and ultimately, to a teaching credential. Her works’ focus is to maintain rigorous pre-service training and a high quality support program for new teachers.

Ruth Beauchamp has been a leader in intern and induction programs for San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties since 1999. She currently serves as Regional Director for Region 3's Bay Area Alternative Certification Programs and faculty at San Jose State University. Beauchamp holds a master's degree in Organizational Leadership and obtained her administrative services credential from the University of San Francisco and a bachelor's degree from U.C. Davis. Her multiple subjects credential and supplementary authorizations were earned at San Diego State University after a brief career in food science and nutrition. Beauchamp has taught multiple subjects in grades K-12 including English/History CORE, Physical Education and Health. She became a board member of the California Teachers Corps in 2009 and is passionate about empowering teachers to meet the needs of their students. In 2010, Beauchamp established her own educational business, Oranda.

Belinda Karge is a full-time faculty member of California State University, Fullerton and director of the education specialist intern program. Karge is also the regional director for education specialist programs throughout California. A former intern herself, Karge has coordinated the CSU Fullerton Intern program since 1997, when prior to that, she worked with Interns at San Diego State University, and was a supervising faculty for interns at CSU Northridge. Currently, Karge serves as a member of the California Regional Leadership Network, supporting programs for special education interns. Additionally, she coordinates a US Department of Education Transition to Teaching program. She is the lead author on a statewide publication that highlighted the many alternative certification programs. Karge received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside. Prior to her work at the university, Karge taught in general education and special education programs. She holds a California Multiple Subject Life Credential and a California Learning Handicapped Life Credential.

Donna Glassman-Sommer is the Program Manager of New Teacher Development and Recruitment for Tulare County Office of Education. In addition to serving as Program Manager, she has leadership roles with two U.S. Department of Education grants, Transition to Teaching and a Teacher Quality Enhancement grant with a focus on Alternative Education.

Karol Gottfredson currently serves as Program Coordinator for the Spring Start/Intern Credential Program at the University of California, Irvine. In addition, she is actively involved with several district and county Intern Advisory Boards, state and national alternative pathway organizations, as well as several nonprofit boards with interests in education and community development collaboration. Gottfredson has been dedicated to the teaching profession and alternative pathways since she served in the National Teacher Corps in Schenectady, New York in the 1970’s. After receiving her teaching credential and Masters Degree in Education in New York, Gottfredson served as a classroom teacher in both New York and Arizona before becoming involved with teacher development and evaluation through the Amphitheater School District in Tucson, Arizona. Today, she remains dedicated to recruiting and training the highest quality teacher candidates through the high quality preparation programs.

Kamal Hamdan serves as the Director of the Transition to Teaching Program at California State University Dominguez Hills, as well as a lead lecturer.

Brenda Fikes (In Memorial)
Brenda Fikes provided leadership to interns in San Jose for more than a decade. As a respected member of the California State University, San Jose faculty and founding member of the California Teacher Corps, she is missed by all. Her unwavering dedication and commitment to children lives on in the legacy of the teachers she recruited and trained, and in the work of the colleagues that she inspired. The California Teacher Corps honors her many years of service for the betterment of California’s public schools.