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National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation
P.O. Box 369, Cochranville, PA 19330
Phone: 610-593-8038 Fax: 610-593-7283
Email: NAPE@napequity.org
Funded by the National Science
Foundation HRD-0734056

National Office Staff

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Mimi Lufkin

Chief Executive Officer
STEM Equity Pipeline Project Director
mimilufkin@napequity.org

Mimi Lufkin has over 26 years of experience as an educator and as an administrator of local and state level projects in California and Pennsylvania. In California Mimi’s career began in 1979 as high school agricultural education teacher. Over the next fifteen years she was a teacher educator, an executive director of a women’s microenterprise development agency and the director of development for a community college.

Mimi graduated from U.C. Davis with a BS in Animal Science and then attained a MS in Agricultural Sciences from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and a MA in Educational Administration from St. Mary’s College.

In 1994, Mimi moved to Pennsylvania and became the Executive Director of the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity, a consortium of state and local education and workforce agencies providing national leadership for equity in education and workforce development. In this capacity she reviews and analyzes federal legislation, conducts professional development activities and provides technical assistance to state and local educational agencies focused on best practices for serving special population students.

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Claudia Morrell

Chief Operating Officer
cmorrell@napequity.org

Claudia Morrell is the Chief Operating Officer of the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity Education Foundation. Prior to her assuming the position, she was founder and CEO for the Multinational Development of Women in Technology (MDWIT), an organization founded in 2007 and that received a Governor's Citation in 2008. Ms. Morrell is formerly the executive director of the Center for Women and Technology where she worked for seven years and helped to build the organization from start-up to become an internationally recognized organization at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is a skilled leader with record of accomplishment in creating and directing innovative organizations and programs that have a demonstrated significant impact in improving student outcomes. Her efforts to advance women and girls in nontraditional fields through innovative programs has been highly successful and as a result she and her work have received numerous awards. Ms. Morrell has expertise in initiating and facilitating partnerships between private and public sectors and has been highly successful at corporate, foundation and government-based fundraising. She also has significant experience in the education arena. Ms. Morrell has a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a Master's of Science degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Master of Arts degree from Loyola College in Maryland.

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Joyce Ayers

Manager of Finance and Administration
jayers@napequity.org

Joyce has over 20 years experience in the non-profit field. She worked for Chemung Schuyler Steuben (CSS) Workforce Development in Corning, NY where she did a variety of jobs including managing youth programs, monitoring awardees, managing the office and eventually working in the finance office. Following 15 years at CSS, Joyce became the Finance Manager at the Economic Opportunity Program (EOP) (a community action program) in Elmira, NY. After moving from NY, she worked in the accounting offices of various manufacturing businesses in Nashville, TN, Raleigh, NC and Morgantown, PA. She has an AS in Human Services from Corning Community College, Corning, NY. At NAPE she handles all phases of accounting, updates and tracks the national database, manages NAPE State and Affiliate membership records and coordinates registration, logistics and resource materials for all NAPE sponsored events across the country.

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Greg Nagy

Virtual Learning Community Manager
nagy.8@osu.edu

Greg Nagy is a Web Communications Systems Engineer at the Center on Education and Training for Employment (CETE) at The Ohio State University. He has worked in the non-profit field for almost 10 years. He previously was the Director of Technology for the National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education. Mr. Nagy currently works for a variety of grant funded, educational projects at the center. Besides the STEM Equity Pipeline Project, Greg also works on the KNOTtT Project, a consortium of colleges/universities and school districts in Kansas, Nevada, Ohio, and Texas that is transitioning 545 participants to teaching, while addressing the national issue of teacher quality. Mr. Nagy performs a range of duties for these projects including: developing and maintaining the project websites, providing training and technical support via Live Meeting, coordinating the production of courses into Moodle utilizing software, producing training videos, and providing technical support to the project, his peers, and its members.

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Nancy Tuvesson

Research Associate

Nancy Tuvesson has worked for NAPE since 2002, first as administrative assistant and currently as research associate. She is responsible for producing the biweekly NAPE Update and monthly STEM Equity Pipeline Press. She also assists with special projects, such as maintaining the NAPE Nontraditional Crosswalk, assisting with writing reports and grants, and staffing the annual Professional Development Institute. Nancy has more than 10 years' experience as a freelance copyeditor of scientific, medical, and engineering publications. She earned her B.S. in finance from Lehigh University and her M.B.A. from Drexel University.

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