National Office Staff

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.

Joyce Ayers
Manager of Finance and Administration
jayers@napequity.org

Holly Blue
Manager of Member Services
hblue@napequity.org

Greg Nagy
Virtual Learning Community Manager
nagy.8@osu.edu