Governance

Highlighted here is commonly requested information and data that charter public schools share with parents through their Charter Petitions, School Accountability Report Cards, Local Education Agency Plans, Local Control Accountability Plans, Annual Audits, and other publicly available documents.

Governance

Highlighted here is commonly requested information and data that charter public schools share with parents through their Charter Petitions, School Accountability Report Cards, Local Education Agency Plans, Local Control Accountability Plans, Annual Audits, and other publicly available documents.

Charter Documents

Policies and Procedures

Please visit each school’s governance page for school specific documents and policies.

Handbooks

Transparency Resolution

Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles is a charter management organization that manages charter public schools governed by a nonprofit Board of Directors and overseen by the Los Angeles Unified School District. On January 12, 2016, the LAUSD board voted to approve a Board Resolution, “Keeping Parents Informed: Charter Transparency,” which was passed with the support of the Los Angeles charter community. The resolution highlighted commonly requested information and data that charter public schools share with parents through their Charter Petitions, School Accountability Report Cards, Local Education Agency Plans, Local Control Accountability Plans, Annual Audits, and other publicly available documents.

This commonly requested information is available from each CWC LA school site electronically or manually by parent request.  Per the Board Resolution, parents may request this information in English and any single primary language meeting the requirements of Sections 45400 through 45403 of the California Education Code.

CWC Hollywood

Jirusha Lopez
jlopez@cwchollywood.org

CWC Silver Lake TK-5

mtatsui@cwcsilverlake.org

CWC Silver Lake 6-8

mainoffice@cwcsilverlake.org

Our Board of Directors

Citizens of the World Los Angeles is a non-profit organization governed by a Board of Directors who are deeply engaged in the strategic governance and management of our schools. Our Board meets once a month, and meeting locations rotate among the three schools.

Mikelle Willis, Board Chair
Chief People Officer, Leading Educators
mwillis@cwclosangeles.org
In her current role as Chief People Officer for Leading Educators (LE), Mikelle Willis is responsible for driving the organization’s vision and strategy for the talent function as LE grows to a thriving organization of over 50 staff members. Specifically, Mikelle designs and executes LE’s talent acquisition strategy to ensure strong and diverse candidate pools, builds the capacity of leaders across the organization, and contributes to a staff culture rooted in equity and inclusion by providing opportunities for personal and professional development. Most recently, Mikelle served as Chief Strategy and Operating Officer at the Partnership for LA Schools. Previously, she spent over 10 years leading with KIPP in several capacities including middle school principal, Director of New Site Expansion, and Senior Director of Principal Development. She started her career in education as a Teach for America corps member in the Los Angeles region. Mikelle earned her BS in Business Administration from California State University, Long Beach; her MA in Education from National Louis University; and her MBA from Pepperdine University.

Ann Le, Board Treasurer
VP Finance and Operations, Brighthive
ale@cwclosangeles.org

Ann Le is an entrepreneur and investor, working on building strong, sustainable, anti-racist systems and organizations. She’s leaning into how we can leverage new technologies, finance and community to combat racial and economic injustice as an ally. As part of this work she frequently participates in work and conversations around circular economies, solidarity movements, and innovative, non-extractive financing mechanisms. Ann is a recovering investment banker, having spent a decade at Banc of America Securities on the fixed income trading floor. After her MBA, she went to work at Universal Pictures, before leaving to focus on finance, operations and strategy for start-ups, non-profits and media companies. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Economics and has an MBA from the Anderson School of Business, UCLA. She has two kids at CWC Silver Lake who describe her as a mom who writes a lot of emails and “not all the time boring.”

Jessica Smith
Vice President, Employee Relations & Engagement, Alliance-College Ready Public Schools
jsmith@cwclosangeles.org
Jessica Smith is a culture and change leader who currently serves as Vice President, Employee Relations & Engagement for Alliance-College Ready Public Schools. In her role, Jessica leads Alliance’s employee relations and engagement team and designs and drives the organization’s diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism (DEI/A) strategy to ensure DEI/A is embedded in the organization’s DNA, expand the capacity of leaders to implement equity work, and interrupt and dismantle institutional practices and policies that are exclusionary. Previously, Jessica supported employee relations at Atlanta Public Schools and earlier on in her career represented school districts in employment law matters.  Jessica holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and English from the University of Miami and a Juris Doctor from Emory University.

Phuong Vuong
Talent Manager, Boston Consulting Group
pvuong@cwclosangeles.org
Phuong Vuong currently serves as Talent Manager at Boston Consulting Group where she owns and drives overall objectives of the business and people strategy for the Los Angeles Consulting team.  Her work focuses on the Public Sector and Health Care – optimizing team design, organizational culture, learning & development and DEI.  Previously, Phuong was Senior Director at The Broad Center, a national leadership development program for school system leaders focused on educational equity.  She holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a BS in Business from The University of Illinois.  Phuong was born in a refugee camp, immigrated to the US as a child and attended LAUSD. In her free time, she enjoys cheering on the Dodgers and Lakers with her husband and three children.

Nicole Boone
VP of Capital Markets, Community Lending
nboone@cwclosangeles.org
Nicole Boone has over 14 years of experience in the banking, real estate and community development finance industry. At Lendistry, she is responsible for leading the capital strategy across all government program funding and other community capital products. Nicole previously served as Executive Director, Senior Commercial Banker within Community Development Banking at JP Morgan Chase Bank, specializing in New Markets Tax Credit equity. In her time there, she deployed over $400 million in New Markets Tax Credit financing across nearly 40 deals. She also created and led the first-ever Community Development Banking Racial Equity Special Purpose Credit Program (SPCP) targeting Black Americans. SPCP resulted in the deployment of an additional $200 million of tax credit financing, across fifteen transactions supporting black businesses and non-profits nationally. A graduate cum laude of Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, Ms. Boone also serves on the Board of Directors at Excellent Education Development (ExED), the The Way Berkeley, and is on the Executive Leadership Team at The Way Los Angeles.

Dana Gomez-Gayne, Board Secretary
Vice President, Associate General Counsel, Cityview
dgomez-gayne@cwclosangeles.org
Dana Gomez-Gayne is Vice President, Associate General Counsel at Cityview, a real estate investment management firm. She was previously an Associate at the law firms of O’Melveny & Myers LLP and Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP. Dana also has a background in fundraising development and worked at Teach For America raising philanthropic funds from regional and national corporations and foundations. She is a founding parent of CWC East Valley and the founding Board Chair of Vox Collegiate of Los Angeles. Dana is a graduate of Pomona College and Pepperdine University School of Law.

Sarah Angel
Senior Vice President, Bryson Gillete
sangel@cwclosangeles.org
Sarah Angel is a long-time advocate for educational equity and reform. She currently serves as the Senior Vice President at a Black-owned, intentionally diverse, strategic communications firm, specializing in political and public affairs campaigns. Most recently, Sarah served as the Chief of Staff to Los Angeles Unified School Board Member Nick Melvoin, where she managed a team of policy, community engagement, and communications professionals serving the over 700,000 public school students and their families in greater Los Angeles. Prior to LAUSD, Sarah led the California Charter Schools Association’s Los Angeles team developing and executing strategic consulting for charter schools and collective action campaigns related to new schools, renewals, and facilities issues. She started her career at the intersection of law and policy, having served as a staff consultant for the California State Assembly Budget Committee, focused on health and human services, before joining O’Melveny & Myers as an attorney. Sarah is a proud alumna of California public schools, including earning her BA in Political Science from UCLA and her JD from UC Berkeley School of Law. Sarah and her husband, Dan Nieman, are proud parents of three CWC LA students.

Mariana Marrone
Senior Director, Strategy & Research at GoGuardian
maguilar@cwclosangeles.org
Mariana Aguilar is the Senior Director of Education at GoGuardian, an education technology company helping create more effective and safer learning environments. In her role, she leads the Education division, a function dedicated to integrating education principles, learning science, and efficacy research, into the product development process. Mariana began her career in education as a Teach for America corps member teaching 3rd grade in South LA, and has over 15 years of experience in the education and digital learning space. She holds degrees in psychology and digital studies from the University of Southern California and a master’s in urban education from Loyola Marymount University.

Archana Patel
Vice President of Parent Programming, Jeremiah Program
apatel@cwclosangeles.org

Archana Patel bio coming soon! 

Hayley Roberts
Director of Teaching and Learning, The John Thomas Dye School
hroberts@cwclosangeles.org
Hayley Roberts is an experienced Curriculum Developer and Assistant Principal with a demonstrated history of working in Independent, International and Charter Schools with linguistically, culturally and socioeconomically diverse communities. She was born and educated in South Wales, UK. She studied at Cardiff Metropolitan University gaining BA Honors in Education and Post Graduate Degree in Professional Studies in Education. She has worked as an Administrator and Teacher for 22 years in schools in the United Kingdom and International Schools in Chicago, Houston and New York. More recently, she has served as an Assistant Principal at Citizens of the World – Mar Vista, and is currently a Director of Teaching and Learning at an independent school  in Los Angeles. Hayley has had experience in strategic planning, grant writing, leading curriculum development, and has served on multiple WASC/CAIS accreditation teams.

And a special thanks to our former board members: 
Ina Barish
Kristen Bell
Jessica Castillo
Derrick Chau
Carl Christopher
Rick Esquivel
Adam Fletcher
Sonja Howe
Brian C. Johnson
Samantha Johnston
Saman Bravo Karimi
Yvette King-Berg
Josh McLaughlin
Heather McManus
James Rosenblatt
Stacey Rossley Staples
Gene Straub
Craig Tessler

Board of Director's Meeting Documents

School

Location

Date

CWC East Valley

12020 Burbank Blvd, Valley Village, CA 91607

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

CWC Mar Vista

11500 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

CWC Silver Lake Middle School

152 N Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90004

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

CWC West Valley

7911 Winnetka Ave., Winnetka, CA 91306

Wednesday, December 6, 2023

CWC Hollywood

1316 N Bronson Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

CWC Silver Lake Elementary

110 N Coronado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

CWC Mar Vista

11500 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90064

Wednesday, May 15, 2024

CWC East Valley

12020 Burbank Blvd, Valley Village, CA 91607

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Archived Board Meetings