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Our Glendale Community College Board of Trustees Candidates
 Dr. Armine Hacopian
Dr. Armine Hacopian has been in education for more than 38 years, serving students from prekindergarten to graduate levels, as a teacher, ESL Specialist, counselor, and as an administrator for the Los Angeles USD, Burbank USD, and Glendale USD. She is the owner and chief consultant of Guiding Leadership to Success Consulting Services. She provides training to organizations, schools, and leaders in the areas of cross cultural communication, conflict management, motivation, leadership skills, strategic planning, balancing life for women and coaching, career transitions, sexual harassment prevention, providing culturally responsive health care, and etc. She is a guest lecturer and a motivational speaker as well. She has earned two MA's, six credentials, many certificates, and a doctorate degree in educational administration/leadership. Dr. Hacopian is a trainer of trainers and the author of many training manuals and booklets. She has taught graduate schools at California State University, Northridge, California State University, Los Angeles, California Lutheran University, and serves on thesis and doctoral dissertation committees. She is a member of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Accreditation Committees, where she participates in WASC teams for college/university accreditation purposes. Dr. Hacopian is extremely involved in many community organizations as a leader. In 2008, she was appointed as a member of the board of directors for Royal Canyon Property Owners Association. She has been a board member for Burbank/Glendale League of Women Voters, past President of Glendale Literacy Coalition, New Horizon Family Center Advisory Council, and board member of Armenian International Women's Association (LA Affiliate), are to name a few. In 2001, she was elected to the Glendale Community College Board of Trustees for a four-year term, where she served as the President of the Board (4/03 to 4/04), being the first Armenian woman serving in this capacity. She was reelected to the same office in 2005, and served as president of the Board of Trustees for nineteen months due to her leadership skills at the unanimous request of the co-trustees at GCC. Also, she co-chaired a successful $98 million dollar bond measure for Glendale Community College. In addition, she has served on the Western Prelacy Board of Regents of California Armenian Schools, California State University/ Los Angeles-Community Advisory Board of Charter College of Administration and Counseling, and etc. She is a member of Armenian Relief Society as well. Currently, she is a consultant with LA County, Office of Affirmative Action Compliance. In addition, she works with various leaders (of profit and non-profit entities) to improve organizational management and development. Some of her expertise that is of particular interest to her, address employee job satisfaction issues, questionnaires and surveys, analysis of data, employee performance reviews, and improving communication among various parties through negotiations. Dr. Hacopian's mission in life is to help individuals and youth achieve their potential to the highest degree. Women's issues are of particular interest to her, and she puts every effort forth in helping women, specifically those interested in climbing the career ladder and who have political aspirations. She has been honored by various organizations throughout her career. In October of 2004, she was the recipient of the highly regarded "Educator of the Year" award, granted by The Armenian Educational Foundation, during which she received proclamations and resolutions in her honor from various legislators. Dr. Hacopian is passionate about Glendale Community College, and works tirelessly to increase public awareness of the College. She has been an excellent ambassador of the College and among many other issues, she continues to place a great deal of importance on improving student parking, transfer rates, increasing enrollment, promoting a diverse campus community, creating a better college facility at the Garfield campus, televising board meetings, becoming better neighbors to the local homeowners, and working with legislators to improve community college funding.  Anita Quinonez-Gabrielian
Anita Quinonez Gabrielian has served on the Glendale Community College Board of Trustees since 2002 and served as president of the board in the 2005-2006 fiscal year. Gabrielian earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and a Masters degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic University in Pomona. Anita is Executive Director of External Affairs for AT&T. In her twenty-eight year career in the telecommunications industry, she has held a variety of leadership positions in engineering, project management and government relations. She began her career with Pacific Telephone and Telegraph in 1980 as a Network Design Engineer. She has worked as an Operations Manager, a Network Planner, a Network Technology Instructor and a Project Manager for many major network modernization projects. In 1992, Ms. Gabrielian accepted the position of Director in the External Affairs department. In 1998, Ms. Gabrielian returned to Engineering and led the Data Engineering Team in Southern California responsible for the construction of the data backbone required for the deployment of new products such as DSL. In 1999, Ms. Gabrielian was promoted to Executive Director of External Affairs and served as chief of staff for the President of SBC in Los Angeles. Gabrielian has been an active member and director of many chambers of commerce and non-profit organizations. She has served on the boards of the Alhambra, Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena and Santa Clarita Valley Chambers of Commerce, Glendale College Foundation, YWCA, the California Council on Economic Education and the Los Angeles League of Women Voters Education Fund Board. She serves as Chairwoman of the Community Board of Glendale Memorial Hospital, immediate past chair of the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership, and is a long-time member of the Glendale Latino Association Board. Anita is proud to serve on the Advisory Board of Cal State LA's Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs, the Glendale Police Department's Community-Police Partnership Advisory Committee and is a graduate of the CORO Foundation's Leadership Southern California Program. Recognized for her leadership and community involvement, Anita was honored as Woman of the Year for the 43rd State Assembly District in 1997. She has also been honored with the Medal of Excellence Award from Pasadena's Women at Work and the ALAS Award for extraordinary commitment to education and community from Adelante Latinos. In 2005, she received the Corporate Woman of the Year Award from Senator Jack Scott, Assembly Majority Leader Dario Frommer and Assemblywoman Carol Liu at their Annual Women in Business Awards Ceremony. In 2008, Anita was recognized as Woman of the Year by the Glendale Chamber of Commerce. She resides in Glendale with her husband, Leo and their three wonderful daughters - Lauren, Jessica and Ana Bella.  Ann Ransford
Ann Ransford knows from personal experience the important role community colleges play in providing education. She credits attendance at Oakland City College with her success. She went on to earn a BS from San Jose State University and a MA from Pacific Oaks College. Success includes a 36-year career at Glendale Community College in a variety of positions from instructor to administrator. This has given her the opportunity to understand the unique challenges and issues that face the College. She will bring a fresh perspective with her long range planning experience and demonstrated visionary and enthusiastic leadership skills. Ann understands the importance of long-range planning and fiscal responsibility and has shared her skill, as a consultant, with local organizations and community college foundations across the state and nation. She demonstrated her planning and leadership skill as the day-to-day manager of the successful passage of Measure G, a $98 million bond measure that substantially solved the parking problems for the community and students alike. In addition, the bond measure has provided funding for renovation and new construction on the main campus and at the Garfield Center. While she was executive director of the College Foundation Ann had the opportunity to take vision to action by starting and growing an endowment to over $9.5 million. During Ann's tenure, the Foundation also provided more than $5 million to the district for programs, facilities and scholarships. As the director of the Foundation the College also benefited from Ann's ability to build community support by enlisting the participation of community and business leaders. She has been an active participant in the greater Glendale community as a member of the executive board of the YMCA, YWCA, Glendale Chamber of Commerce, Glendale Rotary, Temple Sinai, Glendale Rose Float Association, Glendale Association for the Retarded, Greater Glendale Committee on Aging, Career Encores and Life Services, Inc. She fulfilled a lifetime dream with a 6-year term, including chair, on the City of Glendale Parks, Recreation and Community Services Commission. Ann was honored in 2007 with the Citizen of the Year Award from the Glendale Association of Realtors. |
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