Rami Christophi currently works as the Title I Director of the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE). In 2016 he envisioned a family engagement program that is: 1. Self-Sustained 2. Builds capacity for family engagement 3. Responds to the parents' learning needs 4. Cost effective. After an extensive needs assessment, he proposed the Title I Parent Education and Consultation Program. The program has experienced unprecedented success for LACOEs’ model for parental engagement. In less than a year more than 800 families of the highest transient and most at-risk youth in Los Angeles County have participated in workshops, academies, conferences and talks. His vision and audacity shifted the parent involvement activities from a mandate to be complied with, to an authentic and supportive tool that fosters increased academic achievement. Rami has been a teacher, a principal, an administrator and a director servicing for over ten years the most at-risk student and family populations of Los Angeles County. He has applied the spirit of the Title I law to bring about culture shifts in alternative educational settings by faithfully adhering to data to drive the decision-making process.

Jael Ovalle is the Program Manager for Parent Education for the Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE). She participated in the design and implementation of the Title I Parent Education and Consultation Program; an overhaul of LACOEs’ models for parental engagement. The program is the first and only agency-lead program in the nation to reach out to the families of incarcerated youth, homeless students and foster children. Jael has been at the center of major reform on parent engagement in Los Angeles. She has worked with community partners, bargaining units, district officials, families and students to support the passage of the historic resolution “Parents As Equal Partners” in 2010, which sparked a substantial conversation on the role of parents in public education. She collaborated in the creation of the Parents’ Bill of Rights, to guide the parent involvement work of school districts, charter schools and community-based organizations that advocate for parental engagement in education in Los Angeles. Jael has participated in extensive training on the Dr. Joyce Epstein’s Typology for Parental Engagement, conducted by Dr. Epstein’s herself, and possess broad knowledge of the Parent Action Teams model by the Center on School, Family, and Community Partnerships at Johns Hopkins University and the research that guides school district's practices for parental engagement in the nation. Jael has Master’s Degree in Public Administration Program, with a specialization in Leadership. She is an expert in policy writing, strategic planning, budget alignment, and understands profoundly the political environment in which the work of educating students and providing families with authentic opportunities for learning must be carried out.

Felipe Vasquez currently provides leadership and oversight to the Division of Student Programs, Data and Assessment of the Los Angeles County Office of Education. Under his guidance, the Division has implemented success measures for academic performance and pupil and family engagement in education. He has designed and developed standard operating procedures related to data, assessment and compliance in the areas of Local Control Accountability Plan, Title I, Federal Program Monitoring, and Office of Civil Rights Reporting; alignment of the LEA Plan to LCAP, Assessments, and WASC accreditation process. Under his leadership, the Los Angeles County Office of Education has complied with complex state and federal mandates, successfully obtained accreditation and reporting of accountability measures, and secured funding for the Division of Student Programs of the Los Angeles County of Education. He has created, developed and monitored the eight state priorities of the Local Control Accountability Plan and guided the Division’s activities in preparation for Federal Program Monitoring visits. He also worked to provide comprehensive reporting to the Office of Civil Rights as related to accountability, performance and service reviews. Felipe has devoted his professional life to serving at-risk populations in Los Angeles County as a teacher, principal, administrator and director.