Equal Employment Opportunity IACA Subcommittee
Welcome!
The purpose of the IACA-EEO Subcommittee is to expand outreach and opportunities, increase access, and ongoing supports, and enhance participation, retention and completion in registered apprenticeships for under-represented/ underutilized groups of California residents who have historically been failed by multiple systems and left out of California's prosperity.
Our mission is to ensure California's EEO Guidelines and International Best Practices are integrated into California's Apprenticeable careers.
If you are interested in learning more about Equal Employment Opportunity, we invite you to attend one of our meetings. You can click on the above icon for details.
Sabrina Singh Kansara, Chairperson
Senior Program Officer,
The James Irvine Foundation
Our goal is to develop, review, and share with IACA different strategies and implementable best practices/tools, systems, policies, procedures, and guidelines that promote opportunities and expand access, participation, retention, supports and success in careers through apprenticeship and to identify barriers that have historically limited opportunities, access and completion for under-represented/ underutilized groups.
We invite you to attend and participate in the subcommittee. All meetings are open to the public, and we provide an opportunity to anyone to contribute and share their ideas and vision for how we can make apprenticeship happen.
Committee Members
Meg Vasey
Policy Co-Chair
National Taskforce on Tradeswomen's Issues
Lisa Mednick Takami, Ed.D.,
Director
California Community College Technical Assistance Provider (CC TAP)
Shanell Brumfield
Registered Apprenticeship Programs Director
Early Care & Education Pathways to Success
Rashid D Herd, MBA, ODCP
Deputy Director of Human Resources
Port of San Diego
ADVISORS
Monica Zachary, DAS Advisor
Strategic Business Advisor
Apprenticeship and Workforce Innovation Unit
ADVISORS
Tony Pena, DAS Advisor
Strategic Business Consultant
Apprenticeship and Workforce Innovation Unit
Division of Apprenticeship Standards
Committee Charter, Reports and Meeting Notes
Industry Occupational Frameworks
Events/What’s News
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September 2025