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Meet NACCTEP's
Executive Board
Dr. Lennon Audrain -
President
R. Lennon Audrain has a PhD in educational policy and evaluation from Arizona State University. He is a former Latin and Spanish teacher, having taught in both Arizona and Massachusetts. Lennon is a community college teacher education program graduate; he earned his Associate of Arts in Elementary Education degree in January 2017 from Rio Salado College at age 17 - five months before he graduated from high school. He earned his undergraduate degree in Latin and his first Master's degree at age 19 from Arizona State University. Lennon earned his second Master's degree in technology, innovation, and education from Harvard University Graduate School of Education at age 21. He is the former 2017-18 National Student President of Educators Rising, a division of Phi Delta Kappa International - an organization composed of 44,000 high school and collegiate students interested in pursuing careers in the education profession. His personal and professional experiences drive his research interests in high-school based grow-your-own teacher programs, community college teacher education, and incorporating technology and high-quality clinical experiences in both.
Dr. Cecelia Monto - Vice President
Dr. Cecelia Monto serves as Dean of Education, Languages and Social Sciences at Chemeketa Community College. She has been instrumental in building a community college/ university pathway into teacher education in the State of Oregon, which was approved in June, 2020. Monto's leadership experience in strategic program development, policy formation, articulation work, curriculum development, assessment and accreditation, and budget/grant development as well as her teaching in Education, Humanities, and Student Success courses ground her administration work in a faculty perspective. Monto has demonstrated ongoing commitment to equity work in her college and in her state. She sits on the Governor's committee for Educator Equity and is actively working to diversify the teaching workforce by initiating a pathway into teacher education for bilingual/ bicultural students at Chemeketa. She also received a grant as the first college in the state to bring the Oregon Seal of Biliteracy opportunity to Heritage Spanish speakers at Chemeketa, which gives students a valuable state recognized credential that honors their linguistic assets. Monto see the community college option as a critical opportunity to create equitable access to education. She presents regularly at conferences and has authored articles on the topics of increasing diversity and improving access in the community college venue.
Dr. Jennifer Gresko - Treasurer
Jennifer Gresko brings more than 25 years of experience in education and education leadership, beginning as a second- and third-grade teacher in Phoenix. Always eager to learn, she says, she began mentoring other teachers on campus in the use of technology in education, and eventually took a position at the district level working with teachers and technology.
This experience opened up a new path at the college level, which led to her current position as Faculty Chair of Educator Preparation Programs at Rio Salado College. The Educator Preparation Programs at Rio Salado College are designed for working adults who want to enter the teaching profession or continue their professional development in preK-12 education. She previously held positions as a school district technology trainer K – 3, and as a program specialist in curriculum and assessment. Jennifer holds a BS in Elementary Education from Grand Canyon University, and M.Ed in Elementary Education – Specialization in Educational Media and Computing and an Ed.D in Leadership and Innovation from Arizona State University.
Dr. Linda Gronberg-Quinn - Past President
Dr. Linda Gronberg-Quinn completed her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership for Changing Populations through Notre Dame University of Maryland and serves as the Director of Teacher Education at the Community College of Baltimore County where she has worked for 19 years. Linda has served on the NACCTEP Executive Board for the past seven years, starting as Member-at-Large through Secretary and Vice President to her current second year as President. As a first-generation college student who grew up in the area where she currently teaches, Linda feels she can reach those students on a more personal level.
Dr. Jose Fierro - Presidential Representative
Native of Madison, Wisconsin, Dr. Jose Fierro grew up in Bogota, Colombia. He earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the University of Applied Sciences in Bogotá, Colombia, and a Master of Science degree in leadership and management of educational programs from Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Dr. Fierro also holds a doctorate degree in higher education leadership from Northcentral University in Prescott, Arizona.
Dr. Fierro joined Cerritos College as the President/Superintendent in 2015. Prior to that, he served as the vice president of academic affairs and chief academic officer at Laramie County Community College in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Under Dr. Fierro’s leadership, the College launched Cerritos Complete, the College’s official California College Promise program. Cerritos Complete is one of 10 community college programs in the nation selected as a finalist for the 2018 Bellwether Award.
Dr. Troy Hutchings - Partnership & Collaborations Representative
Troy Hutchings researches, writes, and speaks in the areas of professional ethics, educator misconduct, and frameworks necessary for an ethical and legal teaching practice. He presents to various state and national policy and practitioner groups across the United States and Canada. Hutchings also provides expert witness testimony in judicial hearings; collaborates on policy initiatives with state, federal and provincial agencies; and has been the subject matter expert on a variety of national projects dealing with educator ethics including the Model Code of Ethics for Educators.
Dr. Hutchings is the Senior Policy Advisor for the National Association for the State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC). He served as a high school teacher, coach and administrator in public and private schooling environments for 16 years, and has a record of full-time teaching, research, and administrative responsibilities at the university level spanning 15 additional years. Hutchings also spent four years conducting research, creating resources and developing thought-leadership capacity in educator ethics for a non-profit educational research and assessment organization.
4-Year University Representative
Member-at-Large
Angie Stratton - Member-at-Large
Angie Stratton has proudly served Arizona’s students and teachers for over 30 years. After beginning her teaching career in the Tempe School District, Angie taught 2nd and 3rd grades at Kyrene de la Sierra Elementary School. She rounded out her time at Sierra as a reading specialist and instructional coach before moving on to teaching teachers with Rio Salado College’s Educator Preparation Program.
For the past thirteen years, Angie has managed and supervised the post-baccalaureate early childhood certification program at Rio Salado College. With a core focus on instructional best practices, Angie has leveraged the knowledge and skills she has acquired throughout her career to manage, update, and create course curriculum, train, supervise and evaluate adjunct faculty and program supervisors, as well as collaborate on the development of program policies and procedures. She believes it is imperative that students, of all ages, understand how the knowledge and skills they gain from what they are learning today will influence their everyday lives in the future. As the educational landscape shifts and changes, Angie is dedicated to providing new and experienced teachers with the tools and strategies they need to teach, mentor, and inspire future generations.
Shannon Delgado - Member-at-Large
Shannon Delgado has been an Associate Professor of Education at the College of DuPage, in Glen Ellyn Illinois for over eight years. She earned a Master’s degree in School Improvement Leadership from Olivet Nazarene University and Master’s degree in Instructional Technology from Northern Illinois University.
Shannon has served students of various ages in the K-12 and college setting for 17 years. She was a first-generation college student who also began her education at the community college level. She feels her lived experiences has helped her to relate to the students she now serves. Shannon recognizes the need to diversify the teaching population to create culturally responsive teachers ready to support the needs of the students they serve.
Carla Rhodes - Member-at-Large
In 2021, Carla was hired as a tenure track faculty at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in Ohio. Carla facilitates the placement of student teachers and teaches the student teaching course. In 2016, Carla was the recipient of the Leaders for Tomorrow’s Children: Preparing Leadership Personnel in Early Childhood Education Fellowship, prompting her to leave her job of almost 15 years to focus on completion of her PhD. During this time, she also taught as an adjunct mostly remote courses at two and four-year colleges. She is a PhD candidate in Educational Studies, Developmental and Learning Sciences, hoping to complete her dissertation by this summer. Carla is also an Ohio approved trainer providing SUTQ professional development training opportunities for early childhood professionals. She has developed several Ohio-approved trainings, mostly related to language development.
Carla has over 23 years of experience as a classroom preschool teacher and director, most of these years were in a lab preschool providing hands-on experience opportunities for early childhood education (ECE) students. Through Carla’s leadership, the preschool program earned the highest rating from Ohio’s quality rating initiative, Step Up to Quality (SUTQ), and offset much of the operating expenses funded by the college through grants, state and national opportunities, and strategic budgetary initiatives. During this time, Carla served on the board of a multi-county Head Start agency for several years.
Tricia McKay - Member-at-Large
Tricia McKay is the Program Director for the Child Development and Early Education Program at Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Family Community Services from Michigan State University and a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Studies with a concentration in Teaching Adults from Walden University. Tricia has worked in the field of early childhood education for 30 years and in higher education for the past six years. She began her career teaching in a classroom with two-year-olds, and today she continues to enjoy teaching infant and toddler college courses. Tricia’s work is built on the foundation of building strong relationships, as well as advancing diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Through collaboration and connection, Tricia supports students in achieving their educational goals, and partners with faculty to create meaningful, high quality learning opportunities for all students.
Laurette Scott - Member-at-Large
Sariah Chabarria - Student Representative
Sariah Chabarria was born and raised in Mesa, Arizona. Growing up my mother taught me the importance of treating your community as a family. She worked as an aide at my elementary school so during the summers we would spend time running around classrooms getting things done for teachers. In my family’s free time we would attend countless car shows where we would reconnect with and make new friends. I am now an elementary education major at Mesa Community College who still goes with my mother to my old school and attends car shows with my family. The main difference now is that I have been granted so many opportunities on my educational journey to shed light on my people. What I know to be true is that if we take care of the community the community will take care of us.
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