Sandra I. Aldana, 47, of Newbury Park, has been reappointed to the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities, where she has served since 2015. Aldana has been a self-employed educational consultant since 2013. She was a data collector at Westat from 2016 to 2018 and a technical assistant at JFA Avionics from 2010 to 2013. She was a graduate research assistant at the University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Education from 2005 to 2012, a graduate intern at the University of California Cooperative Extension Agricultural Water Quality Research and Education Program from 2006 to 2009 and a consultant and facilitator at the ALS Association’s Kern County Patient and Caregiver Support Group from 2005 to 2006. Aldana was an instructor of advanced Spanish grammar and beginning literature for the University of Kansas Department of Spanish and Portuguese and a development coordinator at the American Stroke Foundation in 2004. She was a graduate teaching and research assistant at the University of Kansas Department of Applied Behavioral Science from 2003 to 2004, a service coordinator at the North Los Angeles County Regional Center from 2001 to 2003 and a qualified mental retardation professional at the United Cerebral Palsy Chatsworth Campus from 2000 to 2001. Aldana was a pregnancy prevention program coordinator at the Vista Community Clinic from 1999 to 2000, a senior health educator for pregnancy prevention at the Northridge Hospital Medical Center from 1998 to 1999 and a staff intern at the World Health Organization in 1997. She was a women’s health graduate teaching assistant for the Department of Health Science at California State University, Northridge from 1995 to 1996, an intern at the Ventura County Department of Public Health from 1996 to 1997 and an AIDS educator for AIDS Care Inc. from 1990 to 1998. Aldana is a member of the American Educational Research Association, International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, California Association for Bilingual Education, American Association of University Women and the American Public Health Association. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in education from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Master of Public Health degree in health education from California State University, Northridge. This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $100 per diem. Aldana is a Democrat.
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