Advisory Board

Chaun Powell, Ed.D., LCSW, PPS, CWA (she/her/hers/ella)

Senior Chief Student Services
Alameda County Office of Education
SJSU Lecturer

Maryam Adalat, MSW, PPSC (she/her)

Director, Student Services
East Side Union High School District

Namita Maunder, M.A., CCC/SLP (she/her)

Coordinator
Santa Clara County Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA), I,II,III,IV & VII
Santa Clara County Office of Education
Speech-Language Pathologist

Shannon Bui, M.A. (she/her)

Student Services Coordinator, Oak Grove School District
SJSU Alumni, SJSU Lecturer

Diana Phung, B.A. (she/her)

Graduate Student in Counseling Psychology, Santa Clara University
SJSU Alumna, Psychology Major & Child & Adolescent Development Minor
Former HDCC Project Assistant

Salma Issa, B.A. (she/her)

SJSU Alumna, Communicative Disorders & Sciences
Oak Grove High School Alumna

Adaurennaya "Ada" C. Onyewuenyi, Ph.D. (she/her)

Associate Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Faculty of African American Studies, The College of New Jersey
Leads the Identity Development across the African Diaspora (IDAD) Lab
Oak Grove High School Alumna

Mark J Hager, Ph.D. (he/him/his/el)

Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Menlo College
Consulting Psychologist
Curriculum Developer
Spectrum CTSA Community Advisory Board, Stanford University School of Medicine
Board Member, Bill Wilson Center

Elizabeth Carrasco, M.S. (she/her/ella)

Associate Marriage and Family Therapist
SJSU Alumna, M.S. Clinical Mental Health Counseling, B.A. Psychology, Minor in Spanish
Former HDCC Project Assistant