Our Team
Cam H. Mahon
Cam has worked in healthcare for the past 20 years in the coaching, talent management and organizational development space. As an ICF certified coach with over 400 hours of coaching, Cam brings her signature strengths of deep listening, mindfulness and calm demeanor to create a safe space for individuals to feel empowered to affect change. She looks forward to cultivating relationships so that we can deepen the collective impact we all make in our community. Her favorite AAPI treat? Che, a traditional Vietnamese sweet beverage, dessert soup, or pudding.
President
Bernadette Diehl
Bernadette has had careers in human resources management and elementary education. She is currently a stay at home mom of three boys. Her family and passion for social justice, especially for the BIPOC community, is what drives her work for AAPI Placer County. Her favorite AAPI treat to eat is lumpia!
Board Chair
Christianna Heihn
Secretary
Christianna is a first generation AAPI adopted from a Korean orphanage with extensive experience working and volunteering throughout Asia. She holds a Master's degree from UC San Diego in Pacific and International Affairs and two teaching credentials. She is a Political Science Professor at Sierra College and works for the Government Relations Division at the California Faculty Association. Her favorite AAPI treats are mochi ice cream and mango sticky rice!
Cindy Tsang
Treasurer
Cindy has lived in Roseville for over 18 years and is heartened to see how the community has come together to embrace and support increasing diversity. Her favorite AAPI treat? Boba tea!
Donna Ong Trumbo
At-Large Advisor
Donna is the co-founder of ABC Equity Consultants, who aim to bring diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging to the region. She is the recipient of the Sacramento Bee's and Nehemiah Leadership Program's Top 25 AAPI Change Makers Award in 2023. Donna enjoys collaborating with organizations with like-minded missions to bring events and educational awareness to the community that will bring positive change and solidarity. Her favorite AAPI treat is sushi! She can’t live without it.
Millie Yan
At-Large Legal
Millie hails from hardy Chinese immigrant small business owner stock from the East Coast and, in rebellion of her parents’ desire for her to pursue medicine or engineering, studied American Studies and Women’s Studies (Double B.A., 2001) at the University of Maryland, College Park, outside of Washington, D.C., before floating to the West Coast for law school at UC College of the Law, San Francisco (J.D., 2010), and public policy and administration school at California State University, Sacramento (M.P.P.A., 2019). In between her educational endeavors, Millie’s peripatetic life has taken her to New York, New York; Baltimore, Maryland; Montpellier, France; Bangkok, Thailand; and Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, before she settled down in Placer County, where she raises two cheeky children with her partner and works as a state government professional.
Millie enjoys the range of cultural and edible offerings in the Placer County area, including patronizing local artists in the Placer Artists Tours and imbibing mandarin milkshakes at the Mountain Mandarin Festival, as well as in the greater Sacramento area, from symphonies at the Mondavi Center to hard rock/heavy metal sets at the Aftershock Festival, and aims to increase the incorporation and appreciation of the cultural treasures representing the breadth of the AAPI community in Placer County. Her favorite AAPI treat is anything eggy and custardy — bolo baos and Hong Kong egg tarts!
Maria Ollar
At-Large Board Director
Maria is a woman of faith, loving wife to her husband of over 39 years, devoted mother of two adult children, doting grandmother to three grandchildren, and retired nurse after a fulfilling career of almost 40 years. She teaches her family, by example, the importance and joy of serving their extended families in our communities with respect and kindness. Serving families, anyone who needs resources, education, or just a kind word or a smile. Her favorite AAPI treat is an avocado smoothie with basil seed.
Vanessa Wildie
At-Large Board Director
Vanessa is of Japanese American ancestry. She grew up in Sacramento lives in Roseville. She is a speech-language pathologist working in the Rocklin Unified School District. Her favorite AAPI treat? Japanese manju!
Jane Lê Skaife, Ph.D.
Sierra College Liaison
Dr. Jane Lê Skaife is a professor of ethnic studies and sociology at Sierra College, who continues to research, write, and organize events focusing on the Asian American experience. She is the co-founder of the Women Soaring Project, a Stanford EPIC Fellow, and a recipient of the statewide Hayward Award for Excellence in Education. As a former ESL student, Dr. Skaife is very passionate about equitable instruction and has been helping train other educators on how to incorporate equitable practices in their own courses. Her favorite AAPI treat is chè xôi nước (Vietnamese glutinous rice balls)
Donna Vivar
Donna Vivar (she/her/hers) is a dedicated higher education administrator who leads from an equity, inclusion, and belonging lens. She loves spending time with her family, eating good food, listening to podcasts, Saturday morning runs, and has recently discovered the joy of camping. Her favorite AAPI treat is boba!
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