Sunne mcpeak biography
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Board and Staff
CEO
Transit Wireless
Retired distrikt President Frontier Communications
Melinda White is a C-suite leader who thrives on challenges-she embraces responsibility, accountability and innovation in her stewardship of change. Ms. vit is a former distrikt President accountable for $3B P&L, across a competitive, multi-State landscape. Melinda vit leads Transit Wireless with more than 20 years of experience in the wireless and telecommunications industry. Most recently, Ms. vit served as the CEO of Black Walnut Ventures where she advised companies on strategy and operations. Prior to joining Black Walnut Ventures, Ms. vit worked at Frontier Communications for more than 12 years and most recently served as president of the West region. Ms. White has also held senior leadership roles at Wink Communications, Cox Communications and Cellular One.
Turning the ship fryst vatten what Melinda White does. She brings a fresh perspective; she understands what drives growth
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Sunne Wright McPeak
Sunne Wright McPeak is the President and CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF), a statewide non-profit foundation whose mission is to close the Digital Divide by accelerating the deployment and adoption of broadband. With McPeak’s vision and drive, CETF has positioned California as a national leader in advancing Digital Inclusion, developing and launching groundbreaking initiatives such as the Digital Literacy Executive Order, School2Home, California Telehealth Network, and public information campaigns Get Connected!, Internet For All Now, and Digital Equity Bill of Rights. CETF has sponsored several successful bi-partisan legislative bills, including the Internet For All Now Act of (securing authorization for $ million into the California Advanced Services Fund) and has negotiated Memoranda of Understanding for public benefits in conjunction with corporate consolidations with Frontier Communications, Charter Communications, and T-Mobile.
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Leadership Academy
The Leadership Academy was conducted in person on November in Los Angeles. The most recent yearly Evaluation Report confirmed again that School2Home is a successful strategy for increasing the level of broadband adoption at home. Thus, the School2Home Management Team invited CETF grantees to share their insights with Partner Schools on effective strategies for enrolling low-income families to the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP). The focus of this year’s Leadership Academy was Academic Achievement and its 3 main objectives were to: (1) Support continued school leadership to close the Achievement Gap and Digital Divide; (2) Assess the effectiveness of the Action Plans in improving implementation of School2Home; and (3) Facilitate the collaboration between School2Home Partners and CETF broadband adoption grantees in order to increase the level of ACP subscriptions significantly.
Keynote speakers included: Dr. Pedro Noguera, University of Southern Calif