Our team's skill and experience in building effective organizational structures, cooperative dynamics and longevity for PTOs caught the attention of the LAUSD in 2004. MKA was contracted by LAUSD to educate and train over 80 primary and secondary schools in various areas including parent and community involvement, outreach and fundraising. MKA continues to work with the District and the LAUSD Board of Education toward improving public education for all.
MKA is extremely proud to offer the talents of its extraordinarily skilled consultants to our clients. All of our consultants are parents in the public school system themselves and have had extensive experience as parent leaders at their respective schools and as public education advocates in their communities. Please see our full story.
Geri Galian Miller – Specialist in Fundraising, Corporate Donor, Event Planning, Marketing Strategies and Curriculum Enhancement (School Garden Program)
Ms. Miller possesses a background of over 15 years of extensive experience in business management and administration at UCLA Health Sciences Center and Medical School. She also co-founded the Institute for Medical Education, a continuing medical education company at UCLA, designing and marketing events and procuring corporate funding for educational seminars and major destination events. She is a University of California, Davis certified Master Gardener and designs standards-based school garden programs as part our Curriculum Enhancement services.
Jeannie Kamm - Specialist in Community Outreach, PTO Infrastructure, Organizational Strategies and Volunteer Mobilization and Curriculum Enhancement (Music)
Ms. Kamm’s background in accounting and skill in designing and implementing organizational strategies and infrastructure for PTOs and non-profit foundations were critical in successfully mobilizing her community into a grass-roots movement to improve local public education in 1998. Her managerial expertise and leadership skills proved invaluable to this movement which resulted in the transformation of Lanai Road School.
Jeff Miller, PhD - Specialist in Educational Leadership and Institutional Motivation
Dr. Miller earned his doctorate in educational psychology from the University of Southern California. Dr. Miller’s expertise provides in-depth support to our schools by giving his guidance and training directly to educators in the area of leadership skills and motivational techniques in educational contexts. He is a professor at California State University, Dominguez Hills and the University of Southern California and teaches courses in motivation, educational psychology and facilitates doctoral seminars in organizational leadership. He has provided professional development and consulted across the state of California. Dr. Miller compliments his academic background with classroom teaching experience in the Los Angeles Unified School District (1992-1999). He taught in elementary and middle school
environments at Martin Luther King Jr. elementary school (Ten Schools Project) and Foshay Learning Center.
Lynn Alvarez, J.D. – Specialist in Grant Writing
Lynn Alvarez earned her law degree from UC Berkeley. She draws on her experience as a faculty member at The Grantmaking School at the Johnson Center, Grand Valley State University and a UCLA law professor to provide intensive and comprehensive training to our client schools in the areas of grant writing and administration. In her former role as senior program officer at The California Endowment, Ms. Alvarez managed a $30 million grant portfolio involving more than 25 community foundations. As a program officer at the California Community Foundation and the Peninsula Community Foundation, she worked extensively in the areas of child development, education, human services, affordable housing and the arts.
Miki Chase – Specialist in Curriculum Enhancement
Ms. Chase holds a CLAD Credential and Master’s degree in Education from UCLA. She has six years of classroom experience in the public school system as an elementary school teacher. Ms. Chase is a specialist in designing and implementing Standards-based Art Docent and Science Docent Programs as well as other curriculum enhancement events such as Multicultural Day and Science EXPOs.
Do you have what it takes to join Team MKA?
Send us an email with a summary of your professional background and volunteer experience to info@millerkamm.com. We are looking for individuals who have been successful leaders as professionals and/or volunteers in public education and who want to help us spread the MKA formula for success to other public schools.
