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Board of Directors

The Iowa College Access Network board of directors is made up of up to 11 members with experiences in education, nonprofits and diversity relations. Each director is nominated by current ICAN board members and serve a three-year term.

 

Katy Blatnick-Gagne is the CTE Curriculum Facilitator at Waukee Community School District in Waukee.

 

 

 


Tammy Bramley is a retired Monona County Supervisor and retired loan officer and manager of Community Bank in Soldier. Bramley is also a board member of Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corporation in West Des Moines and the Monona County Economic Development Corporation in Onawa.

 

 


John Davis (Board Chair) is a retired counselor from Southwest Iowa and President of Tarkio Technology Institute in Tarkio, Missouri.

 

 


Brent Gage Ph.D. (Vice Chair/Secretary) is the Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

 

 


Maria GentileMaria Gentile is the Vice President for Enrollment Management at Loras College in Dubuque.

 

 


Bill Gerhard is the past president of the Iowa State Building and Construction Trades Union and is a member of the Laborers Local 43 in Cedar Rapids.

 

 

 


Dan GosaDan Gosa is a Heat and Frost Insulator with Local 81 in the Quad Cities, and serves as the President of the Quad Cities Federation of Labor, the President of the Great River Area Labor Federation, the President of the Davenport Community School Board.

 

 

 


Nick KettmannNick Kettmann is the Director of Admissions at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids.

 

 

 


Steve McCullough is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Iowa Student Loan Liquidity Corporation in West Des Moines.

 

 


Tracie Pavon (Treasurer) is Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management at Simpson College in Indianola.

 


 


Jenae SikkinkJenae Sikkink is Senior Vice President of Talent Development for the Greater Des Moines Partnership in Des Moines.

 

 

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