Commissioner Katrina VanderWoude serves as Vice Chancellor of Workforce/Economic Development at the Los Angeles Community College District, the largest in the nation with nine accredited colleges serving over 200,000 highly diverse student enrollments. Dr. VanderWoude previously served as president of Los Angeles Trade-Technical College.
A leader in higher education and career mobility programs, Dr. VanderWoude is committed to equity-minded student success and brings that lens and a commitment to anti-racism to all practices and programs and additionally believes that fully collaborative partnerships are critical for ensuring social, economic, and political mobility for our most underrepresented and historically marginalized communities. She considers it a privilege to serve on the Los Angeles Mayor’s Blue-Ribbon Advisory Commission on Reparations.