National Office Staff
Mimi Lufkin
Chief Executive Officer
STEM Equity Pipeline Project Director
mimilufkin@napequity.org
Mimi Lufkin has over 26 years of experience as an educator and as an administrator
of local and state level projects in California and Pennsylvania. In California
Mimi’s career began in 1979 as high school agricultural education teacher. Over
the next fifteen years she was a teacher educator, an executive director of a women’s
microenterprise development agency and the director of development for a community
college.
Mimi graduated from U.C. Davis with a BS in Animal Science and then attained a MS
in Agricultural Sciences from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis
Obispo and a MA in Educational Administration from St. Mary’s College.
In 1994, Mimi moved to Pennsylvania and became the Executive Director of the National
Alliance for Partnerships in Equity, a consortium of state and local education and
workforce agencies providing national leadership for equity in education and workforce
development. In this capacity she reviews and analyzes federal legislation, conducts
professional development activities and provides technical assistance to state and
local educational agencies focused on best practices for serving special population
students.
Joyce Ayers
Manager of Finance and Administration
jayers@napequity.org
Joyce has over 20 years experience in the non-profit field. She worked for Chemung
Schuyler Steuben (CSS) Workforce Development in Corning, NY where she did a variety
of jobs including managing youth programs, monitoring awardees, managing the office
and eventually working in the finance office. Following 15 years at CSS, Joyce became
the Finance Manager at the Economic Opportunity Program (EOP) (a community action
program) in Elmira, NY. After moving from NY, she worked in the accounting offices
of various manufacturing businesses in Nashville, TN, Raleigh, NC and Morgantown,
PA. She has an AS in Human Services from Corning Community College, Corning, NY.
At NAPE she handles all phases of accounting, updates and tracks the national database,
manages NAPE State and Affiliate membership records and coordinates registration,
logistics and resource materials for all NAPE sponsored events across the country.
Holly Blue
Manager of Member Services
hblue@napequity.org
Holly Blue has over 18 years experience as a Graphic Designer and 5 years experience
teaching at the post-secondary level. She has a BFA from Rhode Island School of
Design in Industrial Design (1985). An AS from Corning Community College in Corning,
NY (1982) and took all the core classes in Graphic Arts Technology from State Technical
Institute in Memphis. As the spouse of a Navy Chief, Holly resided in many areas
of the country. Her career began in 1990 working as a Graphic Designer and Program
Assistant for the Adak, Alaska Community Education Department. During which time
she also taught Humanities and Art classes for the University of Alaska. After transferring
to Memphis, TN in 1994 and attending classes, she taught Graphic Arts Computer classes
for State Tech in Memphis. The next transfer was to Mississippi in 1997 where she
began a career in magazine layout and worked for local and national magazines such
as COAST, AutoWorld and Country Weekly. Moving to Nashville in 2001 to work at Country
Weekly, she spent her evenings teaching Graphic and Interior Design Classes at The
International Academy of Design and Technology. She had a brief stint at a small
advertising agency before finding a job at Vertis Communications, Inc. Vertis is
one of the largest communications companies in America. This job brought her to
Pennsylvania where she learned about the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity.
She joined our staff in January of 2008 and has created various print project such
as brochures and folders, as well as working on the redesigns of both the NAPE and
the STEM Equity Pipeline websites. She also manages the NAPE listserv and creates
informational announcements for our members and staff. Being part of small multifunctional
office, her responsibilities include helping the organization in a variety of ways
beyond her communications role.
Greg Nagy
Virtual Learning Community Manager
nagy.8@osu.edu
Greg Nagy is a Web Communications Systems Engineer at the Center on Education and
Training for Employment (CETE) at The Ohio State University. He has worked in the
non-profit field for almost 10 years. He previously was the Director of Technology
for the National Dissemination Center for Career and Technical Education. Mr. Nagy
currently works for a variety of grant funded, educational projects at the center.
Besides the STEM Equity Pipeline Project, Greg also works on the KNOTtT Project,
a consortium of colleges/universities and school districts in Kansas, Nevada, Ohio,
and Texas that is transitioning 545 participants to teaching, while addressing the
national issue of teacher quality. Mr. Nagy performs a range of duties for these
projects including: developing and maintaining the project websites, providing training
and technical support via Live Meeting, coordinating the production of courses into
Moodle utilizing software, producing training videos, and providing technical support
to the project, his peers, and its members.