Tony Anderson serves as the Executive Director and principle lobbyist for The Arc of California. He joined the TAC one and a half years ago and as a stakeholder, is a strong advocate.

Sandi Burnett MA, OTR, MFT, is the ADA/504 Compliance Officer, Disabled Student Services Professor, at Santa Monica College (SMC). She is also a consumer with a life-long disability. With pride, she is UCLA Class of 1971.

Linda Butler works at Westside Regional Center as a Consumer Coordinator with her officemates, Kecia and Alan. She is also a self-advocate.

Wayne Cook is currently the Manager of the Arts in Education Program and the ADA 504 Coordinator for the California Arts Council. He is also responsible for working with the newly established Arts and Disability Network headed by Kari Pope (Tarjan Center) of NADC.

Krisi Franzone represents People First on the Tarjan Advisory Committee. She is also a self-advocate and has served on the TAC for one year.

In 2005, Marcia Good was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to Area Board 10 and the State Council on Developmental Disabilities. For the past twenty years as the mother of a son who is a person with Down syndrome, Marcia has been a parent-leader in the effort to bring special education classes back to local schools and include students with developmental disabilities on local community college campuses. Her involvement on the State Council (currently as Chair) led to Marcia accepting membership on UCLA’s Tarjan Advisory Committee and the Consortium on Postsecondary Education.

Joe Meadours is Self Advocate/Executive People First of California.
Before coming to CA less than a year ago, Joe spent the previous five years working in Alabama at the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation. He was President of the Oklahoma People First before that. He is a firm believer that “we should fund people not programs." His goal and dream in life is to move back to Oklahoma and become a State Representative. In the last few years he has written a book about relationships and is working on his second one called Policy Making: A View of a Self Advocate.

Peter Mendoza serves as a member of the Rehabilitation Appeals Board appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger. He is the newly elected Co-Chair of the TAC.

Barbara Silva is the Deputy Directory at Protection and Advocacy. She serves as their representative on the TAC.

Cynthia Simon is a Governor appointed member of the State Council on Developmental Disabilities and represents this agency on the TAC.

Martin Sweeney is manager of the Assistive Technology Network - a California nonprofit resource dedicated to expanding the accessibility of tools, resources and technology supporting the independence, personal productivity and quality of life for all Californians.

Kecia Weller is the Coordinator for Self Advocacy at the Westside Regional Center. She represents consumer advocates in local and state agencies and organizations in order to pave the way for people with disabilities to access employment, health care, dental insurance and paid vacations. In addition, she is a self-advocate and has been on the TAC for several years.

Mario has been a consumer at DDSO/Short Center South since 2000. He is employed as a member of the maintenance crew and enjoys working in ceramics (masks are his forte) and as a percussionist in the Center’s band. Mario plays basketball with the Short Center South’s Special Olympics Basketball team and enjoys watching the Sacramento Kings in his spare time.