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Plugged
In Staff
| Patrick
Brock |
Outreach Coordinator / Facilities Manager |
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Patrick has been a community member here in East
Palo Alto for several years. As a dedicated and
motivated individual Patrick has helped several
people become business owners throughout the city.
As an active community member and long time resident
Patrick explains, "I love to help individuals
who want to work hard and make dreams come true."
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| Magda
A. Escobar |
Executive Director |
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Magda A. Escobar is responsible
for all the operations and management of Plugged
In. Magda graduated from Stanford University in
1992. She started her career as a Team Leader at
City Year Boston where she worked in early childhood
education. She was a consultant to the Commission
on National and Community Service researching effective
models for delivering technical assistance and training
to national service programs around the country.
She continued her non-profit work as the National
Program Director at Public Allies in Washington
DC - an organization dedicated to cultivating a
new generation of civic, community, and non-profit
leaders. While there, she helped expand the program
from two to six cities across the United States.
Magda is on the Board of Directors of Joint Venture
Silicon Valley, the Non-Profit Advisory Board of
Network for Good, a member of the International
Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a member of
the Steering Committee for the California Community
Technology Policy Group and has served on the Board
of Directors of the Social Enterprise Alliance and
Our Schools Our Media. Magda is a 2001 Center for
Social Innovation Fellow at the Stanford Graduate
School of Business and was named one of Ms. magazine's
Women of the Year in 2001.
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| Michael
Levin |
EPA.net Content Manager
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Michael has 10 years experience with media for
community development in East Palo Alto. From
1993 to 1996 he researched, produced and directed
"Dreams of a City: Creating East Palo Alto,"
a 55-minute documentary on the history of the
city. This award-winning film is the most widely
used introduction to the history of East Palo
Alto and has appeared in festivals, shown on PBS
and been utilized by university courses nation-wide.
Michael has also produced three other films about
East Palo Alto, worked in nonprofit development
and been a content producer for university and
private sector web and software efforts. He holds
a B.A. in Communication from the University of
California at UC Santa Cruz and an M.A. in Communication
with a focus on Documentary Film and Video from
Stanford University. Languages: English.
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| Nadine
Watson |
Technology Access Points Director |
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Nadine has 14 years experience in the technology industry and ten years of
experience doing community technology-related volunteer work. Her experience
spans a host of positions and companies ranging from her start as a computer
operator at Abbott Critical Care Systems to software engineering at IDX
Systems Corporations where she worked just before joining Plugged In. Nadine
was the volunteer director of the Maranatha Computer Advancement Center in
San Jose since its inception in 1993 where she acquired funds from the City
of San Jose, Silicon Valley Bank, and Maranatha Christian Center to purchase
16 computers, created a mechanism to transport 40 - 60 youth per week from
an affordable housing development to utilize the center's homework and
computer programs, and provided in-home service for senior citizens
troubleshooting and repairing computers.
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Rolando
Zeledon
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Executive Producer
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Rolando was previously was part of the Schools
Online development team and program team, where
he managed projects in Latin America and the United
States. As Regional Program Director, he coordinated
the installation of thirty-eight Internet Learning
Centers in schools in Argentina, Ecuador, El Salvador,
Costa Rica, India, Spain, Paraguay, and Peru.
In 1992, Rolando graduated with distinction from
Stanford University with a B.S. in Mechanical
Engineering. Subsequently, he received both a
M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering in 1994
and a M.S. in Engineering Management from Stanford
University. Languages: English and Spanish.
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| Volunteer |
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If you would like to volunteer at Plugged
In please email one of our staff or you may fill out
our volunteer form and we will contact you as soon as
possible.
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| Volunteer Accomplishments |

"Jan Krieg, a.k.a
Dr. Technology, helped build our winning soap box car
for the Sand Hill Challange" |
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