<H6 style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><EM><FONT size=2><FONT face="comic sans ms">Dr. Jazz Kaur received her Doctorate in Organization and Leadership at the University of San Francisco. Her dissertation topic emphasized on emotional intelligence and urban leadership for which she was awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Student Award. Dr. Kaur has her Masters degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the California State University, with an emphasis in Urban Leadership. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></EM></SPAN></H6> <H6 style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><EM><FONT size=2 face="comic sans ms"> </FONT></EM></o:p></SPAN></H6> <H6 style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><EM><FONT size=2><FONT face="comic sans ms">She is the founder and former Director of the nationally awarded EDS Job Shadow Program. The program received multiple awards locally and nationally, including Most Significant Impact award from Linking Education and Economic Development (LEED) and a Business Partner award from SCUSD. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She is also the awardee of the 2003 National Women of Color award in Educational Leadership. <o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></EM></SPAN></H6> <H6 style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><EM><FONT size=2 face="comic sans ms"> </FONT></EM></o:p></SPAN></H6> <H6 style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><EM><FONT size=2><FONT face="comic sans ms"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt">Dr. Kaur’s professional experiences have given her an extensive professional background in the areas of leadership, ethics, compliance, business, administration, emotional intelligence community collaborations, service boards, and information technology.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></EM></H6> <H6 style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><EM><FONT size=2 face="comic sans ms"> </FONT></EM></o:p></SPAN></H6> <H6 style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><EM><FONT size=2><FONT face="comic sans ms">Currenty, she is the Director and Principal Investigator for Innovative and Collaborative Solutions (IC Solutions) and holds an executive position with an IT services company, Affiliated Computer Services, a Xerox company, as the Medi-Cal CA-MMIS Audit Manager. She is also an Adjunct Faculty member at the University of San Francisco and California State University, Sacramento.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></EM></SPAN></H6> <H6 style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p><EM><FONT size=2 face="comic sans ms"> </FONT></EM></o:p></SPAN></H6> <H6 style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 0in 0in 7.5pt" class=MsoNormal><EM><FONT size=2><FONT face="comic sans ms"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Dr. Kaur has presented in her areas of her expertise, which include urban leadership, school-to-career transformation, project-based management, business and organizational change management using Kaizen methodologies, IT compliance awareness, and conducted several motivational speaking engagements.</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN" lang=EN> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></EM></H6> <H6><SPAN style="LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', 'serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><EM><FONT size=2 face="comic sans ms">Her work also involves volunteer efforts with community-based organizations and schools across the Sacramento region</FONT></EM></SPAN></H6>