Our board

“A poor worker in the Lord’s vineyard.”

A member of St. Basil's Parish in Vallejo, Alan is retired after 30 years in financial services.  Over that same span he has been active in Parish and school finance--both through the Catholic Schools Advisory Council and the Parish Finance Council.  Alan also served on the Diocesan School Board and as a Scout leader.  

A retired special education teacher. Music Ministry and Lector (St Michael),Travis Airforce Base Access Adventure Board Member, 2017-18 Solano County Teacher of the Year. She has a BA in Theology from Trinity College Washington D.C. She is a Volunteer Chaplaincy Services for 10 yrs. in the North Bay and Vaca Valley Hospitals and 3 yrs. at David Grant Hospital.

Pastoral Ministry Certificate from Trinity College.

She also has 3 Kids and 6 Grandkids.

Jim Lago graduated from DePaul University, Chicago with a BA, then completed his Masters of Social Work from the University of Illinois, Jane Addams School of Social Work as well as completing a Masters in Business Administration, Accounting from Loyola University.

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Jim was the Executive Director for Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Before that he was the Chancellor for the Archdiocese of Chicago. He also served as the Executive Director for the Catholic Conference of Illinois.

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His appointments include:

• Child Welfare Advisory Council, Chairman – State of Illinois

• Governor Edgar, election Transition Team Chariman

• Multiple State, County and City of Chicago appointment to social services advisory groups.

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Jimmy has been awarded several Papal Awards and honors as well as served under 3 Cardinals of Archdiocese of Chicago.

Director of Catholic Charities and Social Concerns for the Diocese of Sacramento.  She served as Executive Director of Catholic Charities of Yolo-Solano. She has a BS degree in Microbiology from UC Davis and a JD from John F. Kennedy University, College of Law.  As an attorney, she focused on immigration defense and provided pro-bono services to victims of crime. She serves on the board for Radio Santisimo Sacramento. Miriam and her family are active members of their parish. 

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Throughout his more than 20-year career with a professional purpose of harnessing the power of humanistic potential and scientific possibilities to make positive and permanent differences in global public health, Minhthy has held leadership positions at major

multinational and start-up companies with responsibilities for technical organizations and research centers in the United States and across the globe. 

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Minhthy earned his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from the University of California, Davis and a doctorate from The Ohio State University in Food Science and Nutrition as a USDA Fellow and a Kenan Institute of Science, Engineering & Technology Fellow. 

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Minhthy’s career journey comprises tenures with Nestlé in California, Ohio and Connecticut, Abbott Nutrition in Ohio, DuPont Nutrition and Health in Missouri, Mead Johnson Nutrition/Reckitt Nutrition in Indiana.  In 2020, Minhthy joined Evolve Biosystems as Senior Vice President of R&D and Technical Operations in Davis, California and became Chief Operating Officer in 2021. Minhthy recently joined CJ CheilJedang as SVP, Global Science and Technology.

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Minhthy and his wife of 24 years – Serena – currently reside in Woodland, California, a short distance from the Nestlé/Contadina tomato processing plant where his career in the food industry had started as a summer intern in 1991.

Deacon Juan A Moreno was born in the Philippines and migrated to the US with his family in 1970 where he resided in San Francisco CA. As a devout Catholic, his family became active with St Patrick’s Parish in San Francisco, serving in various ministries and was also an employee. Married in 1978 to Olivia C Moreno while with the US Army he decided to pursue a career in Information Technology after six years of service with the military. Upon completion of training and education in IT, he started employment with American Building Maintenance as a Programmer and advanced to a Systems Analyst handling the company’s Payroll System for over 25 years.

Responding to a different calling in life, he returned to school and received a BS in Human Services and started working with the City and County of San Francisco as an Eligibility Worker until retirement after 10 years of service. He moved to Vallejo CA in 1983 to start a family with spouse and raised three sons, and a daughter and joined St Catherine of Siena Parish. As a parishioner, he became active in various ministries and became the permanent deacon of the parish in 2014 after ordination with the Sacramento Diocese.

Executive Director of Catholic Charities of Yolo Solano, Inc.  Prior to this role, John was the Director of Catholic Charities for the Diocese of Sacramento.  Mr. Watkins began his work at Catholic Charities at St. Joseph Family Shelter in San Francisco in 1997 and has held various posts inside of Catholic Charities & the Church since that time.  

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He received a BA in Political Science from UC Irvine in 1992 and a Masters in Nonprofit Administration degree from the University of San Francisco in 2002.

John is happily married with three children.