Office Information
Los Angeles County
UC Cooperative Extension, Los Angeles County
4800 E. Cesar E. Chavez Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90022
Phone: (323) 260-2267
Fax: (323) 260-5208
County Director
Rachel A. Surls Ph.D.
Title: County Director
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: ramabie@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3886
Fax: (323) 260-5208
Staff List
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Administrative Office
4-H Youth Development
Network for a Healthy California
Common Ground Garden Program
Environmental Horticulture
Natural Resources
Nutrition, Family & Consumer Science
Antelope Valley/Lancaster Office
Administrative Office
Rhonda Anderson-Tsuji
Title: Management Services Officer & Office Manager
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: rmandersontsuji@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3898
Fax: (323) 260-5208
Ray Grabinski
Title: Governmental Relations Coordinator
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Phone: (323) 260-3200
Fax: (323) 260-5208
Dohee Kim MPP
Title: Grant Writer/Director of Media Outreach
Email: deekim@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3880
Fax: (323) 260-5208
Veanne Otto
Title: Budget Analyst
Email: votto@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3899
Fax: 323.260-5271
4-H Youth Development
Dawn Fuller
Title: 4-H Program Coordinator
Email: dafuller@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 323-260-3859
Roy Hillstock
Title: Computer Resource Specialist II
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: rlhillstock@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3854
Fax: (323) 260-5271
Keith C. Nathaniel Ed.D.
Title: 4-H Youth Development Advisor
Specialty: Adolescent Development; Educational Planning; Social Capital and Community Networks
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: kcnathaniel@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3845
Fax: (323) 260-5271
Antonette Pavia
Title: Administrative Assistant, 4-H Youth Development Program
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: ampavia@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3850
Fax: (323) 260-5271
Network for a Healthy California
Gloria Barragan
Title: Program Assistant
Specialty: Network for a Healthy California - Latino Campaign Assistant
Phone: 323-260-3828
Carly Marino
Title: Project Coordinator
Specialty: Network for a Healthy California - Children's Power Play! Campaign
Email: camarino@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 323-260-3388
Ben Melendrez
Title: Project Assistant, Children's Power Play! Campaign
Email: bmelendrez@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 323-260-3840
Fax: (323) 881-1951
Alejandrina Orozco
Title: Project Coordinator, Latino Campaign
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: orozco@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3829
Fax: (323) 881-1951
Magdalena Quintana
Title: Administrative Assistant, Children's Power Play! Campaign
Notes: Power Play! Campaign. Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: mquintana@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3841
Fax: (323) 881-1951
Rebecca Villa
Title: Administrative Assistant II, Latino Campaign
Email: rvilla@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3356
Fax: (323) 881-1951
Common Ground Garden Program
Sue Giordano
Title: Food Safety Food Preservation Coordinator
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: sugiordano@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3201
Fax: (323) 881-0067
Gloria Mitchell
Title: Administrative Assistant, Common Ground Garden Program
Specialty: Common Ground Garden Program
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: gjmitche@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3348
Fax: (323) 881-0067
Yvonne Savio
Title: Program Manager/Master Gardener Coordinator
Specialty: Master Gardeners, community gardening, school gardening
Email: ydsavio@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3407
Fax: (323) 881-0067
Environmental Horticulture
Janet S Hartin
Title: Environmental Horticulture Advisor
Specialty: Environmental horticulture, sustainable landscapes (irrigation and greenwaste management)
Email: jshartin@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (951)313-2023
Donald R. Hodel
Title: Environmental Horticulture Advisor
Specialty: Selection & management of palms and other woody ornamentals in the landscape
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: drhodel@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3405
Fax: (323) 260-5271
John N. Kabashima M.B.A., Ph.D.
Title: County Director Environmental Horticulture Advisor
Specialty: Ornamental horticulture, nursery crops, pest management, exotic and invasive pests, water runoff, water quality
Email: jnkabashima@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (714) 708-1606
Cheryl A. Wilen
Title: Area Integrated Pest Management Advisor
Specialty: Integrated Pest Management for ornamental plant production and maintenance including nurseries, greenhouses, field production, floriculture, turf and landscape. Projects related to pesticide reduction and alternatives in urban (non-Ag) areas. Research specialty in weed management.Other key words: Urban Pest Management, Environmental Horticulture
Notes: cell: 949-338-1842
5555 Overland Ave. Bldg 4, Suite 4101
San Diego, 92123
Email: cawilen@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (858) 694-2846
Fax: 858-694-2849
Natural Resources
Carl E. Bell
Title: Regional Advisor, head quartered in San Diego
Specialty: Invasive Plants
5555 Overland Ave.
San Diego, 92123-1219
Email: cebell@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (858) 694-3386
Fax: (858) 694-2849
Valerie Borel
Title: Watershed and Wildland Fire Education Coordinator
Specialty: Education and Outreach for Wildland Fire and Watershed Processes
4800 E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave.,
Los Angeles, 90022
Email: vtborel@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 323-260-3851
Fax: (323) 260-5208
Sabrina L. Drill Ph.D.
Title: Natural Resources Advisor
Specialty: Watershed education, conservation and restoration of aquatic and wildland habitats and anadramous fishes
Notes: Covers Los Angeles and Ventura Counties
Email: sldrill@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3404
Fax: (323) 260-5208
Monique Myers D.Env.
Title: Coastal Community Development Advisor
Email: nicmyers@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 805-645-1482
Nutrition, Family & Consumer Science
Cynthia Bandera
Title: Youth EFNEP Program Coordinator
Email: cgbandera@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3345
Fax: (323) 881-0067
Margarita Z. Ductoc
Title: Nutrition Program Coordinator
Specialty: Adult EFNEP
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: mzductoc@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3339
Fax: (323) 881-0067
Margaret Fields
Title: Nutrition Program Coordinator
Specialty: Adult EFNEP and Adult FSNEP
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: mcfields@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3237
Fax: (323) 881-0067
Cynthia Orozco
Title: Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program Coordinator
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: corozco@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3346
Fax: (323) 881-0067
Brenda Roche M.S., R.D.
Title: Nutrition, Family & Consumer Sciences Advisor
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
4800 E. Cesar Chavez Avenue
Los Angeles, CA, 90022
Email: bkroche@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3299
Fax: (323) 881-0067
Ellen L. Sandor
Title: Youth FSNEP Program Assistant
Email: elsandor@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 323.260.3350
Fax: (323) 881-0067
Margo R Vasilj
Title: Administrative Assistant, Receptionist, Nutrition, Family & Consumer Science
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: mrvasilj@ucdavis.edu
Fax: (323) 881-0067
Bridget Vaults
Title: Administrative Assistant, Nutrition, Family and Consumer Science
Notes: Mailing address: PO Box 22255, Los Angeles, CA 90022
Email: bbvaults@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (323) 260-3351
Fax: (323) 881-0067
Antelope Valley/Lancaster Office
Andre S Biscaro
Title: Agriculture and Environmental Issues Advisor
335-A East K6
Lancaster, 93535
Email: asbiscaro@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (661)723-4480
Jennifer Dana
Title: Administrative Assistant
335-A East K-6
Lancaster, 93535
Email: jrdana@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 661-723-4477
Charlene Moore
Title: 4-H YDP Antelope Valley Coordinator
335-A East K-6
Lancaster, 93535
Email: moore@ucdavis.edu
Phone: (661) 723-4477
Fax: (323) 723-3751
Emily Bastia
Title: Power Play Project Assistant
Email: ebastia@ucdavis.edu
Phone: 323-260-3830