Cultural Family Advocates
Our Cultural Family Advocates (CFA) serve as a bridge between school, cultural and ethnically diverse students and families to increase awareness and participation for academic and social growth, while keeping their own sense of cultural identity.
CFAs increase awareness, understanding and education for staff on how to work with the unique needs of our diverse student and parent/guardian population. They also provide technical assistance on how to improve communication in other languages to serve our diverse District 196 community.
Our CFAs work in elementary, middle and high school buildings, and each advocate has a schedule that identifies schools and the days they are in the buildings. While some schools do not have a CFA assigned to their building, they are on-call and are available to assist with special circumstances.
Contact Our CFAs
Tyson Colemann
Tyson.Coleman@district196.org
612-274-2829
Milca Dominguez
Milca.Dominguez@district196.org
952-769-7631
Francisca Elzeenny
Francisca.Elzeenny@district196.org
952-353-0688
jennifer ernst
Jennifer.Ernst@district196.org
651-503-8016
Faisal Madar
Faisal.Madar@district196.org
952-769-7625
Clara Montbriand
Clara.Montbriand@district196.org
651-276-8883
Rashelle Redmon
Rashelle.Redmon@district196.org
651-423-7825 or
612-805-4838
Rick Stanton
Josefa Gaona-Pacheco
Josefa.Gaona-Pacheco@district196.org
651-231-2690
Nimo Gedi
Nimo.Gedi@district196.org
952-210-3862
Justin Henry
Lisa Turgeon
Lisa.Turgeon@district196.org
612-810-2427
Jorja Valandra
Jorja.Valandra@district196.org
651-200-8327
Kadra Warsame
Kadra.Warsame@district196.org
651-200-8333
veronica ramos
Veronica.Ramos@district196.org
952-463-5087