Mimi Lufkin

Mimi Lufkin has over 26 years of experience as an educator and administrator of local and state level projects in California and Pennsylvania. In California, her career began in 1979 as a high school agricultural education teacher. Over the next fifteen years she was a teacher educator, executive director of a women’s microenterprise development agency, and director of development for a community college.

In 1994, Ms. Lufkin moved to Pennsylvania and became the Executive Director of the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity, a consortium of state and local education and workforce agencies providing national leadership for equity in education and workforce development. In this capacity she reviews federal legislation, conducts professional development activities, and provides technical assistance to state and local educational agencies focused on best practices for serving special population students.