Dr. Salvatrice Cummo,
Vice President-Economic and Workforce Development,
Pasadena City College

Salvatrice drives the Pasadena City College strategy to supply a trained and flexible workforce that serves the region’s labor market needs. Each year, it educates more than 29,000 students across disciplines that include 80 career education fields such as automotive technology, building construction and TV and radio production. The college also is a source of interns and apprentices for businesses to provide on-the-job training to future workers. Its career education and workforce programs got a boost with statewide investment through the Doing What Matters Strong Workforce Program—which has provided more than $2.8 million to local programs in construction, advanced manufacturing and technology, advanced transportation; energy efficiency, utilities, information and communication technologies; life sciences; small business and entrepreneurship, and other fields.
Salvatrice was executive director of the Small Business Development Center at Pasadena City College, which operates in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration to assist small business owners and served as director of business development for the Montebello, Calif., Chamber of Commerce. She has an M.S degree in entrepreneurship and innovation from the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business and a B.S degree from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.