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The Contra Costa Community College District is set to host a forum featuring discussions with two candidates for an upper-level cabinet position in the district that was vacated earlier this year, one of whom is a familiar name in Tri-Valley education.
The two finalists in the district’s recruitment process for associate vice chancellor/chief financial officer position are Amy Nichols and Tony Wold, with each candidate set to be the focus of individual forums scheduled for Wednesday (July 26).
The announcement of the finalists and their introductions to the district community with the upcoming forums come following the resignation of former CFO Phyllis Carter at the end of May, several weeks after she was placed on paid administrative leave for undisclosed reasons. She was selected for the position from a total of four finalists in 2021.
Wold was among the four finalists for the CFO position in 2021, along with Carter and Micaela Ochoa, a former deputy superintendent with the Pleasanton Unified School District from 2014 to 2019. Ochoa now serves as CCCCD’s executive vice chancellor of administrative services after being selected for the position last June.
Wold’s most recent school district experience is with the West Contra Costa Unified School District as assistant superintendent of business services from 2019 to 2021, having held the same position at the Westminster School District from 2015 to 2019. Since 2021, he has served as chief business officer in residence for School Innovations and Achievement, and been self-employed as an executive and principal designer for District OS, which provides analytic services using public school district data.
Like Ochoa, Nichols also has a background with PUSD, having started with the district in 2016 as director of technology services through 2019, when she was appointed as senior director of procurement and technology, staying in the position through June 2021. She currently serves as Chief Business Official for Roseland Public Schools in Santa Rosa.
The forums are set to begin at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, with Wold scheduled first in the lineup for one hour followed by Nichols from 2:45-3:45 p.m. Registration and more information is available here.
