Joseph Munso of Sacramento, with over 37 years of state service, currently serves as the Undersecretary for the Health and Human Services Agency focusing on Health Information Technology, emergency preparedness, and health privacy issues. He also was responsible for the budget development process for the entire Health and Human Services Agency.

Previously, he served as Chief Deputy Director of the California Children and Families Commission. Joe was responsible for the start up of the State Commission and assisted in the development of many of the Commission’s early initiatives such as health care for all children 0-5 in California, and many other early learning programs.

Joe served as Chief Deputy Director of the Department of Health Services where he was responsible for the day-to-day management of a $35 billion budget and a number of public health programs, including the Medi-Cal program, preventative health services and primary care and family health services programs.

Joe also served many years as the Chief Financial Officer for the Department of Social Services.

Molly Munger is a co-founder and director of the Advancement Project, a national organization founded in 1998 to create and promote new strategies for achieving inclusion and equity.  A 25-five year litigation veteran, she is also a co-founder and partner in the Los Angeles civil rights law firm English, Munger & Rice.  Between 1994 and 1998, Munger served with her current law partner, Connie Rice, as Western Regional Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Between 1974 and 1994, she served as an assistant United States Attorney, a partner in the all-women litigation firm Baird, Munger & Meyers, and a partner in the Los Angeles office of New York-based Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson.

Munger is a graduate of Radcliffe College and Harvard Law School. She serves on the boards of the James Irvine Foundation, Occidental College, Children Now, Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, and Westridge School for Girls.

Dr. Maria E. Minon, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina currently serves as Vice President of Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer for Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC), a position she has held since 1998. In this capacity, Dr. Minon works to facilitate and oversee the activities of the medical staff, medical quality and patient safety, Psychology Training Program, Graduate and Continuing Medical Education, CHOC's Heart, Neuroscience, Orthopaedic and Cancer Institutes and Clinical and Basic Science Research departments. Dr. Minon also served on the CHOC Board of Directors for three years. 

Dr. Minon has made a strong commitment to helping the community. Dr. Minon is the current Chair of the Orange County Children and Families Commission. She served the Orange County Medical Association (OCMA) as President for the 2000-2001 term. She has also served as OCMA's Treasurer and member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Minon is a Vice Chair for the Orange County Ronald McDonald House Board of Trustees as well as serving as Director for the Ronald McDonald House of Southern California Charities Board of Directors. She participates on the Latino Health Access Board of Directors. Dr. Minon is a diligent advocate for Health Care in Orange County as evidenced by her service on the California Medical Association Board of Trustees, Finance Committee, Nominating Committee and House of Delegates. She has served as President of the California Chapter IV of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and participated for six years on the AAP's Committee on Child Health Finances. 

Honors awarded to Dr. Minon include the 2007 OCMA Physician of the Year, the Charlie Hester Philanthropy Award, Outstanding Pediatric Student by the Orange Pediatric Society and Cum laude Honors from the UCI School of Humanities.

Dr. Minon earned her Medical Degree at University of California, Irvine . She conducted her post-graduate training at UCI Medical Center and Children's Hospital of Orange County, where she was appointed Chief Resident. UCI College of Medicine appointed Dr. Minon a faculty position as Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics. Dr. Minon worked in private practice for general pediatrics and adolescent medicine from 1979 to 1998.

Conway Collis is Senior Counselor and Chief Government Affairs Officer for Daughters of Charity Health System (DCHS). DCHS is a California health care system of hospitals and medical centers committed to serving and advocating for low-income Californians and providing compassionate, holistic care to all. DCHS furthers the mission of its sponsors, the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, who have provided health care to Californians since establishing the state’s first hospital in 1856. Collis previously served as an elected Member and Chairman of the California State Board of Equalization, a domestic policy advisor to U.S. Sen. Alan Cranston, and a Committee Counsel for the U.S. Senate.

As a Counsel for the U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee and domestic policy advisor to U.S. Senator Alan Cranston, Collis was responsible for advising on federal domestic public policy issues including poverty, health and social and legal services.

Collis was elected to the California State Board of Equalization, California’s umbrella tax and revenue agency, in 1982. Re-elected in 1986, he served as Chairman of the Equalization Board, overseeing an agency with over 1500 employees in 57 offices. He wrote and sponsored a number of new laws and regulations, including the State Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, tax credits for employer-sponsored childcare and the elimination of tax benefits for discriminatory private clubs. He also implemented a broad modernization and reform of the state tax bureaucracy. While on the Board, Collis chaired a major 1986 statewide voter registration drive, registering nearly 300,000 voters, and was the proponent of a 1988 statewide initiative to address housing and homelessness through a coordinated, cost-effective program. In 2001, he served as Chairman of the California State Senate Bipartisan Task Force on Homelessness.

Most recently, Collis initiated the Medi-Cal provider fee (AB 1383 by Dave Jones, D-Sac) on behalf of DCHS, which is projected to generate $3.5 billion to provide health care to low- income Californians and over $300 million for children’s health care.

Collis currently serves on the boards of Kids In Sports, Alliance of Catholic Health Care and Private Essential Access Community Hospitals.

Collis graduated with honors from Occidental College in 1970 and Stanford Law School in 1974. He is married to Margaret S. Henry, Supervising Superior Court Judge of Los Angeles County Dependency Court. They have two sons, Rocky and Luke.

Patrick Duterte has served as director of the Solano County Department of Health and Social Services since 2001. He previously worked in Silicon Valley’s Santa Clara County Human Services Agency as Director of Employment and Benefit Services, and managed child welfare and employment programs in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties. He also has worked as a rehabilitation counselor and counseling supervisor.

In addition to the First 5 California State Commission, Mr. Duterte serves on the boards of United Way of the Bay Area, the National Association of County Human Services Administrators, Partnership Health Plan of California and Workforce Investment.

Following a tour of duty in Vietnam, Mr. Duterte received his bachelor and master degrees from University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State, respectively.

Mr. Duterte and his wife, Diane, have been married for 31 years, and have five children ranging in age from 13 to 29. They currently reside in Fairfield, CA.

Casey McKeever is an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) for the California Department of Social Services, a position he has held since December 2007. He decides appeals of people who contest state and local agency actions affecting public social services, including Medi-Cal, In-home Supportive Services, food stamps and CalWORKs. Before he became an ALJ, he served for five years as Chief Consultant to the Assembly Committee on Human Services, drafting and analyzing legislation and advising the committee chair on human services issues.

Casey was an anti-poverty lawyer and advocate for over 25 years with Legal Services of Northern California and the Western Center on Law and Poverty, where he was Directing Attorney of the Sacramento office from 1985-2003. He was principally responsible at Western Center for leading state level advocacy efforts on behalf of Californians needing public assistance. In this capacity he drafted, sponsored and supported legislation creating a homeless assistance program for families with children, authorizing hardship supplement payments, reducing duplicative paperwork requirements and promoting education and training for low-income parents. He was a leading voice on behalf of the poor opposing reductions in assistance to families contained in some of the welfare reform proposals debated in the 1980s and 1990s. He was appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services Sandra Smoley to the Welfare Reform Steering Committee in 1998 to assist with implementation of California’s CalWORKs program.

Honors Casey has received include a lifetime achievement award from California Food Policy Advocates, an Opening Doors to Justice Award by the Public Interest Clearinghouse, a Legal Services Achievement Award by the Legal Services Section of the State Bar, Public Citizen of the Year by the California Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, and the Ida B. Wells Award for Outstanding Contributions Toward Economic Justice for Women by the Women’s Economic Agenda Project. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1973 and a J.D from Stanford Law School in 1976.

Joyce Iseri has over three decades of experience in health and human service issues in the public and private sectors. She currently is a consultant for Capitol Academy 120, a program for local elected officials sponsored by the California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus Institute.

From 2002 to 2004, Iseri was chief deputy director of the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, a state agency that provides health coverage to uninsured Californians. Prior to that, she was the principal consultant for health and human services for the Assembly Appropriations Committee under Chairs Carole Migden and Darrell Steinberg. Her 14 years of legislative experience also includes serving as consultant with the Senate Health and Human Services Committee and the Assembly Office of Research. In addition, she has held managerial positions in the California Departments of Social Services and Corrections, as well as serving as Executive Director of a foster care provider association for seven years.

Iseri holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Wisconsin and has done graduate work in economics at the University of Hawaii and UCLA. Her community activities include serving on the board of the Asian Pacific Youth Leadership Project.