California/Brazil Partnership Strategic Action Team

Chair:

Senator Christine Kehoe
California State Senate
State Capitol, Room 4038
Sacramento, CA 95814
Tel: 916-651-4039
Senator.Kehoe@sen.ca.gov

 

Office of Consulate General of Brazil

Consulate General of Brazil
8484 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 730
Beverly Hills, CA 90211

Ambassador Bernardo Pericás Neto General

Consulate General of Brazil
300 Montgomery Street, Suite 900
San Francisco CA 94104 

Rio de Janeiro sunset

San Francisco sunset

 

Current Members:

Doug Brown
Economic Development Consultant
1020 N Street, Suite 516
Sacramento, CA 95814
Tel: (916) 651-1688
dbrown46@gmail.com

DaniellaDe Lucca-Reed, Counsel
Tocchini & Associates PC
222 Dean Way
Folsom, CA 95630
Tel: (916) 248-6687
ddelucca@law-gate.com

Gary Dymski, Director
UC Sacramento Center
1130 K Street, LL22
Sacramento, CA 95814
Tel: (916) 445-5900
Fax: (916) 445-5536
gary.dymski@ucop.edu

Ida Ferraz, Account Manager
 SDI Media Group
10950 Washington Boulevard, Studio B
Culver City, CA 90232
Tel: 310-388-8912
Fax: 310-388-8971
IFerraz@sdimediagroup.com

Evaldo Freire
Deputy Consul General
Consulate General of Brazil in San Francisco
300 Montgomery Street, Suite 900
San Francisco, CA 94104
Tel: 415-981-8170 ext 220
Fax: 415-981-4931
evaldo@brazilsf.org

Randal Johnson
Director, UCLA Latin America Center
10343 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Tel: 310-825-4571
Fax: 310-206-6859
rjohnson@international.ucla.edu

Shyam J. Kamath, Ph.D.
Professor & Director
Executive Programs
California State University East Bay
School of Business & Economics
25800 Carlos Bee Blvd.
Hayward, CA 94542-3066
Tel: 510-885-4275
Fax: 510-885-2570
sjkamath@comcast.net

Sergio Korn
EXPORTBRAS
578 Benedict Canyon Dr.
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Tel: (310) 273-3905
Fax: (310) 273-6977
sergiok@earthlink.net

Daniel C. Orey, Ph.D.
Professor of Mathematics and Multicultural Education
California State University, Sacramento
Sacramento, California 95819-6079
Tel: 916-278-5531
orey@csus.edu

Ezilda Samoville
Director
Office of International Relations
California Senate
1020 N Street, Room 516
Sacramento, CA 95814
Tel: 916-651-1515
Fax: 916-323-7827
Ezilda.Samoville@sen.ca.gov
www.sen.ca.gov/soir
 

Affonso Jose Santos
Deputy ConsulConsulate General of
Brazil in Los Angeles
8484 Wilshire Blvd
Suite 730
Beverly Hills, CA 90211-3216
Tel: 323.651.4911
Fax: 323.651.1274
asantos@brazilian-consulate.org
www.brazilian-consulate.org

Candace Slater
Director
Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities
220 Stephens Hall, MC 2340
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
Tel: 510-643-9670
Fax: 510.643.5284
cslater@berkeley.edu

Terry Vogt
Member, Board of Directors
Brasil Ecodiesel S.A.
777 Fourth Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118
Tel: 415-867-7145
terry.vogt@gmail.com

Advisors:

Margarise Correa, International Program
Founder, BayBrazil
Silicon Valley Center for International Trade Development
margarise@baybrazil.com

Silvana De Paula, Professor
Graduate Program of Social Sciences, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
depaula@fissionauthority.com 

David P. Earwicker
California State University, Sacramento
david.earwicker@csus.edu

Nathalie Hoffman, Managing Member
The Progressive Energy Policy Group, LLC
nhoffman@nathaliehoffman.com

Mark Langevin, National Organizer
Brazil Strategy Network
MLangevin@afscme.org

Lawrence Lingbloom, Chief Consultant
California State Assembly, Committee on Natural Resources
lawrence.lingbloom@asm.ca.gov

Glauco Magalhaes, President
Brazil-California Chamber of Commerce
Glauco.magalhaes@verizon.net

Eduardo Marx e Silva
Varig Airlines
Eduardo.marx@varig.com

Nelson Pedrozo, President
Brazil-California Business Council
nelson.pedrozo@brazilcaliforniabc.org

Ricardo Tavares, President
TechPolis, Inc.

Márcio Vitorino Vecchi
Senior Economist
Consulate General of Brazil in San Francisco
marciovecchi@brazilsf.org

Lloyd Young
Rotary International
thegoldenwest@cox.net

Honorary Members:

Senator Richard Alarcón (Retired) 
California State Senate

Senator Gil Cedillo
California State Senate

Senator Lou Correa
California State Senate  
 
Senator Denise Ducheny
California State Senate

Senator Liz Figueroa (Retired)
California State Senate

Adam Flores
Undergraduate Legislative Intern
University of California, Berkeley

Senator Sheila Kuehl (Retired) 
California State Senate

His Excellency Georges Lamaziere
Brazilian Ambassador to Denmark
Copenhagen, Denmark

Senator Abel Maldonando (Retired) 
California State Senate

Assemblyman Tim Leslie (Retired)
California State Assembly

Senator Jack Scott (Retired) 
California State Senate

Senator John Vasconcellos(Retired)
The Vasconcellos Project

 

California-Brazil Partnership
1020 N Street, Suite 516 · Sacramento, California 95814
(916) 651-1515 · FAX (916) 323-7827
Email · California- Brazil Partnership


Photo credits: Brazilian Government and the California Department of Tourism