Board of Directors
USAC has a 20-member Board of Directors. Members of the Board of Directors provide leadership and guidance in USAC's administration of universal service.
All meetings of USAC’s Board are open to the public and are held in Washington, DC. The quarterly meeting schedule and the non-quarterly meeting schedule are available along with the minutes from previous board meetings.
USAC’s Board does not make policy or interpret statutes or rules or the intent of Congress, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), or any state or federal agency. Board members do not receive compensation for service on the Board, but are entitled to reimbursement for expenses directly incurred as a result of participation on the USAC Board.
Board Composition
USAC’s Board of Directors represents the universal service stakeholder community.
Three directors represent incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) made up from the following:
- One for Bell Operating Companies (BOCs),
- One for ILECs other than BOCs with annual operating revenues over $40 million, and
- One for ILECs other than BOCs with annual operating revenues less than $40 million.
Two directors represent interexchange carriers (IXCs) (i.e., long distance companies) made up from the following:
- One for IXCs with over $3 billion in annual operating revenues, and
- One for IXCs with less than $3 billion in annual operating revenues.
Three directors represent schools that are eligible to receive discounts.
One director represents libraries that are eligible to receive discounts.
One director represents Tribal Communities.
Two directors represent rural health care providers that are eligible to receive discounts.
Seven directors, each representing one of the following:
- Wireless providers,
- Competitive local exchange carriers,
- Cable operators,
- Information service providers,
- Eligible consumers,
- State telecommunications regulators, and
- State consumer advocates.
USAC’s chief executive officer is also a Board member.
Selection Process for the Board of Directors
USAC’s Board members, excluding the CEO, are appointed for three-year terms. Board members may be reappointed for subsequent terms pursuant to the initial nomination and appointment process described below. If a Board member vacates a seat prior to the completion of the term, USAC must notify the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau and a successor will be chosen pursuant to the nomination and appointment process.
Sixty days before the expiration of a Board member’s term, the industry or non-industry group that is represented by that member nominates, by consensus, a new candidate. The industry or non-industry group submits the name of its nominee, along with relevant professional and biographical information, to the Chairman of the FCC. Only members of the industry or non-industry group that a Board member will represent may submit a nomination for that position.
The Chairman of the FCC reviews the nominations submitted by industry and non-industry groups and selects each member of USAC’s Board. If an industry or non-industry group does not reach consensus on a nominee or fails to submit a nomination for a position on the Board, the Chairman of the FCC can select the representative for the group.
By-laws and Board of Directors Committees
USAC’s corporate by-laws have been adopted by the Board of Directors and establish the rules governing the management of the corporation, such as annual meeting dates, quorum requirements, committees, and officer duties. The current committees of the Board of Directors include:
Officers
Kenneth F. Mason
Chair
Board of Directors
Kenneth F. Mason, Chair
Affiliation: Charleston, SC
Committee(s): Executive High Cost & Low Income
Terms: Through December 31, 2024
Ken Mason was the Vice President, Government and Regulatory Affairs for Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ: FTR). As a result of growth through acquisitions, including Frontier's 2010 transaction with Verizon Communications, Frontier is the fourth largest incumbent telecommunications company in the United States with a focus on serving residents in rural, small towns and cities in the 27 states where they operate. Ken is responsible for directing Frontier's legislative and regulatory activities within the states Frontier operates, as well as assisting in setting Frontier's federal and state policy positions and advocacy objectives. As part of his responsibilities, Ken has been intimately involved in the development and implementation of Universal Service goals and requirements.
Ken has almost 20 years of experience in the wireline and wireless telecommunications industry, and began his career with Frontier in 1996. Over that time he has held positions with increasing responsibility covering a variety of areas in the business. In addition, Ken has played a key role in attaining the required regulatory approvals from state regulatory commissions, as well as the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) during Frontier's recent transactions. He has spoken on numerous industry panel discussions related to intercarrier compensation, Universal Service and rural broadband at the FCC, and at NARUC and other industry conferences.
Ken's experiences have enabled him to develop a wide array of skills in people as well as issue management, negotiations, sales, marketing, government relations and advocacy, development of industry coalitions, budgeting and finance.
Ken holds a bachelor's degree from St. Bonaventure University and a MBA from the State University of New York - Empire State College.
Julie Tritt Schell
Vice Chair
Board of Directors
Julie Tritt Schell, Vice Chair
Affiliation: Pennsylvania E-Rate Coordinator, Mechanicsburg, PA
Committee(s): Executive Schools & Libraries Audit
Terms: Through December 31, 2024
Julie Tritt Schell is the State E-Rate Coordinator for the Pennsylvania Department of Education, a role she’s held since the program’s inception. In addition, she has served as the Co-Chair of the State E-Rate Coordinators’ Alliance (SECA), and Co-Chair of the SHLB E-Rate Group. Previously, Ms. Schell was the Director of the Pennsylvania Office of Educational Technology, where she was responsible for all K-12 and higher education technology policy and funding initiatives. In addition, she negotiated and developed education training partnerships with 3-Com, Cisco and Oracle, coordinated the state telecommunications contract on behalf of schools and libraries, and served on the Governor's Rural Telecommunications Task Force. Ms. Schell began her career in public policy as a member of the government relations staff of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association.
Radha Sekar
Chief Executive Officer
Board of Directors
Radha Sekar, Chief Executive Officer
Affiliation: Universal Service Administrative Company, Washington, DC
Committee(s): Executive High Cost & Low Income Rural Health Care Schools & Libraries
Terms: N/A
Radha Sekar is the Chief Executive Officer. Most recently, Ms. Sekar served as the CFO for both the Farm Service Administration and the Commodity Credit Corporation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), where she oversaw a $30 billion budget in borrowing authority and another credit portfolio of $40 billion.
Ms. Sekar served as the Executive Associate Director for Management and Administration and previously the Chief Financial Officer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from 2010 to 2015. She also served as a Senior Advisor and Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) at the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) from 2007 to 2010.
Previously, Ms. Sekar worked at both IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she actively worked with government agencies, such as the DoD, to reconfigure and improve processes across departments. Ms. Sekar began her career in 1989, at Electronic Data Systems (now a part of HP) on the IT side of finance.
Joan H. Wade, Ed.D.
Treasurer
Board of Directors
Joan H. Wade, Ed.D., Treasurer
Affiliation: Association of Educational Service Agencies, Executive Director, Ripon, WI
Committee(s): Executive Schools & Libraries
Terms: Through December 31, 2026
Joan Wade, Ed.D. is a life-long educator with over 30 years of service in public education. She began serving as the Executive Director for the Association of Educational Service Agencies (AESA), on July 1, 2016.
Dr. Wade began her career as a library media specialist in Montello, Wisconsin. After attending graduate school, she served in various administrative capacities in Wisconsin school districts including as Technology Coordinator for Portage Community School District, and Distance Learning Director for CESA 5.
In 1998, Dr. Wade was elected to the Wisconsin State Assembly served as a State Representative in the Wisconsin State Legislature from 1998 - 2001. She served on the Education, Agriculture and Ways and Means Committees as well as chair of the state's Tourism committee.
Dr. Wade has served as CEO for CESA 6 for 15 years. During her tenure, she led CESA 6 through a visioning and systems design process that resulted in several major initiatives. Among her accomplishments was an in-depth study of the Next Generation of Schools, leading to several new services for CESA 6, including an annual symposium of the best practices in next generation thinking. As a champion of education, Dr. Wade and CESA 6 would host monthly legislative forums for district administrators, board of education members and regional legislators to discuss educational policies and issues.
Dr. Wade is a graduate of UW-Whitewater, received her Masters Degree from UW-Madison and her Doctorate degree from Edgewood College also in Madison, Wisconsin.
She has always been an advocate for the value of regional educational service agencies. She seeks to provide forums for courageous leaders to network and inspires bold solutions to current and future complex challenges facing education. Dr. Wade strives to bring together diverse voices in order to yield effective regional and national networks that produce results for the common good.
Olivia Wein
Secretary
Board of Directors
Olivia Wein, Secretary
Affiliation: National Consumer Law Center, Senior Attorney, Washington, DC
Committee(s): Executive High Cost & Low Income
Terms: Through December 31, 2024
Olivia Wein is an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) focusing on low income consumer access to affordable and reliable telecommunications, energy and utility services. She is co-author of the fifth edition of NCLC's manual Access to Utility Service and co-author of The Rights of Utility Consumers. In addition to her recent appointment to the Universal Service Administrative Company Board of Directors, Ms. Wein serves on the Federal Communication Commission's Consumer Advisory Committee and was active in the recent reform of the federal Lifeline program. She co-chairs the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Coalition. She was an Economic Justice Fellow at Consumers Union prior to her work at NCLC.
Members
Alan Buzacott
Board of Directors
Alan Buzacott
Affiliation: Verizon Communications, Inc., Executive Director, Federal Regulatory Affairs, Washington, D.C.
Committee(s): Schools & Libraries
Terms: Through December 31, 2024
Alan Buzacott is Executive Director, Federal Regulatory Affairs for Verizon Communications, Inc. He represents Verizon before the FCC on a variety of policy matters, including universal service and intercarrier compensation reform.
Mr. Buzacott has almost twenty years of telecommunications industry experience. Since 1996, his responsibilities have included formulating public policy positions on a broad range of major industry issues and advocating those positions to federal and state regulators. In addition, he has represented Verizon in industry coalitions that have developed significant universal service and intercarrier compensation reform proposals.
Over the past decade, Mr. Buzacott has participated in the FCC's most important universal service rulemaking proceedings, including the High Cost program reform and intercarrier compensation reform proceeding that resulted in the creation of the Connect America Fund in 2011; the Lifeline program reform proceeding that led to the 2012 Lifeline Reform Order; and the E-Rate program rulemaking that resulted in the 2013 E-Rate program reform orders. In addition, he has represented Verizon in the FCC's contribution reform proceeding.
Mr. Buzacott received a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1987 and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering/Technology Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990.
Sheba Chacko
Board of Directors
Sheba Chacko
Affiliation: BT in the Americas, Chief Regulatory Counsel, McLean, VA
Committee(s): Audit High Cost & Low Income
Terms: Through December 31, 2026
Sheba Chacko heads up the regulatory function for BT’s operations in the Americas. Prior to joining BT, Sheba practiced communications law with U.S. law firms, advising and assisting fixed telephony, wireless, Internet and satellite clients with their regulatory needs. Sheba has a Juris Doctor degree from Duke Law School, and a Master of Laws degree in International Law from Georgetown University Law Center.
Indra Sehdev Chalk
Board of Directors
Indra Sehdev Chalk
Affiliation: T-Mobile USA, Inc., Director, Federal Regulatory Affairs, Washington, D.C.
Committee(s): High Cost & Low Income Schools & Libraries
Terms: Through December 31, 2025
Indra Sehdev Chalk joined T-Mobile in 2007 and is currently a Director of Federal Regulatory Affairs in its Government Affairs department. Ms. Chalk leads T-Mobile’s advocacy before the Federal Communications Commission on universal service and an ever-evolving set of other consumer issues, including robocalling, messaging, and—most recently—the Emergency Broadband and Affordable Connectivity Plans and as well as the Emergency Connectivity Fund. Ms. Chalk currently serves on the board of the Secure Telephone Identity Governance Authority (STI-GA), the ATIS-managed body helping the industry achieve success in mitigating the problem of unwanted robocalling. Ms. Chalk is a graduate of Stanford University and received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. She is admitted to practice in the state bars of Texas and Washington, D.C.
Dr. Daniel A. Domenech
Board of Directors
Dr. Daniel A. Domenech
Affiliation: Occoquan, VA
Committee(s): Executive Schools & Libraries
Terms: Through December 31, 2025
Daniel A. Domenech has served as executive director of the American Association of School Administrators since July 2008. Domenech has more than 40 years of experience in public education, twenty-seven of those years served as a school superintendent.
Prior to joining AASA, Domenech served as senior vice president for National Urban Markets with McGraw-Hill Education. In this role, he was responsible for building strong relationships with large school districts nationwide.
Prior to his position at McGraw-Hill, Domenech served for seven years as superintendent of the Fairfax County, VA, Public Schools, the 12th largest school system in the nation with 170,000 students.
Domenech began his teaching career in New York City, where he taught sixth grade in a predominantly black and Hispanic community in South Jamaica, Queens. He then became program director for the Nassau Board of Cooperative Educational Services, which is the largest intermediate school district in the State of New York. Following this, he was first named superintendent of schools for Long Island's Deer Park Schools and then became superintendent of schools for the ethnically diverse South Huntington School District, also on Long Island -- a position he held for 13 years. From 1994 to 1997, he was district superintendent of the Second Supervisory District of Suffolk County and chief executive officer of the Western Suffolk BOCES.
Domenech, an AASA member since 1979, served as president of AASA from July 1998 to June 1999. He is also a past president of the New York State Council of School Superintendents, the Suffolk County Superintendents Association, and the Suffolk County Organization for Promotion of Education. He was the first president and cofounder of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education.
In addition, Domenech has served on the U.S. Department of Education's National Assessment Governing Board, on the advisory board for the Department of Defense schools, and on the Board of Overseers for the Baldrige Award. He is currently chair for Communities in Schools of Virginia, the Learning First Alliance, the Educational Research Service and the Board of Visitors for the College of Education at the University of West Georgia. He serves on the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, the National Student Clearinghouse, Americas Promise, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the Sea Research Foundation.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hunter College in New York City and a Ph.D. from Hofstra University in Uniondale, N.Y.
Brent Fontana
Board of Directors
Brent Fontana
Affiliation: Amazon Web Services, Global Principal of Fiber Network Development, Boulder, CO
Committee(s): Audit Rural Health Care Schools & Libraries
Terms: Through December 31, 2024
Brent Fontana is the Global Principal of Fiber Network Development for Amazon Web Services. Previously Mr. Fontana held a variety of leadership positions with the Zayo Group, ultimately as the Director of Network Development & Strategy for the Zayo Group, led Zayo Group's Dark Fiber Construction Services unit working with a variety of state, local federal public sector partners, including k-12 schools, first responders and other public anchor institutions across the country. Mr. Fontana has 18 years of telecommunications industry experience and has served in a variety of product and strategy functions, and previously as product and strategy lead for Zayo's European Business Unit headquartered in London. Prior to Zayo, Mr. Fontana held a variety of leadership roles at Level 3 Communications where he was responsible for wireline access management, M&A integrations, network and infrastructure planning and development. Brent earned his bachelor's degree in Economics from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
Sarah Freeman
Board of Directors
Sarah Freeman
Affiliation: Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, Commissioner, Indianapolis, IN
Committee(s): High Cost & Low Income Rural Health Care
Terms: Through December 31, 2024
Sarah Freeman was appointed by Governor Mike Pence as Commissioner on September 19, 2016, and was most recently reappointed by Governor Eric Holcomb on December 20, 2021. Commissioner Freeman sits on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), is a member of the NARUC Committee on Telecommunications, and chairs its Subcommittee on Education and Research. She serves on the Board of Directors for the Universal Service Administrative Company, chairs the MISO Advisory Committee, and is a member of the EPRI Advisory Council. Freeman is also Vice President of the Mid-American Regulatory Conference and serves on the Board of Directors of the Organization of MISO States.
Prior to her appointment, Commissioner Freeman served as a senior staff attorney with the nonpartisan Indiana Legislative Services Agency, where she drafted utility and transportation legislation and served as counsel to numerous legislative committees.
A native Hoosier, Commissioner Freeman earned her undergraduate degrees in psychology, French, and political science from Indiana University – Bloomington and her juris doctor degree from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.
Amber Gregory
Board of Directors
Amber Gregory
Affiliation: Arkansas State Library, Manager of E-Rate Services, Little Rock, AR
Committee(s): Audit Schools & Libraries
Terms: Through December 31, 2025
Amber Gregory has worked with the E-Rate program since 2010 as the Manager of E-Rate Services at the Arkansas State Library. In this role, she helps public libraries navigate the E-Rate program to ensure that library bandwidth supports community needs. In addition, Ms. Gregory chairs the American Library Association’s E-Rate Task Force, on which she has served since 2014. At the Arkansas State Library, Ms. Gregory is a member of the Library Development department, where she manages statewide projects relating to broadband access and adoption, technology planning, and digital inclusion. Ms. Gregory holds a Master of Science in Information Science from the University of Tennessee and a bachelor’s degree in Art History from Colorado State University.
Stephanie Polk
Board of Directors
Stephanie Polk
Affiliation: Lumen Technologies, Senior Vice President of Customer Success and Advocacy, Monroe, LA
Committee(s): Audit High Cost & Low Income
Terms: Through December 31, 2025
Stephanie Polk is CenturyLink’s Vice President of Customer Advocacy. She is responsible for the Customer Advocacy Groups and serves as a champion for customers across all of CenturyLink’s businesses. CenturyLink is a Fortune 200 telecommunications company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana. Her role highlights CenturyLink’s commitment to their customers and improving the customer experience. She has responsibilities for resolving customer complaints, social media support, analytics and process alignment.
Previous to this role, Stephanie has over twenty years of experience with CenturyLink. She has held various leadership roles within Customer Service, Marketing, and IT. Her accomplishments include leading the Level3, Qwest and Embarq business processes and systems integration. She has experience as a technology leader with over ten years in senior leadership roles managing teams of up to 1,000 internal and external technical professionals. She started her career in software development and progressed through systems architecture, training, operational readiness, product development, vendor management, and IT program and solution management roles.
System consolidation and integration have been a large part of her roles in the past nine years. The largest effort reduced 2,500 disparate systems to 1,800 and outsourced 45% of those systems to a leading IT solutions provider. She was also responsible for the management and oversight of an $800M application development and maintenance portfolio that served 17M customers in a 37-state territory.
Stephanie holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from University of Louisiana at Monroe and a MBA from Louisiana Tech University. In her personal life, she is passionate about her local community. Stephanie is an active member of the University of Louisiana at Monroe Foundation Board of Trustees and previously served on the YMCA of Northeast Louisiana Board of Directors for eight years and as President for two. She resides in Monroe, Louisiana with her husband and two children.
Christine Sanquist
Board of Directors
Christine Sanquist
Affiliation: Charter Communications, Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, Washington, DC
Committee(s): Schools & Libraries
Terms: Through December 31, 2025
Christine Sanquist is Vice President, Regulatory Affairs at Charter Communications. Christine handles the company’s advocacy before the Federal Communications Commission and other regulatory agencies on a wide range of broadband and voice issues, including all Universal Service Fund programs. Prior to joining Charter, Christine was an associate attorney in the Communications, Internet and Technology practice group at Jenner & Block LLP. Before entering private practice, Christine was an Honors Attorney at the FCC in the Pricing Policy Division of the Wireline Competition Bureau.
Christine received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and her B.A. in Economics and Government & Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Kara Semmler
Board of Directors
Kara Semmler
Affiliation: South Dakota Telecommunications Association, Executive Director and General Counsel, Pierre, SD
Committee(s): High Cost & Low Income Rural Health Care
Terms: Through December 31, 2026
Kara Semmler serves as General Counsel and Executive Director of the South Dakota Telecommunications Association (SDTA). SDTA's membership is comprised of South Dakota's cooperative, small commercial, municipal and tribal telecommunications companies. These companies provide broadband, telephone and video services to approximately three-quarters of South Dakota's land mass. Kara represents SDTA membership before the SD Public Utilities Commission, other state agencies, the state legislature, and the FCC.
Kara received a BA in business administration from Carthage College in Kenosha, WI and went on to obtain her law degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. Kara then moved home to South Dakota to practice law. In addition to nearly a decade of private practice legal experience, she served as an attorney at the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission and as a Policy Advisor to Governor Kristi Noem. Kara currently serves on the NTCA Legal Committee and the Industry and Regulatory Policy Committee.
Kara and her husband Aaron have one son. They live in Pierre, SD and enjoy outdoor adventures so readily available in Central South Dakota.
Angela Siefer
Board of Directors
Angela Siefer
Affiliation: National Digital Inclusion Alliance, Founder & Director, Columbus, OH
Committee(s): High Cost & Low Income
Terms: Through December 31, 2026
Angela founded the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) in 2015. Since 1997, she has been working in digital inclusion – she helped set up computer labs and digital inclusion programs in underserved areas, managed broadband conferences, conducted research, built a nationwide digital equity ecosystem, and testified multiple times before Congress. As the executive director of NDIA, Angela leads the digital inclusion movement and community of 1,500 affiliate organizations in 50 states, DC, and territories. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Schools, Health, & Libraries Broadband Coalition. Government Technology Magazine named Angela in their “Top 25 Doers, Dreams, and Drivers” of 2019, and she received the United Church of Christ’s Parker Award in 2021. Google.org named Angela one of seven global “Leaders to Watch'' in 2023.
Michael Skrivan
Board of Directors
Michael Skrivan
Affiliation: Falmouth, ME
Committee(s): High Cost & Low Income Rural Health Care
Terms: Through December 31, 2023
Currently retired, Mr. Skrivan was Vice President Regulatory at Consolidated Communications and responsible for the company’s participation in Connect America Fund programs and related obligations.
Mr. Skrivan has extensive experience in both telecommunications and information technology, having worked for Ernst & Young’s Telecom Consulting Group, Madison River Communications, and FairPoint Communications. He has accumulated widespread knowledge encompassing telecom industry accounting, cost allocations, NECA pooling mechanisms, access charges, USAC reporting, revenue requirements and tariffs, as well as federal regulation as it applies to both price cap and rate-of-return regulated ILECs. Mr. Skrivan also taught separations courses, including presenting to the Separations Joint Board, and has conducted tutorials on regulatory cost issues.
Mr. Skrivan is a Certified Public Accountant - Inactive and a Certified Management Accountant with Bachelor’s Degrees in Business and Accounting. He and his wife have three children and four grandchildren. He is active in his church and enjoys riding his motorcycle, video games and landscaping.
Mona Thompson
Board of Directors
Mona Thompson
Affiliation: Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Telephone Authority, General Manager, Eagle Butte, SD
Committee(s): Schools & Libraries Rural Health Care
Terms: Through December 31, 2026
Mona L. Thompson is an enrolled member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and has lived most of her life on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation. Mona left home to pursue her higher education in Oklahoma and obtained her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 1987. She returned home and worked for the Office of Indian Education Programs as a Business Manager until 1992, at which time she left home again to pursue her MBA degree at Colorado State University and achieved this in 1994. Upon her return home, she resumed the Business Manager position until she joined the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Telephone Authority (CRSTTA) team as the Marketing/Economic Development Specialist. Mona was promoted to the Assistant General Manager position at CRSTTA in 2002 and was selected as the General Manager in 2012. Mona will retire in February 2024, but desires to stay involved in the telecommunications Industry and advocate for Tribal Nations across the country. Mona enjoys spending time with family and her pets, traveling, enjoying the outdoors, reading, and listening to music.
Jeffery J. Waller
Board of Directors
Jeffery J. Waller
Affiliation: State of Alaska, Office of the Attorney General Regulatory Affairs & Public Advocacy Section, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Section Supervisor, Anchorage, AK
Committee(s): High Cost & Low Income Rural Health Care
Terms: Through December 31, 2025
Jeff Waller is the Chief Assistant Attorney General for the Regulatory Affairs & Public Advocacy Section (RAPA) of the Alaska Office of the Attorney General. Pursuant to state statute, RAPA appears before the Regulatory Commission of Alaska when the attorney general determines that participation is in the public interest. Since Mr. Waller joined RAPA in 2012 he has been the attorney responsible for all telecommunication-related dockets. Prior to moving to Alaska, Mr. Waller’s legal work included being outside counsel for electric, water, and wastewater utilities in the South Pacific.
Dr. Katharine Hsu Wibberly
Board of Directors
Dr. Katharine Hsu Wibberly
Affiliation: University of Virginia Center for Telehealth, Director, Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center, Charlottesville, VA
Committee(s): Executive Rural Health Care
Terms: Through December 31, 2026
Kathy is Director of the Mid-Atlantic Telehealth Resource Center (MATRC). MATRC was established in September 2011 with the mission of providing technical support and other resources to Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington DC in order to advance the adoption and utilization of telehealth within the MATRC region. Kathy is an Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Virginia School Of Medicine, faculty member at the Healthy Appalachia Institute and adjunct faculty member in the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs at VCU where she has been teaching an online graduate level Research Methods course since 2008.
Just prior to her position with the MATRC, Kathy was Director of the Division of Primary Care and Rural Health in the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (OMHHE). The OMHHE serves as the State Office of Rural Health, Primary Care Office and Office of Minority Health for Virginia. Kathy's public service career reflects over twenty years of experience in public health, public policy, program development, program evaluation and strategic planning at the federal, state and local government levels. Kathy has had a successful history with grants that includes identifying, reviewing, writing and managing over $13 million of grant funded programs and services in the past six years. Kathy also serves on the Boards of several local, State and national organizations.
Kathy received her B.A. in Psychology with minors in pre-medicine and youth services from Gordon College in Wenham, MA. She went on to receive her M.S. and Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in Richmond, VA. Her specialization was in Group Interventions. Areas of particular interest include family, cultural, and religious issues in preventive health. Kathy also has a Certificate from the Management Academy for Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill.