Adult Learner Working Group Overview

Focused on employer/educator partnerships and educational pathways for adult learners

Adult Learner Updates

Meeting Summaries: Coming January 2025

Working Group Members

Co-Leads:

  • Patrick Buesching, Don Wood Foundation

  • Allyn Decker, Ph.D., OrthoWorx

  • Kim Tempel, Northeast Indiana Works

Members:

  • Richard Beck, Allen County Board of Commissioners

  • Melissa Carpenter, Freedom Academy

  • Vicki Cook, 80/20

  • Steve Corona, Latinos Count

  • Tracy Davis, Ivy Tech Community College

  • Meg Distler, St. Joe Community Health Foundation

  • Melinda Haines, The Literacy Alliance

  • Paula Hughes-Schuh, YWCA

  • Cynthia Johnson, Learn More Center

  • Gretchen Miller, Trine University

  • Lisa Mungovan, Mungovan HR Consulting LLC

  • Katie Parrish, Ph.D., Indiana Tech

  • Jon Sampson, Indiana Wesleyan University

  • Pone Vongphachanh, City of New Haven

Many more community leaders are contributing to working groups as CAPET members.

Working Group Contributors