CHILDREN’S CAUCUS of the California Democratic party

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CADEM Children's Caucus Officers

Ann Crosbie, Chair Emerita

Ann Crosbie, Chair Emerita

Ann Crosbie, Chair Emerita

Ann Crosbie (She/Her/Ms) is an education advocate and campaign consultant specializing in school board and community college elections. 


Ann has served as a K12 school board trustee and a community college trustee, as well as past chair of the CDP Children’s Caucus. Ann now serves as our Southern California Vice Chair.

Sara Roos, Chair

Ann Crosbie, Chair Emerita

Ann Crosbie, Chair Emerita

Sara Roos is a biostatistician and politically engaged parent, whose experience shepherding kids through their own education sensitized her to the microcosm of politics that is Education.

For over a dozen years she has written about education and Party politics through a data-analytics lens, following money and empiricism to try to wrest sense of the huge systems that govern us.

Matthew Hilliard, Northern CA Vice Chair

Matthew Hilliard, Northern CA Vice Chair

Matthew Hilliard, Northern CA Vice Chair

Bio coming...

Wade Kyle, Southern CA Vice Chair

Matthew Hilliard, Northern CA Vice Chair

Matthew Hilliard, Northern CA Vice Chair

Bio coming...

Tiffany Sickler, Treasurer

Tiffany Sickler, Treasurer

Tiffany Sickler, Treasurer

Tiffany Sickler is a  licensed clinical psychologist and the Executive Director of Koinonia  Family Services, a private nonprofit foster family, adoption and mental  health services agency, operating throughout California  and Nevada.


She also serves on the board of the California Alliance of Child and Family Services.


Tiffany brings her li

Tiffany Sickler is a  licensed clinical psychologist and the Executive Director of Koinonia  Family Services, a private nonprofit foster family, adoption and mental  health services agency, operating throughout California  and Nevada.


She also serves on the board of the California Alliance of Child and Family Services.


Tiffany brings her lived experience of having been a  youth who grew up in residential care as well as her experience as a  foster parent of 15 years/15 children and adoptive parent to two (then  teen) sisters.

Aba Ngissah, Secretary

Tiffany Sickler, Treasurer

Tiffany Sickler, Treasurer

Bio coming...

CademCC Communications Team

Liz Kane

Ahmanise Sanati

Ahmanise Sanati

Bio coming...

Ahmanise Sanati

Ahmanise Sanati

Ahmanise Sanati

Ahmanise is a Counselor in LAUSD serving students affected by homelessness, foster care, and the juvenile justice system. Prior to working in schools, Ahmanise established the foundation of her career in the LA County Jail system’s mental health department at Twin Towers Correctional Facility. Ahmanise also founded and continues to lead t

Ahmanise is a Counselor in LAUSD serving students affected by homelessness, foster care, and the juvenile justice system. Prior to working in schools, Ahmanise established the foundation of her career in the LA County Jail system’s mental health department at Twin Towers Correctional Facility. Ahmanise also founded and continues to lead the movement to establish a library system in the jails, in an effort to ensure all incarcerated people in LA County Jail system have reliable access to books. Ahmanise is currently a CADEM E-Board Delegate (AD 61), the NASW-CA Region H Director, and co-founder of Westside Activists, a community organization rooted in social justice in the west LA region, where she lives with her husband and two children. 

Nelson Tam

Ahmanise Sanati

Nelson Tam

Bio coming...

CademCC Elections Committee

Koreen Cea, Elections Chair

Koreen Cea, Elections Chair

Koreen Cea, Elections Chair

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Gregg Skolkovitz

Koreen Cea, Elections Chair

Koreen Cea, Elections Chair

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Ayde Bravo

Koreen Cea, Elections Chair

Ayde Bravo

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Wade Kyle

Tracy Cook / Angela Der Ramo

Tracy Cook / Angela Der Ramo

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Tracy Cook / Angela Der Ramo

Tracy Cook / Angela Der Ramo

Tracy Cook / Angela Der Ramo



Bio coming...

CDP Children's Caucus

Leadership


Chair:  Sara Roos,  chair.cademcc@gmail.com
Vice-Chair Northern CA:  Matthew Hilliard,  nocal.cademcc@gmail.com
Vice-Chair Southern CA:  Wade Kyle,  socal.cademcc@gmail.com
Secretary:  Aba Ngissah
Treasurer:  Tiffany Sickler

Communications Team:  Nelson Tam, Ann Crosbie, Ahmanise Sanati

Operations:  Liz Kane, James Moffat, Sam Davis, Vinita Verma

Networking Coordinator:  Genice Jacobs

Elections:  Koreen Cea

Chair Emerita:  Ann Crosbie


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JoinUS, the Children's Caucus of the CA Democratic Party

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for CademCC's next regular, caucus membership meeting


Federal Impacts on Policy and the Political Landscape for California's Families and Children


Fall 2025 Executive Board meeting in Monterey, CA

Tuesday, 10/21/25 @ 7 pm on Zoom 


¡Register early please!  https://tinyurl.com/MontEbrd


Then ... JoinUS! in-person for a joint networking-Social with the Children's, Black and Senior caucuses:


  Friday, 10/24/25 @ 8:15 pm, Monterey Hyatt


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