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Misha Houser is a disabilities advocate and wheelchair user. She has been involved in the founding of two nonprofits, serving as CEO and COO. Houser’s experience includes serving as a public affairs consultant, communications director, and political consultant. Her background includes grants management, fund development, brand management, and connecting communities of interest.

She currently serves as Development Manager for an education nonprofit focused on providing career and college exploration and skills training to middle and high school students. You can find Misha on the ice participating in wheelchair curling in her spare time.

As Associate Vice President, Government and Community Relations representing Cal State Fullerton, Elva provides collaborative leadership in establishing and maintaining strategic relationships with elected officials, government agencies and nonprofit/community/business organizations to advance the University’s educational mission and its role as an intellectual and cultural center. In this role, she leads a team that promotes broad-based advocacy at the local, regional, state and federal level to support partnerships, grow funding streams and demonstrate the University’s integral role and impact on the region. 

Prior to joining Cal State Fullerton, Elva spent 10 years at the Disneyland Resort as part of the Public Affairs senior management team where she and her teams were focused on maintaining and enhancing the reputation of the Resort, developing and implementing corporate citizenship, issues management, and communications strategies ensuring mutual benefit for the community and the Resort. 

Her broad-based experience includes serving as the executive director of the Luevano Foundation as well as representing Southern California Edison as a Government Relations Region Manager in both Orange County and the Inland Empire. Elva currently serves on the boards of the OC Forum and the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Orange County as Chair-Elect. She has also previously served on the boards of Taller San Jose Hope Builders, the National Hispanic Business Women’s Association, and the advisory boards of the American Indian Chamber of Commerce and the Vietnamese American Chamber of Commerce of Orange County. Elva has been recognized as a “Persona Notable” in Para Todos Magazine, as Corporate Advocate of the Year by the Asian Business Association of Orange County and as Corporate Woman of the Year by the NHBWA.

Elva and her husband reside in Yorba Linda and are the proud parents of a son and two daughters.

Lydia McGee is the Principal Public Affairs Representative with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. Through the Business Outreach program, she works to promote business and economic development in the area of contracting opportunities for regional, small, and disabled veteran businesses. This program represents a current reinvestment of more than $1 billion in small businesses. As the regional, small and disabled veteran business program outreach representative, she is charged with identifying and vetting businesses that are positioned and seeking to do business with the Metropolitan Water District.

Lydia oversees Metropolitan’s training, coaching, and mentoring programs for Small Business Enterprises, Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises, along with hosting and participating in various training workshops. Lydia hosts Business Outreach’s signature event Connect-2-Met and/or Connect-2-Vet twice a year. Lydia represents MWD in industry groups, professional organizations and supplier diversity advocacy groups, demonstrating MWD’s commitment to partner with and assist in the development of small business capacity building.

Jaymee Lomax is The Vice President of WBEC-West. WBEC-West is a regional partner of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), a coalition of corporations, Women Business Enterprises and regionally focused women’s business organizations. As an affiliate organization, WBEC-West implements the certification standards of WBENC throughout Arizona, Colorado, Southern California, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam.

WBENC certification is nationally recognized and accepted by more than 10,000 major corporations. We also support corporations in their efforts to include WBENC Certified WBEs in their supplier diversity programs. Previously before taking on her new role Jaymee was the Senior Diversity Advisor for San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E), a Sempra Energy utility. SDG&E is a regulated public utility that provides safe and reliable energy service to 3.4 million consumers through 1.4 million electric meters and more than 860,000 natural gas meters in San Diego and Orange counties. The utility’s service area spans 4,100 square miles.

Jaymee is committed to Supplier Diversity and is very proud to be a part of the WBEC-West team. Jaymee is responsible for impacting women – owned business in the community through education, networking, and community development. Enhancing Corporation and WBEs relationships, outreach programs and creating business opportunities for WBEs.

Jaymee has shared her expertise and knowledge with the community by serving on Executive Boards and committees for several diverse organizations Jaymee is an award-winning diversity professional who has received numerous awards and nominations in recognition of her support in the diversity arena.

Alexander Kim is Founder & Principal of Three Kings Public Affairs, a government, business & community affairs consulting company helping with clients (ie. Korean Community Services, The Irvine Company, etc.) with accessing the government and providing outreach to community leaders in the Southern California region. He also is Co-Principal of Windfall Strategics LLC specializing in business/marketing consulting for domestic & international businesses.

He has over 20 years of experience in government affairs serving as Central Area Director for City of Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn, Deputy Director to State of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Senior Adviser to City of L.A. Councilmember David Ryu, Public Affairs/Community Manager of SoCalGas (a Sempra Energy utility), & most recently as District Director to State of California Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris representing the beach cities of South Orange County.

Alexander has served on several State of California commissions to represent the public (Board of Optometry Board, Board of Naturopathic Medicine Committee, & Board of Behavioral Sciences). He currently serves on the government committees for the Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer’s Korean-American Advisory Board & the Orange County Transportation Agency (OCTA) Diverse Community Leaders Committee.

In the community, he serves on the boards for: Titan Institute (an Education Tech non-profit for underserved community), PBS SoCal/KCET Community Advisory Board, Asian Business Association of Orange Co. (ABAOC), Orange County Asian Pacific Islander Community Alliance (OCAPICA), Korean American Coalition of Los Angeles (Advisory Board), Vietnamese American Chamber of Commerce in Orange County, and the Asian Pacific American Public Affairs Association – Orange County Chapter (APAPA-OC).

Alexander strongly supports our nation’s military and America’s veterans. In 2011, the United States Navy honored him as a “Key Influencer” to fly in a Boeing FA-18 Hornet with the Blue Angels as a reward for helping successfully recruit numerous diverse candidates to their Naval Officer program. He also helped lead the Veterans initiative at SoCalGas to help recruit, retain, and involve veterans to help other veterans in the Southern California region.

Alexander graduated with a MBA from Pepperdine University and is a frequent guest lecturer on government/public affairs. He is a Network of Korean Americans (NetKAL) Fellow at the University of Southern California (USC) School of Social Work. Alexander obtained a B.S. in Biology/Minor in Political Science at U.C. Irvine where he co-founded the University of California at Irvine (UCI) Korean American Alumni Chapter as its first president and remains active as an alumni in the Anteater community.