MESA Staff

Colorado MESA is one of eight states in the nation that make up the MESA USA organization that encourages economically disadvantaged, minority and female students to prepare themselves for a college education and to major in math, engineering or science. MESA members include:

Arizona








Lori Tochihara
Executive Director
Arizona MESA
P.O. Box 210158
Tucson, AZ 85721-0158
(520) 626-2300
(520) 626-2307 - fax
lorit@arizona.edu
http://azmesa.arizona.edu/
California








Oscar F. Porter, Ph.D.
Executive Director
MESA USA
300 Lakeside Drive, 7th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 987-9138
(510) 763-4704 - fax
oscar.porter@ucop.edu
www.mesa.ucop.edu
Maryland








Paula Shelton
Executive Director
Maryland MESA
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Laurel, MD 20723-6099
(443) 778-5382
(443) 778-6139 - fax
paula.shelton@jhuapll.edu
www.jhuapl.edu/mesa/home/default.asp
New Mexico








Toney Begay
Executive Director
New Mexico MESA
2808 Central Ave., SE #122
Albuquerque, NM 87106
(505) 366-2500
(505) 366-2529 - fax
tbegay@nmmesa.org
http://nmmesa.org
Oregon








David Coronado
Executive Director
Oregon MESA
P.O. Box 751
Portland, OR 97207-0751
(503) 725-4268
(503) 725-4680 � fax
davidc@cecs.pdx.edu
www.mesa.pdx.edu
Utah









Kenneth Lee Petersen, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Utah MESA/STEP Consortium
University of Utah, Kennecott Bldg.
100 South 1495 East, #126
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
(801) 585-3135
(801) 585-7402 - fax
ken.petersen@utah.edu
www.ed.utah.edu/mesa
Washington








James Dorsey
Executive Director
Washington MESA
Box 352181, UW
Seattle, WA 98195-2181
(206) 543-0564
(206) 685-0666 - fax
jbdorsey@engr.washington.edu
www.washingtonmesa.org

MESA USA provides an opportunity for its members to share and expand strategies that work. It also allows the MESA programs to share resources and provide industry sponsors with the highest return on their investment. Pilot MESA pre-college programs have been established in Missouri, Nevada and New York. For more information on MESA USA, please visit their website by clicking here.