Roberta “Bobbi” Cordano is Gallaudet University’s current President and the first deaf female president. Cordano is a non-profit executive, former Minnesota assistant attorney general and the co-founder of Metro Deaf School, a bilingual bicultural charter school for deaf and heard of hearing children. Cordano previously served as the vice president of programs for the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She overseen direct community-based programs for nearly 9,500 people in the areas of early childhood, community mental health, family supportive housing, aging and caregiver services, school reform, and food access. She is widely credited for managing and sustaining programs in a highly volatile revenue environment, providing community leadership, fostering innovation, strengthening and supporting diversity within the workforce, and structuring services for optimal alignment and collaboration.Cordano has held several leadership roles in different sectors, including health care; higher education as assistant dean for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota; and in government as an assistant attorney general for the State of Minnesota.
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