DALE SHIMASAKI Ph.D., is Chief Executive Officer of
Strategic Education Services (SES), a Sacramento
based government relations and policy consulting
firm.
Dr. Shimasaki
has approximately thirty years experience in state,
federal and local education and budget policy shaping
roles. In the California Legislature, Dr. Shimasaki
served for three years in the Office of the Legislative
Analyst, two years as Principal Consultant for the
Assembly Budget Committee and six years as Chief Consultant
for Educational Policy and Finance for Speaker of
the Assembly Willie L. Brown Jr.
From 1992 through
1996 Dr. Shimasaki served as Director of Research and
Director of Governmental Relations for the City College
of San Francisco. Before assuming his responsibilities
at SES, Dr. Shimasaki served for two and a half years
as Executive Director of the Civil Liberties Public
Education Fund, a federal board appointed by the President
of the United States to educate the public on the lessons
learned from the incarceration of Japanese Americans
during World War II.
Dr. Shimasaki
has held numerous research and special studies posts
during his professional career including service as
advisor and researcher for the Congressional Budget
Office, the Urban Institute, and the Chancellor's
Budget and Program Review Committee at the University
of California. His teaching experience includes positions
as Instructor at the University of California at Berkeley,
San Francisco State University and City College of
San Francisco.
Coupled
with his academic and legislative experience, Dr. Shimasaki
also holds a certificate in personal financial planning
from UC Davis, and has authored numerous reports
and academic papers on education policy and finance
including "The Implementation
of Voter Approved Entitlement for K-12 Education:
Budgetary Responses to Proposition 98" and "Sources
of Growth in Local Government Employment: California
1964-1978," published
in The American Economic Review.
Dr. Shimasaki currently serves on the Board of the
Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus Institute
and is a member of the California Civil Liberties Education
Program Advisory Committee. He served as the
founding President of Asian and Pacific Americans in
Higher Education (APAHE) for five years.
Dr. Shimasaki
received his BA in Economics from the University
of California, Berkeley and was awarded a Master of
Public Policy degree from the UC Berkeley School of
Public Policy in 1978. In 1994 he received his Ph.D.
in Education Administration from the UC Berkeley School
of Education.
email: dfs@strategicadvocates.com |
