Wassy Tesfa


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Wassy Tesfa, Executive Director of Pacific Clinics Head Start in Los Angeles, California. Ms. Tesfa is the longest standing Chair of the Head Start WEST. Under her leadership, Head Start WEST has grown from a voluntary lead organization with one annual event, to a high impact community resource, staffed by three professionals, and touching over 5000 individuals this past program year. In collaboration with her colleagues on the Board as well as national consultants and advisors, Wassy has steered Head Start WEST to be a force of change and innovation.

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