Meets second and fourth Wednesdays, 2 pm
Charge
Committee within PGS
The Guidance, Resources, Integration, and Transformation (GRIT) Committee operates in collaboration with PRAC and the Academic Senate to support College of Marin's commitment to providing equitable opportunities and fostering success for all members of our diverse community. GRIT reviews institutional plans, program reviews, and data to ensure that antiracist practices, equity, and access are embedded in all plans and programs and that resources and efforts support overall student success.
Specific responsibilities include:
- Review and assess the integration of internal and external research and promising antiracist and equity practices across programs with regard to student access, retention, success, and completion.
- Identify, promote, and disseminate information on exemplary programs and effective instructional practices that address learning, innovative online tools and modalities, antiracism, antiblackness, and that best serve historically underrepresented community college students, including credit and noncredit ESL students.
- Assess and respond to the impact of state and/or national emergencies and systemic racism on student access, retention, success, and completion.
- Support faculty and staff professional development and innovative instructional strategies aligned with effective learning and teaching, antiracism, and dismantling antiblackness.
- Provide progress reports in accordance with the Chancellor’s Office guidelines to local and statewide stakeholders.
Composition
- Minimum 4 Faculty appointed by the Academic Senate
- Minimum 4 Classified Professionals appointed by the Classified Professional Liaison Committee (CPLC)
- Minimum 2 Administrators appointed by the Superintendent/President
- Minimum 2 Students appointed by Associated Students of College of Marin (ASCOM)
The GRIT Committee make-up will be members who represent the following:
- Math (Faculty)
- English Skills (Faculty)
- ESL (Faculty)
- Counseling/Learning Communities (Faculty)
- Administrative Dean
- PRIE
- Students
- EOPS
- Equity Coordinator/Student Activities and Advocacy
- Student Accessibility Services
- Outreach
- Veterans
- Enrollment Services
- CTE/Strong Workforce
2026-2027 Members
Chair
Stormy Miller Sabia, Associate Vice President of Counseling and Student Services - appointed Fall 2026
Faculty
Alexander Jones, Faculty, Work Experience - appointed Fall 2025
Carl Freschl, Counselor, Student Accessibility Services - appointed Spring 2023
Kjit Laff, Faculty, Early Childhood Education - appointed Fall 2026
Vacant
Classified Professionals
Melanie Palomino, Instructional Success - appointed Fall 2025
Soma Srinivasan, Planning, Research and Institutional Effectiveness - appointed Fall 2025
Ephantus Mogere, Student Accessibility Services - appointed Spring 2026
Mariah Ashby, Umoja - appointed Fall 2026
Students
Marc Sirawit- appointed Spring 2026
Administrators
Jon Horinek, Enrollment Management - appointed Spring 2025
Stormy Miller Sabia, Associate Vice President of Counseling and Student Services - appointed Fall 2026
Staff Resources
Aimee Carrillo, EOPS & Student Support Programs
Holley Shafer, Planning, Research, and Institutional Effectiveness
Sadika Sulaiman Hara, Student Activities & Advocacy
Cari Torres Benavides, Instructional Management
Updated 02-04-2026