LEP Leadership Team
The LEP Leadership Team provides executive oversight on all aspects of the County’s language access work. It is made of County government officials with expertise and experience in areas critical to the overall improvement and long-term success of the County’s language access work to the LEP populations.
- Diane Vu - Office of Community Partnerships - Language Access Coordinator
- Lily Qi – Offices of the County Executive
- Donna Bigler - Public Information Office
- Molly Callaway - Volunteer Center Language Bank
- Shelley Janashek - Environmental Protection
- Betty Lam - Health and Human Services
- Luis Martinez - Health and Human Services
- Michael Wahl - Police
- Joe Heiney-Gonzalez - Human Resources
- Anita Brady - Human Resources
- James Stowe - Human Rights
- Richard Bingham - Commission for Women
- Art Wallenstein - Correction and Rehabilitation
Department Liaisons
The Department Liaisons are designated staff members by the department directors to ensure each department's compliance with the federal guidelines and County policy on language access for persons with LEP. Key responsibilities of the Department Liaison include developing a written plan for the department, ensuring proper staff training, communicating to the management and staff about language access expectations and measurements, assessing the department's capacity in providing language assistance, collecting applicable LEP data, and reporting work progress and issues related to serving the LEP population.
- Vacant - Commission for Women (CFW)
- Vacant - Community Use of Public Facilities (CUPF)
- Lorena Bailey - Consumer Protection
- Arthur Wallenstein - Correction and Rehabilitation (DOCR)
- Erin Ashbarry - County Attorney’s Office (OCA)
- Lily Qi - County Executives Offices
- Eric Friedman - Economic Development
- Nancy Frechette - Environmental Protection (DEP)
- Phavann Chhuan - Finance (FIN)
- Leslie A. Maxam - Fire/Rescue Service (FRS)
- Judy Davis - General Services
- Betty Lam - Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Myriam Torrico - Housing and Community Affairs (DHCA)
- Joe Heiney-Gonzalez - Human Resources (OHR)
- Anis Ahmed - Human Rights (HRC)
- Wanda Wells - Intergovernmental Relations (IGR)
- Lynn Duncan - Liquor Control (DLC)
- Amy Wilson - Management and Budget Office (OMB)
- Ylda Munoz - MC311
- Melissa Smith - Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security
- Reginald Jetter - Permitting Services
- Michael Wahl - Police
- Esther Bowring - Public Information Office (PIO)
- Clotilde Puertolas - Public Libraries (LIB)
- Elizabeth Ortega-Lohmeyer - Recreation
- Ken Hartman – Regional Service Center – Bethesda
- Jewru Bandeh - Regional Service Center - Eastern
- Ana Lopez van Balen – Regional Services Center – Mid-County
- Reemberto Rodriguez - Regional Services Center - Silver Spring
- Cathy Matthews - Regional Services Center – Upcounty
- Peris Rowell-Hann - Technology Services (DTS)
- Margaret Boumel - Transportation
