Joanne Salas

Joanne has served in administrative support roles at executive levels, always with some facet of managerial accountability, since the early age of 15. Her natural ability to lead others to accomplish goals has been evident throughout her 45-years of experience, with mastery in customer service, administrative support and staff development. She earned an associates degree in general studies, and bachelors and masters degrees in business administration. She has experience in all facets of business, including not-for-profit disaster operations, corporate-level banking and service organizations, and government public education where she has 20 years as a tenured college professor in business technology, teaching accounting, business, administrative office support, customer service, management development, and applied technologies and automation. She has led church and community projects to feed the homeless, clean up and beautify the environment, and collected over 1,500 books of multiple disciplines to establish a homeless kitchen library.