WIOA Required Partners

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) requires a coordinated approach to workforce development through partnerships among key service providers. These partners collaborate through the American Job Center (AJC) network to streamline access to resources, eliminate duplication, and support job seekers and employers more effectively.

  • Kirsten Running-Marquardt
    Linn County

  • Tim Carson
    Executive Director

    Ashley Ferguson
    ECIWDB Board Chair

  • Kirkwood Community College
    Jes Merino
    Director of Skills to Employment

    Website

    Member of the East Central Iowa Core Partner Team, lead MOU negotiators 

  • Kirkwood Community College
    Jes Merino
    Director of Skills to Employment

    Website

    Member of the East Central Iowa Core Partner Team, lead MOU negotiators Item description

  • Kirkwood Community College
    Jes Merino
    Director of Skills to Employment

    Website

    Member of the East Central Iowa Core Partner Team, lead MOU negotiators 

  • Not applicable for East Central Iowa

  • Local Negotiator
    Kirkwood Community College
    Stephanie Hasakis Flaucher
    Director of Adult Education and Literacy

    High School Completion Website
    English Language and Literacy Website

    Signatory
    Kyle Clabby-Kane
    State Director of Adult Education

    Member of the East Central Iowa Core Partner Team, lead MOU negotiators 

  • Local Negotiators
    Matt Auliff
    Operations Manager, Cedar Rapids

    Kevin Swartzendruber
    Operations Manager, Iowa City

    Website

    Signatory
    Iowa Workforce Development
    Linda Rouse
    AJC Division Administrator

    Member of the East Central Iowa Core Partner Team, lead MOU negotiators 

  • Local Negotiators
    Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation
    Holly Mateer
    Rehabilitation Supervisor, Cedar Rapids

    Website

    Monica Brockway
    Rehabilitation Supervisor, Iowa City

    Website

    Iowa Department for the Blind
    Reilly, Anna
    Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor

    Miller, Rachel
    Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor

    Website

    Signatory
    Iowa Department for the Blind
    Keri Osterhaus
    Program Administrator

    Member of the East Central Iowa Core Partner Team, lead MOU negotiators 

  • AARP Foundation
    Angela Richardson
    Project Director

    Website

    State of Iowa

    National Able Network, Inc.
    Alejandra Sinecio
    Chief Program Officer

    Website

    Signatory

    Matt Weis
    President & CEO

  • Local Negotiator

    Signatory
    Iowa Workforce Development – Workforce Services Division
    Michelle McNertney
    Bureau Chief, Title I, Title II

  • Iowa Workforce Development
    Jamie Norton

    Signatory
    Linda Rouse
    AJC Division Administrator 

  • Proteus
    Tyler Black
    Career Coach

    Website

  • Iowa Workforce Development
    Scott Perkins (State)

  • Local Negotiator
    Iowa Workforce Development
    Elizabeth Waigand
    Operations Manager

    Website

    Signatory
    Linda Rouse
    AJC Division Administrator

  • Local Negotiator
    Stephanie Muters
    PROMISE JOBS Manager, Cedar Rapids Service Area

    Website

    Signatory
    Iowa Workforce Development
    Michelle McNertney

  • Kirkwood Community College
    Career and technical education programs at post-secondary level

    Colette Atkins
    Associate Vice President, Academic Affairs

    Website

  • Not applicable for East Central Iowa

  • Not applicable for East Central Iowa

  • Iowa Workforce Development