Donna Arnold is the Assistant to the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and started in July 2007. Previously, Arnold was employed at the California Institute on Human Services as a Project Coordinator for over four years. She graduated from Sonoma State University in May 2002 with a degree in Business Administration with a concentration in finance. Donna lives in Rohnert Park with her husband Jim. She enjoys traveling, especially cruising, going to movies, reading and gardening.

Dave Henderson joined Faculty Affairs as our Information Systems Analyst on June 18, 2007 after a long and successful career as an analyst in Global Information Systems with Hewlett Packard and Agilent Technologies. Henderson's family moved from their native Britain in the fall of 2000 to permanently relocate in Sonoma County and have previously lived in England, Scotland, and Germany. He has a Bachelors Degree with Honors in Information Systems from Huddersfield University in England and for the last three years has brought his British soccer knowledge to the youth soccer coaching scene in northeast Santa Rosa where his family resides.

Evelyn Marten recently joined Faculty Affairs after a 15-year career with State Farm Insurance Companies where she was an Administrative Assistant and Word Processing Technician. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from East Bay University and was employed as a library technician at Stanford University. She and her husband have two grown children and grandchildren and live in Rohnert Park.

Rosanna Piña replaced Cindy Piccinini as the new Administrative Assistant and Receptionist for Faculty Affairs in the Office of the Provost as of May 31, 2007. Rosanna came to us from the California Institute on Human Services where she had been employed since 2004 as a Project Assistant. Rosanna enjoys gardening and spending as much time possible with her new granddaughter, Lauren Luna (Moon Child) Piña, and her two grandsons, Aidan and Avery Morgan.

Sally Sacchetto joined Sonoma State University in Academic Affairs as the new Director of Faculty Personnel in July 2007. Sacchetto comes to SSU with an extensive career in human resources and education serving most recently as the Director of Career Services at the California Culinary Academy located in San Francisco. Previous to this, she served as Director of Educational Services, Associate Dean and Director of Human Resources at the Academy. Sacchetto received her Bachelors degree in Communications from Oregon State University. She serves on the Academic Advisory Board at the California Culinary Academy and also on the Board of Directors for Novato Babe Ruth. She lives in Novato and has a son Marco, 15.