Kilolo Brodie Appointed to California State Council on Developmental Disabilities

Kilolo Brodie, 44, of Turlock, has been appointed to the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities.

Brodie has served in several positions for the Master of Social Work Program at California State University, Stanislaus since 2010, including department chair, master of social work program director, director of field education and associate professor. She was an assistant professor at California State University, East Bay from 2008 to 2010, where she was a project coordinator of the Title IV-E Child Welfare Stipend 2004 to 2008.

Brodie was a supervised visitation program social worker at the Far Southeast Family Strengthening Collaborative in 2004 and a lecturer at the Catholic University of America and at Eastern Mennonite University in 2003. She was a family group conference project manager at Columbia Heights Shaw Family Support Collaborative from 2001 to 2003 and a graduate assistant at Howard University from 2000 to 2001.

Brodie served in several positions at the Stanislaus County Community Services Agency Child Protective Services Division from 1998 to 2000, including emergency response intake worker and family reunification case worker. Brodie is a member of the National Down Syndrome Congress, National Association of Social Workers, Stanislaus County Special Education Local Plan Area Community Advisory Committee, California Faculty Association African American Caucus and the California Faculty Association Disabilities Caucus. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in social work from the Howard University School of Social Work and a Master of Social Work degree from California State University, Stanislaus.

This position does not require Senate confirmation and the compensation is $100 per diem. Brodie is a Democrat.