Michele Bresso has been recently selected to be the Kern Community College District’s full-time Associate Vice Chancellor of Governmental and External Relations.
As a former Communication professor and former director of marketing and public relations, Bresso has carried out the KCCD governmental relations position on an interim, part-time basis since August 2010.
Bresso has been with the KCCD for 18 years.
After 11 years of public relations, she went back to school and got her master’s degree and started teaching in the Bakersfield College Communication Department.
She has worked with the Kern High School District for 12 years and studied journalism.
Bresso is currently nearing completion of her doctorate at Fielding Graduate University, where she is working on her Ph.D. in Human and Organizational systems with dissertation research in community college leadership development.
In her current full-time position, Bresso said she will miss her role as a professor of communication at BC.
“The relationships with the students are irreplaceable,” said Bresso.
She plans on being on campus regularly and said, although she’s not formally teaching, she will always be connected with the students.
Bresso’s new job entails communication with legislative branches of government, including federal, state and local government personnel.
Her two main goals are to communicate to both legislators and staff and speak on the behalf of KCCD and also to build a relationship with the community businesses and other local governmental agencies.
Bresso said a field representative by the name of Javier Reyes for Assemblywoman Shannon Grove comes to BC on the third Thursday of every month.
The next meeting is Sept. 15 from 10 a.m. to noon in the Levinson building room 5.
Bresso is currently trying to get more assembly representatives to stop by BC to have the students voice their opinions and say what is on their minds.