THE TEAM
MASON TILLMAN ASSOCIATES, LTD.
ELEANOR MASON RAMSEY, PH.D.,
President of Mason Tillman Associates, Ltd.
Eleanor Mason Ramsey, Ph.D. is President of Mason Tillman Associates, Ltd. located in Oakland, California. She earned her doctorate in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley and her baccalaureate in psychology from Hunter College in New York, New York. In 1978, she founded Mason Tillman, a nationally recognized leader in the area of local business program development, contract compliance, and local business program evaluation. Mason Tillman employs an accomplished team of public policy analysts, communication specialists, statisticians, and attorneys. They work closely together to craft and monitor its clients’ affirmative action policies, programs, practices and social marketing programs."

THERESAKO JONES HARRIS,
Assistant Project Manager
Theresako Jones Harris has an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Champaign/Urbana and a B.A. in Economics from Spelman College. Theresako Harris joined Mason Tillman in 2020 and is the assistant project manager for the Alameda County Disparity Study. She has over 15 years of experience in the information technology, education, and services industries, most recently as the finance manager for Williams Learning Solutions, a global learning platform that helps students achieve their learning potential in science. Prior to Williams Learning Solutions, she worked in a variety of finance and management capacities for Cisco Systems, IBM, Hewlett Packard, and Darden Restaurants, where she honed her skills in business partnering, cross-functional team leadership, people management, process improvements, and strategic messaging.
Ms. Harris will manage project schedules and staff, prepare project reports and presentations, coordinate project activities and communication with internal and external audiences, and conduct literature searches and other independent research for the study.
