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Erika Melton
7/1/2022 – 6/30/2024
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Assistant Board Secretary
Erika Melton is excited to begin her journey as a new member of the Board of Directors for Connecting Waters Charter Schools. As a parent at CWCV for 6 years, she has watched her two children excel and grow while utilizing the many resources CWCS has to offer. Erika began her love of education working in Children’s centers and earned her BA in Early Childhood Education with a Minor in Exceptional Youth from CSU, Stanislaus in 2009. Feeling the need to stay at home with her son, she opened a Family Day Care so that she could continue to educate while keeping things more personalized for her growing family. As her children grew older, she took on other roles that allowed her to teach another passion she has, sewing!
Erika is currently a stay-at-home mom who has been homeschooling her two children, now in the 4th and 7th grades. She volunteers as a Girl Scout Leader for her daughter’s troop and loves taking on
projects that allow her to utilize her passions of creativity and educating others.
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Denise Davis
7/1/2023 – 6/30/2025
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Board Member
Denise Davis has been married for thirty-nine years to her husband, Mark. They have four children, two of which graduated from Connecting Waters Charter Schools. She is a grandma to eleven grandkids, and out of those, three currently attend CWCS. Denise is presently working as the Chief Financial Officer for a local construction corporation.
Over the twenty-plus years of Denise’s homeschooling career, she has acquired experience in the many facets of personalized learning and has become well acquainted with information on successfully navigating the homeschooling process. She enjoys volunteering her time at homeschool conventions and with her granddaughter's Girl Scout troop. Her passion is helping children discover and learn their individual interests and thrive in pursuing them. She has many interests, including anything involving crafts, cake decorating, and science, but her favorite is community service. She looks forward to serving the parents, students, and staff as a member of the Board of Directors.
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Kaneez Fatima
7/1/2022 – 6/30/2024
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Board Member
Kaneez Fatima is a proud mother of two boys. Having gone through the traditional route of schooling, she always felt that she wanted more choice and say in her own early education. She wanted her children to have that choice so they could drive their own learning with their own interests. While exploring many education options she found Connecting Waters Charter Schools and immediately liked their Personalized Learning approach. Her family has since been with CWCS for more than ten years. Her older child will be graduating from High School this coming year.
Before becoming a mom, she worked as a Senior Financial Auditor with Deloitte for six years and gained valued audit experience with over 40 companies. She has experience auditing with many industry sectors; manufacturing, hospitality, banking, insurance, construction, pharmaceuticals, wholesale, retail, and more.
She currently works as a Resident Coordinator for a DV shelter in the Bay Area. She is a strong advocate for women’s and youth empowerment and has volunteered with several organizations for projects focusing on women and youth development. She loves to work with youth and finds their creativity and imagination inspiring. She believes that investing in a good education contributes toward a successful society.
She loves to travel and explore new places. She wants to plant the seeds of curiosity in her children so they can gain experiences from the miracles in the world around them. She is also a foodie and loves to try new cuisines. Her favorite past-time is reading, and most of the time, can be found sitting in a corner nose-deep in a book. She loves to create and enjoys learning new skills. Currently, she is into watercolor paintings.
She hopes to bring her unique attitude of learning-by-exploring to inspire students and parents at Connecting Waters Charter Schools.