Board of Regents

Suzanne L. Gallen, Chairwoman (Pohnpei State)–(2019-2022, 2022 current)

• Currently Country Officer - World Bank North Pacific Office
• 6 years international organizations and local diplomatic missions
• 11 years government public service including senior level program management and foreign service
• 2 years paralegal
• Post-graduate Diploma in Development Studies, University of South Pacific; Post-graduate Certificate in Diplomatic Studies/Foreign Service Programme, Oxford University, Oxford, UK; Certificate in Pacific Diplomacy, University of South Pacific; Certificate in Diplomacy, Chinese Foreign Affairs University; BA in Political Science, University of Hawaii; COM-FSM Robert C. Byrd Scholar; Diploma, Xavier High School

Geraldine Mitagyow, Member (Yap State) (2013)

• Currently Business Advisor at Yap SBDC
• 4 years as Peer Counseling Coordinator and Upward Bound Counselor at COM-FSM Yap Campus; Taught several certificate level courses while employed by COM-FSM
• 3 years as admin assistant to College President, Portland Community College, Portland, OR; Prior 3 years as assistant to Executive Director of LRC, Portland Community College, Portland, OR;
• 4 years at Yap Community Action Program as Administrative Officer and later as Deputy Director
• Other experience: Co-founder and Board Member of a community-run non-profit fostering economic development activities based on traditional and innovative uses of coconut products/by-products since 2019; Participated in workshop sponsored by SPC Coconut Industry Development Program titled Pacific Coconut Sector Value Chain Workshop in 2017, Nadi, Fiji
• BS, Business Marketing & Management, University of Oregon, Portland, OR; Certificate of Mediation and Conflict Resolution, Portland Community College

Lynn Sonden, Member – National Government (2024 – )

• Currently, Congress Public Information Officer and Special Assistant to the Speaker for Public Relations & Protocol, Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia
  18 years at the Congress of the FSM
• 7 years at the Office of the President
• 25 years of service in the National Government at senior administrative level
• 6 years with the San Diego Child Protective Services in Administrative Support
• BS, in Mass Communication from the Eastern New Mexico University

Jeffrey S. Arnold, Member (Chuuk State)

• Currently an entrepreneur, marketing manager for UPDATED
• Worked at COM-FSM from January 1990 to September 2016
• 26 years with the COM-FSM, served as an administrative assistant to assistant campus director and as a student services coordinator
• Alumnus of the College of Micronesia, recieved his AS in Business Administration.
• He also attended the University of Guam for two years
• Replaces Mr. Johannes Berdon as the Chuuk State representative.