Educational Background


Doctoral Studies

Educational Organization & Policy Analysis

University of California

Berkeley, California


Masters in Education

Education of the Exceptional Child

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, California



Bachelor of Political Science

Constitutional Law

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, California


Language Studies

Academia Hispano-Americana

San Miguel de Allende, México


Dan’s educational background includes specializations in educational evaluation and policy analysis, special education for physically disabled students, South African, Latin American, and Meso-American studies, political science, comparative cultures & religions, world cuisines, choral direction, organ, piano and liturgical music.

Internationally, Dan also has had the opportunity to learn and more deeply understand commonalities and differences among people and cultures through his education work in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Experiential Background

Cieloha is Founding Principal of CDC Evaluation & Development, an international learning and evaluation firm. In diverse fields including evaluation, formal and informal education, curriculum development, museum design, and organizational development and reform, CDC E & D serves a wide variety of private and public companies, organizations, and institutions. He is also President of the Partnership for Interactive Learning, one of New England ’s leading non-profit organizations dedicated to the development of children’s social and thinking skills.

He has extensive practical experience in the fields of informal and formal education and youth development. He founded Richmond, California's Disabled People's Recreation Center as well as supervised in-school arts & academics programs serving some 2,300 elementary-age students.

Dan has been a classroom teacher for physically disabled preschool children, a teacher of English as a Second Language, and Resource Specialist for inner-city elementary schools.

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Dan is Founding Principal of CDC Evaluation & Development, (CDC E & D) a consulting, training, and materials development group he has headed since 1985.

Dan Cieloha is a facilitator, analyst, evaluator, planner, and educator with more than 35 years experience working with non-profit, for-profit, and governmental programs and organizations nationally and internationally. He has extensive experience in policy analysis, organizational development (including strategic planning strategic alignment, and Board formation and development), and bottom-up  development, youth and minority empowerment through authentic participation and self-assessment.

These experiences give him unique perspectives and powerful insights into development and an equally strong commitment to listen, facilitate reflection, and share in creating and implementing programs and organizations that empower stakeholders and strengthen organizations.