1 promotion, 2 hirings at JTED

The Pima County Joint Technical Education District (JTED) Governing Board recently approved a promotion and the hiring of two new staff members:

  • Tamara Nicolosi
  • , the assistant director of central campuses/assistant principal since 2011, has been promoted to the director of central campuses/principal, effective July 1.
  • Kathleen Koppy
  • will become the assistant director of central campuses/assistant principal starting July 1. She joins JTED from Tucson High Magnet School, where she is the career and technical education coordinator-department chairperson, and business/marketing teacher. Koppy previously completed assignments for JTED as a curriculum writing project lead writer and manager, and Employability Skills Committee member.
  • N.J. Katusz-Utter
  • will also join the staff in July, as a central campus counselor. Her focus will be on recruiting and helping students enrolled in JTED at Santa Rita, Empire and Tanque Verde schools, and at Project SEARCH. Her career with Sunnyside Unified School District included being the director of college readiness, and serving as a counselor, curriculum and instruction specialist, peer evaluator and an English teacher.

Chavira joins Rein & Grossoehme

Nic Chavira has joined Rein & Grossoehme Commercial Real Estate.

He was with The Danny Roth Team at Keller Williams Southern Arizona for the past five years.


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