Officers

Claire joined CCPTA in 2018, which introduced her to the big picture on APS goals, challenges, and spending. Her kids attend Swanson. She is currently serving as a member of the School and County Board Joint Facilities Advisory Commission and the County Board Fiscal Affairs Advisory Commission, trying to cross-pollinate good ideas wherever they pop up.  She works as an attorney for a federal financial regulator and enjoys vegetable gardening. 

Dima has represented her daughters’ schools at CCPTA for the past several years. She sees her new role at CCPTA as a natural extension to her overall involvement in serving APS students and advocating for them.  Over the past ten years that her children have attended APS schools (Dorothy Hamm Middle School, Arlington Science Focus, the Virtual Learning Program and the Montessori Program at Jamestown Elementary), she has enjoyed coaching basketball, coordinating and coaching Odyssey of the Mind, teaching Art in the Classroom, coaching Lego Robotics, and being a school volunteer among other school activities. Professionally, Dima is an attorney, arbitrator, and mediator. 

to come

currently vacant

Mike has two fifth graders at Discovery Elementary School and has served on the Discovery PTA Board as both Public Affairs Officer and Secretary.  He has been involved with the CCPTA since 2017 when he began serving as the school representative for Discovery.    Mike is an attorney at a law firm in Washington, D.C. and serves as a Board Member and Compliance officer the firm’s charitable foundation.  He also enjoys coaching each of his children’s Arlington youth sports teams. 

Laura has a 3rd grade son currently in the Arlington Virtual Learning Program (VLP) and whose home school is Escuela Key. In 2021-2022, Laura served as a liaison between Key students and families in the VLP and the Escuela Key community. In addition to that formal role, Laura spent a large portion of the last year working collaboratively with other VLP families from schools across Arlington and APS leadership to remedy the issues with the launch of that program. Trained as a policy analyst, Laura works as a Research Manager on Income Security issues for the non-partisan Congressional Research Service. She enjoys cooking, traveling, and cheering for her son’s baseball team.