Valentina (Tina) Viletto, JD, joins AESA after serving for twelve years as the Director of Community and Government Relations for the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit 23 (MCIU) and the coordinator of the MCIU Education Foundation in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Ms. Viletto has provided legal, legislative and policy guidance and worked with businesses, community members and government leaders to advocate and foster support for education initiatives. Ms. Viletto has served as the PA statewide lead of the Strategic Communications Job Alike Committee and been a member of key state and national education associations legislative committees. She currently is an active member of the Association of School Business Officials (ASBO) International Legislative Advocacy Committee and is a Member and Training Consultant for the Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA).
Ms. Viletto has a depth of experience facilitating board professional development sessions in areas of strategic planning and best governance practices, using her experience as an administrator and her eight-year service as a school board director/board president. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania School Boards Association (PSBA). She has been a presenter at numerous state and national conferences on topics including Governance, Leadership, Education Foundations, Advocacy, School Safety, and Human Resources Compliance. She is the 2018 recipient of the Pennsylvania Association of Intermediate Units’ Dr. Gary L. Miller Memorial Distinguished Service Award, the 2018 recipient of the Education Policy Leadership Center’s Leadership Program Alumni Award and the 2013 recipient of the PSBA’s Timothy M. Allwein Advocacy Award.
Prior to joining the MCIU, Ms. Viletto was in private practice as an attorney and accountant, particularly focused on tax, estate and nonprofit agencies. A former trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Tax Division, she earned her Juris Doctor at The American University, Washington College of Law and Bachelor of Science degree in Accountancy at Villanova University.