Josh Chisom is the Broadband Program Manager at the California State Library, as well as an expert on E-rate/The Universal Service Fund, K12 and Library Educational Technology and procurement.

Although his career path has taken him from universities to private companies to non-profits and from administration to sales to consulting to public service, the common threads have always been education, technology and customer relationship management. His educational background in anthropology and job history in client- and public-facing positions has given him a deep well of resources to draw from in working with internal and external customers, clients, and the public. He is comfortable in any educational or non-profit sector, and has a great deal of experience in the private sector as well.

Specialties: E-rate/the Universal Service Fund, K16 educational technology, Library technology, Higher education administration, broadband procurement and RFP development. grant administration, project management, process improvement, data gathering and analysis, and writing.