Sumyyah Bilal, Planning Committee

Sumyyah Bilal, M.A., born in Birmingham, Alabama, almost during slavery, attended segregated schools. That beginning shaped who she is today and is something she treasures. In inner city Detroit, she taught Middle School. In the San Francisco bay area, she served as placement counselor at SF State, career counselor at Mills, program coordinator at Youth for Service for Oakland USD, and training placement coordinator with the Berkeley Urban League. While working with her husband as house parents at the Florida Sheriff’s Boy’s Ranch, she became familiar with computerized career information systems at the Florida Occupational Information Coordinating Committee (FLOICC). In 1980, she became Director of the Montana Career Information Systems, and in 1986, moved to her current position, as Executive Director of EUREKA, the California Career Information System.