Frances P. Battle

Principal, Nibley Park School

Panelist

For over four decades, Frances P. Battle has dedicated her life to educating Salt Lake City’s youth. She is a strong advocate for Equity Diversity and Inclusion and daily encourages her students and staff to be the “Best That They Can Be.” She feels that every student should have an equitable opportunity to learn, excel and achieve.  As a graduate of Morris Brown College, an HBCU in Atlanta, Georgia, she started her career as an English teacher at Jordan Intermediate School in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has taught at Glendale Middle School, was an Assistant Principal at Northwest Middle School, and principal at Bryant Middle School. She currently serves as principal at Nibley Park School (K-8). Frances is a member The Pastor France A. Davis Scholarship Board, Zions Bank Community Board and Ballet West Emeritus Board. She is proud to be a longtime member of the University of Utah’s Martin Luther King Jr. Planning Committee. Frances is also an active member of the Point Church and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated.

Her recognitions include Utah Assistant Principal of the Year, Huntsman Outstanding Principal of the Year, YWCA Outstanding Leadership Award, Westminster College Outstanding Alumni, NAACP Rosa Parks Award, and Omega Psi Phi, Iota Iota Iota Chapter, Outstanding Educator. She was also recognized by the Utah Jazz as one of the team’s Women’s Month honorees. In May of 2023, she was humbled to receive an Honorary Ph.D. in education from the University of Utah. Frances earned a master’s degree in education from Westminster College and has an Administrative Endorsement from Utah State University. She is married to Jerome Battle, and they are the proud parents of one daughter, Gretchen Battle.

Diane Hartz Warsoff, MBA

President, Exit Factor

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Originally from Philadelphia, PA, Diane Hartz Warsoff (she/her) has lived in Utah for nearly 30 years, where she is a small business owner. Since her late childhood, Diane has heard the stories from her mother and grandparents of their harrowing experience during WWII and the Shoah. In 2013, she and her mother attended their first conference of the Child Survivors of the Holocaust and Their Descendants, where Diane learned the importance and the means to tell her family’s story as a second-generation survivor.

Diane is an active volunteer, serving as Treasurer for the National Council of Jewish Women and is active with TreeUtah and the United Jewish Federation of Utah. She served as a French interpreter at the Salt Lake Winter Olympics and is a living kidney donor. Diane earned an MBA in Finance and International Business from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU and a B.S. in Economics in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She loves to hike in the mountains, misses the beach, and she has two grown children as well as three cats.

Jeanette Misaka

Emeritus Clinical Professor
The University of Utah

Panelist

Dr. Jeanette Misaka of Salt Lake City, Utah, is an alumnus of the U and emeritus clinical professor in the U Department of Special Education. Dr. Misaka has dedicated herself to various human rights issues such as the promotion of the rights of women, racial minorities and people with disabilities. She has particularly committed herself actively to the improvement of circumstances surrounding the rights of Japanese American citizens. She has been a dedicated member of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) since the early 1950’s. Dr. Misaka experienced the internment of Japanese American citizens during WWII at Heart Mountain Internment Camp in Wyoming and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation. She continues to be actively engaged with numerous cultural activities related to Japan and the Japanese American community, and her efforts are reflected in the continuing preservation of Japanese American history and greater mutual understanding within our national societies.

Eileen Tinhorn Quintana

Program Manager, Nebo Title VI Education Program

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Eileen Tinhorn Quintana was born in Bluff, Utah. She spent her early childhood living on the Navajo Nation Reservation. Eileen has a great passion for American Indian culture and teaching about the contributions of indigenous communities. As the program manager of the Nebo Title VI Education Program, Eileen has worked very diligently to significantly increase the graduation rates among American Indian students and integrated performing arts and culture into academic success. In 2004 Nebo Indian Education received a national award “Exemplary Indian Education” by Catching The Dream organization, and a state award for Indian Education Summer school by Utah Division of Indian Affairs. She was recognized by Utah State Office of Education with a Life Skills Award in 2008. Eileen was selected as one of Utah’s American Graduate Champions by Utah Education Network in 2015. In 2017, Eileen became a Running Strong for American Indian Youth Dreamstarter Teacher, and for the last two years Nebo Indian Education has been selected as a mentor program for Running Strong dreamstarters. For over 20 years, she has created a partnership with the Adopt-A-Native Elder Program (ANE). She now serves on the Board of Directors for ANE.