Cabinet
What is the Salem-Keizer Public Schools cabinet?
The cabinet is comprised of the superintendent, assistant superintendents and department directors.
What does the cabinet do?
The cabinet is an advisory body to the superintendent that meets each week and collaborates to ensure Salem-Keizer Public Schools achieves Our Vision: All students graduate and are prepared for a successful life.
Executive Cabinet Members
Christy Perry
Superintendent
- Executive Administration
- School Board

Iton Udosenata
Assistant Superintendent, Secondary
- Secondary Programming, Services and Curriculum
- District Strategic Initiatives
- Public Complaints
- Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID)
- Principal Leadership Coaches
- Special Education
- Executive Cabinet
Iton Udosenata is a native Oregonian, and began his career in education in South Central Los Angeles in 2004. He returned to Oregon in 2006, leading a high school alternative education program before serving as a social studies teacher at Thurston High School for five years. Since then, he has held numerous positions including assistant principal at Willamette High School, principal at Cottage Grove High School and most recently serving at principal at North Eugene High School, which has experienced significant gains in graduation rates under his leadership.

Olga Cobb
Assistant Superintendent, Elementary
Olga Cobb has been a long-time familiar face in SKPS. Starting in 2000, Cobb began as a bilingual instructional assistant before moving into the role of community school outreach coordinator, school office specialist and grant coordinator. Olga has served as a district leader working for 11 years as principal at Highland and Chávez and leading the teacher preparation partnership between Chávez Elementary and two Salem-Keizer area universities.
Prior to being named assistant superintendent in 2021, Cobb served as a director of elementary education, providing leadership to elementary school principals on programs that help students learn and thrive.
Olga is equity focused in thinking and practice and centers her leadership on care and connection for students, families and community.

Robert Silva
Chief Operations Officer
- Financial Services
- Facilities & Planning (Facility Rentals)
- Auxiliary Services
- Safety & Risk Management
- Food & Nutrition Services
- Transportation
- Executive Cabinet
Silva has served in educational leadership roles for more than 24 years and brings a proven ability of strategic planning, running large operations and proactively discerning and responding to the needs of SKPS families with a focus on equity and customer service. He has served as the director of Technology and Information Services for SKPS since 2015.

Sylvia McDaniel
Director, Community Relations & Communications
- Communications Team
- District News
- Community Insider Newsletter
- Media Relations
- Pressroom
- Public Relations
- Social Media
- Executive Cabinet
Sylvia grew up in the Salem-Keizer area, attended Salem-Keizer Public Schools and is an alum of Richmond Elementary School, Parrish Middle School and graduated from North Salem High School. Sylvia has more than 20 years of experience in the field of public relations, marketing and communications. This experience includes working as Creative Manager for Georgia DOT in Atlanta, in public affairs and outreach for Oregon’s Department of Energy, public relations and communications consultant at Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland, public affairs director for KPDX-TV, director of marketing and communications for Downtown Seattle and director of marketing communications for the internationally-renowned Pike Place Market.
Sylvia sets the vision and leads the planning for strategic marketing communications and community relations for the district. She also serves on the Superintendent’s Executive Leadership and Cabinet teams and coordinates planning with managers in the department and oversees staff.

John Beight
Executive Director, Human Resources
- Human Resources
- Employee Relations
- Benefits
- Recruitment & Hiring
- Student Teaching
- Substitutes
- Staff Quality & Improvement
- Teaching Mentors
- Executive Cabinet