Chancellor's Office

Mojdeh Mehdizadeh serves as the 10th Chancellor for the Contra Costa Community College District (4CD), where she is responsible for assessing, planning, organizing, and evaluating the resources, programs, and services of 4CD to meet the educational needs of the students and the community. In her former role as Executive Vice Chancellor, Education and Technology, she led efforts across the colleges (Contra Costa, Diablo Valley, and Los Medanos) in educational programs, student services, workforce and economic development, information technology, international education, distance education, research and planning, and grants. Mojdeh has also served as President of Contra Costa College. In her early tenure, she taught Speech Communications as an adjunct faculty member at Diablo Valley College.

Mojdeh completed her undergraduate general education requirements at Diablo Valley College, where she developed her understanding and appreciation of the importance of the community college system in developing students for meaningful roles in their careers and the community. Mojdeh is a passionate leader in assuring excellent and affordable post-secondary education for all students, regardless of their social and economic situation, and is laser focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging for everyone community colleges serve. She has been and continues to be very active in state, federal, and other organizations aimed at enhancing equitable public educational systems throughout California. Her participation and advocacy in this area extends to serving locally on the Board of the Richmond Promise, and in shaping the statewide directions in support of student access and success with the California Community Colleges. She currently serves as one of the Chief Executive Officers of the California Community Colleges and was recently appointed to the Chief Executive Officers of the California Community Colleges Fraud Prevention Taskforce.

Mojdeh holds a Master of Arts degree in Organizational and Intercultural Communications from California State University East Bay and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from San Francisco State University.