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Darlene Colaso, Assistant City Manager/Human Resources Administrator

Darlene Colaso was hired as the City of Oberlin’s first Assistant City Manager and Human Resources Administrator in October 2008.  While an HR Generalist, she is also a Worker Occupational Safety & Health Specialist, certified by the University of California at Berkeley and has a Juris Doctor from John F. Kennedy University School of Law in Walnut Creek, California.

Darlene has more than 20 years of human resources expertise with the last five in municipal government service.  She served as the Deputy City Clerk for the City of Norwich, New York and as the Town Clerk/Assistant to the Town Manager and as the Human Resources/Risk Manager for the Town of Moraga in the San Francisco Bay Area of Northern California.