Bios

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 holds a Juris Doctor from John F. Kennedy University School of Law.

Darlene has more than 20 years of human resources expertise with the last seven years in municipal government service.  She served as the Deputy City Clerk and Assistant to the Mayor 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.

In her Assistant City Manager capacity, Darlene is the project coordinator for the Oberlin Underground Railroad Center (OURC) Project – a multi-million dollar capital project that entails rehabilitating an 1889 gasholder building, which will soon serve the region as a multi-modal park-and-ride visitor’s center and an Underground Railroad Center for learning.

 

 

Matthew Hrubey, Administrative Assistant to the City Manager / Human Resources Administrator           

Matthew Hrubey was hired in November 2011 as the Administrative Assistant to both the City Manager and the Assistant City Manager / Human Resources Administrator.

Born and raised in Northeast Ohio, Matthew is a 2006 graduate of Berea High School in western Cuyahoga County.  In 2010, Matthew received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from Mount Union College.  Currently, he is pursuing a Master of Public Administration degree from the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University.  Matthew is scheduled to complete his MPA in May 2012.

Matthew’s work and public service experience includes serving as a(n):

• Intern for the North Canton Department of Economic Development (May 2009 – October 2009)
• Intern for the North Canton Clerk of Council, answerable to the City Council (June 2009 – December 2009)
• Policy Intern for the Council of State Governments in Washington, D.C. (January 2010 – May 2010)
• Legislative Intern for the Ohio Department of Commerce, answerable to the Ohio Director of Commerce (June 2010 – August 2010)
• Intern for the Mayor of Fairview Park (January 2011 – May 2011)
• Graduate Research Assistant for the Center for Economic Development at Cleveland State University (August 2010 – Present)