Dan Frisella, Nevada Union JHS District Superintendent

Host Lori Burkart Frank gives us the inside scoop on Dan Frisella, Superintendent of the Sierra Nevada Joint Union High School District. Dan served in educational roles in Sacramento, Marin County and in wilderness education central Oregon. He came to Nevada County in 2011, and rose to the Superintendent position this year. Dan grew up in Foster City in a family that was into sports with a single mom and an older brother. In college, he abandoned his childhood dream of working with large cats—lions and tigers and such—when a friend introduced him to Nevada County wilderness. He lives locally with wife Julie and three school-aged boys, and spends his free time mountain-biking, snowboarding, hiking traveling and coaching his boys in basketball and baseball.