Dan Brunner has been a Board Member and Guarantor since the inception of MCE. He has also chaired or co-chaired the Loan Committee during this time. Dan began his career as a Legal Services attorney in Los Angeles and teaching law at UCLA and USC Schools of Law. He then became General Counsel for the State Department of Social Services in Sacramento. Dan then went back into public interest law as the Executive Director of the Western Center on Law and Poverty Legislative office. He then became General Counsel for the Governor's Office of Special Health Care Negotiations. This was followed by founding a managed health care company which became First Health, a publicly traded national company in which Dan was a Board Member and Executive Vice President. Dan has served on a number of not for profit boards including Capital Public Radio, Capital Stage and Sacramento Theater Company.