California State Committee
Dr. Mark Ruzon
Chair
Mark was born and raised in Illinois and came to California for college. He got involved in politics in 2003, when he became a leader with Peninsula Interfaith Action (PIA), part of the PICO National Network (now Faith in Action). Mark organized a group at his parish that helped successfully lobby for the creation of the Opportunity Center of Palo Alto, a homeless service center with 88 units of affordable housing. He later became co-chair of PIA’s Board of Directors.
Mark found the ASP in 2017 and helped organize the 2020 state convention before becoming Vice Chair of the State Committee from 2020-22. He was Chair from 2022-24 and Secretary from 2024-26 before becoming Chair again. He ran for U.S. Senator twice, in 2022 as a write-in candidate and in 2024 on the ballot. He holds the record for most ASP votes in a California election. He recently served as treasurer for the Duane Loynes Jr. gubernatorial campaign. He is a software engineer and liturgical musician and lives in Mountain View with his wife Lesley. They have four children.
Desmond Silveira
Vice Chair/Executive Director
Desmond Silviera was the 2018 California gubernatorial candidate for the ASP, the campaign manager for the Maturen/Muñoz 2016 campaign, the campaign manager for the Carroll/Patel 2020 campaign, and a former State Committee Chair. Today he actively helps recruit leadership and members to the party. He is a practicing Catholic, professional software engineer, a husband, and a father of nine children. Born in Zambia and of Indian (Goan) descent, he has lived in southern California since he was one year old. After receiving his Bachelor of Science in computer science from California Polytechnic University, Pomona, Desmond has worked at various companies and organizations including GE, JPL, YellowPages.com, Los Angeles Times, and Disney.
He is socially conservative and fiscally moderate and had spent his adult life as a Republican until the 2016 election season, when he discovered the American Solidarity Party. Desmond has been involved at different times with various ministries at his parish including CCD, Familia, and Cub Scouts. In his free time, Desmond enjoys playing video games with his kids.
Dominick DiCarlo
Dominick DiCarlo grew up in Davis, CA where he also attended school at UC Davis. Dominick taught music and theology for seven years in Tampa, Florida before returning to the West Coast. Dominick is currently the headmaster at the Chesterton Academy in Dixon and the Director of Music at St. Mary’s, Vacaville. Dominick served as a secretary to the National Convention in 2020. Dominick was elected as a delegate to the 2022 National Convention from California and served as the Convention’s President. He is particularly interested in growing local involvement in the party throughout Northern California.
Jeff Culbreath
Jeff Culbreath is a fourth-generation Californian living in Citrus Heights. He holds a B.A. in Economics from CSU Sacramento, has owned a retail printing business, worked in real estate and business brokerage, and presently toils in the apparel industry as an account executive. Jeff is an active member of his Catholic parish and serves as an officer in his local council of the Knights of Columbus. He has been involved in the ASP since 2016, when he was elected as a California delegate for the presidential election. Jeff is a strong supporter of the current ASP platform and believes that California is fertile ground for the party’s continued growth.
Domenico Camplisson
Domenico Camplisson is currently a resident of San Diego County. He was born in Belfast, Ireland and lived for 23 years in a violent, sectarian, militarized and unjust colonial society, which engendered in him a lifelong interest in social justice and a rational civic society. In Ireland he worked for UK (North of Ireland polity) and Republic of Ireland governments.
He emigrated to the U.S. in 1985 and worked for San Diego County government for 35 years, retiring in 2020 as a social services manager, specializing in mental health and homeless services. He is married to Kim, a retired high school teacher and former journalist. In 38 years of marriage, they happily raised two biological children and multiple unofficial foster children.
Currently Domenico volunteers with the San Diego Safari Park and the Sheriff’s Department. Because he retired from the County and not from working, he has three part-time jobs: security for the California Center for the Arts (CCAE) Escondido, patroling beaches for the Ocenside Police Department (a true California dream job), and teaching online for a private university, based in Old Town San Diego, whose student body is almost completely foreign. He is a Knight of Malta. He is a graduate of Queen’s University Belfast (BA Hons) and the University of Dallas (Masters in Theological Studies) and has taught formation classes to catechists, parishioners, and diaconal candidates for the Diocese of San Diego. He has taught for other local private colleges. He is a former Mental Health First Aid instructor, training first responders how to deal with the special needs of people in mental health crises. He regularly volunteers with organizations dedicated to social justice, anti-trafficking, and homeless prevention. He does not need to work but likes to do work that has a purpose.
Michelle Regello
Michelle is a second-generation California native, and having not been raised Catholic, considers herself a “revert.” She’s been a mobile notary public for 16 years, is active in square dance with Timothy, her civil engineer husband, and proudly added a daughter to her three grown sons, who fondly call her “mother of three, parent to the world.”
Michelle returned to school to pursue her long-time dream to become a writer and illustrator of children’s books at a local Catholic University, and wondered why – despite faithful Catholic teaching – there was no mention of Distributism in economic classes.
Discordant politics and faced with “the least of two evils” sort of choices in the last few US Presidental elections, her research led to the American Solidarity Party. In 2024 she voted for her first write-in Presidential candidate (Peter Sonski), and put “feet to her belief.” She was elected in 2026.