Campus: Los Angeles
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Alli Spotts-De Lazzer
Alli Spotts-De Lazzer is a licensed therapist (LMFT, LPCC) and eating disorders specialist (CEDS-C, IEDS) with nearly 20 years of clinical experience. Her teaching focuses on translating complex mental health concepts into practical, attuned care. She has presented over 50 workshops at conferences, universities, and training facilities. Alli is the lead author of My Child…
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Amanda Fenn, MS, LPC, LMHC, PPS
Amanda Fenn, MS, LPC, LMHC, PPS, is an adjunct faculty member who has been teaching in master’s-level counseling and psychology programs since 2018. She is currently a doctoral candidate (ABD) in Counselor Education and Supervision, where her dissertation focuses on research pedagogy and the development of research identity among counseling students. Her current primary teaching…
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Khadijah Queen, MFA, PhD
Khadijah Queen is the author of eight books of poetry and prose, including I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On (YesYes Books 2017), praised in O Magazine, The New Yorker, Rain Taxi, and elsewhere as “quietly devastating” and “a portrait of defiance that turns the male gaze inside out.”…
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Safia Elhillo
Sudanese by way of Washington D.C., Safia Elhillo is the author of Girls That Never Die, The January Children, Home Is Not a Country, and Bright Red Fruit, and co-editor of the anthology Halal If You Hear Me. She has received fellowships from Cave Canem and Stanford University, and her awards include a California Book…
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Stacey Waite, MFA, PhD
Stacey Waite is a poet, activist, educator, and scholar who conducts research in the field of composition and the teaching of writing as well. Originally from Long Island, New York, Stacey received a Master of Fine Arts in writing in 2002 and a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011. Waite is now Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln. Waite…
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Christine Hyung-Oak Lee
Christine Hyung-Oak Lee is the author of a memoir, Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember, which was published by Ecco / Harper Collins, highlighted on NPR's Weekend Edition with Scott Simon, reviewed by the New York Times, and elsewhere. It was the first illness memoir written by a BIPOC writer published by a major publishing…