Focus: Education

Sabina White has recently retired from UCSB where she was Director of Health and Wellness. In this capacity she developed and taught many courses in both Sociology and Education related to health, peer health education and wellness. In addition, she taught in the UCSB Teacher Education Program for many years, covering the health standards for…

Marta Ulvaeus, MA, earned her BS at UC Davis in Applied Behavioral Sciences, with an emphasis on ethnomusicology, after initially studying Nutrition Science for several years. Her passion for the performing arts led her to New York City, where she received an MA in Performance Studies from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Marta has…

Dr. Mark Shishim holds three degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, including a B.A. in Sociology, M.A. and Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, Organizational Theory and Policy. For the last ten years he has served UCSB as an educator, student affairs professional, applied researcher and collaborator. In addition to Antioch, he holds a teaching…

Ann Lippincott, PhD, is a member of the MAETC Advisory Board and has taught the Reading and Language Arts curriculum courses for MAETC students since its inception. She spent the first decade of her career as a classroom teacher serving linguistically and culturally diverse student populations. She received her Bilingual/Cross-Cultural Certification in 1978, and completed…

Victoria “Tory” Harvey taught secondary Social Studies and English for 10 years before leaving the classroom to pursue research on teacher education and professional development. Though she loved working with energetic middle schoolers, she discovered an interest in teacher education through her service as a cooperating teacher for Pepperdine University. Currently in the final year…