Focus: Undergraduate Studies
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Susan Jane Gentile, MS
Sue earned a BA in political science and environmental studies at Williams College. She worked for over twenty years at Northfield Mount Hermon School as a teacher, dorm head, athletics coach, director of environmental education, chair of the executive committee of the faculty, and dean. Sue also has an M.S. in environmental studies earned at…
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Rosa Garza-Mourino, MA
As transdisciplinary educator and scholar since 2000, Rosa teaches practical applications of analysis tools to the subjects of film, media, arts-based activism, cultural diasporas, and cities, especially Los Angeles as a learning context. Seeking to make these topics and skills also accessible to early college Humanities students, designed and taught for twelve years the Bridge…
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Rob Fox, MFA
I teach academic writing for AULA in both the graduate and undergraduate programs. I am a creative non-fiction writer specializing in Memoir. I have taught creative self-reflective writing in LA County Juvenile Halls for Insideout Writers for over a decade, and also teach memoir writing to seniors at Emeritus College in Santa Monica. I have…
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Al Erdynast, DBA
Al Erdynast, DBA, recently developed a reliable scoring system for the study of developmental levels of conceptions of compassion in a study conducted with a former Secretary to The Dalai Lama. Al also previously designed a research project for UCLA to study whether Tibetan refugee adolescent orphans were preserving traditional Tibetan values in exile, and…
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Gopal Dayaneni, MA
Gopal has been involved in fighting for social, economic, environmental, and racial justice through organizing & campaigning, teaching, writing, speaking, and direct action since the late 1980s. He currently serves on the Staff Collective of Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project, which brings a strategic understanding of the ecological crisis and transition to racial and…
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Carol V. Davis, MA
Carol V. Davis is the author of Because I Cannot Leave This Body (Truman State Univ. Press, 2017), Between Storms (Truman State University Press, 2012). She won the 2007 T.S. Eliot Prize for Into the Arms of Pushkin: Poems of St. Petersburg. Her first book, It’s Time to Talk About… was published in a bilingual…