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Karen Gilliam ’06
Karen Gilliam ’06 (GSLC, PhD) was selected to serve as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Chief Learning Officer and Organization Development Capability Lead. Additionally, Dr. Gilliam recently obtained the Associate Certified Coaches credential from the International Coach Federation (ICF).
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Sean Creighton ’06
Sean Creighton ’06 (GSLC, PhD) has been named president of The New American Colleges and Universities (NACU). NACU is a national consortium of selective independent higher education institutions dedicated to the integration of liberal education, professional studies, and civic engagement.
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Carolyn Back ’06
Carolyn Back ’06 (Seattle, BA) was hired in January 2018 as Director of Planning with Tulsa firm, KKT Architects. Back has more than seventeen years of experience in her field, and her directorship allows the firm to add land planning services and pre-development research through site analysis and due diligence reports.
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Vanessa Dominguez ’05
Vanessa Dominguez ’05 (New England, MA) is the Director of Disabled Students Programs and Services at Orange Coast. Dominguez previously served as the Director of Disability Services and Adjunct Professor in the Physician’s Assistant program at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
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Joan Dempsey ’05
Joan Dempsey ’05 (Los Angeles, MFA) and fellow Maine novelist and friend, Margaret Broucek read from their work and discussed becoming debut authors later in life and the joys of a literary friendship at the Southwest Harbor Public Library in August 2018. Dempsey’s Novel, This is How it Begins, was published by She Writes Press…
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Debra Gaskill ’04
Debra Gaskill ’04 (Midwest, MA) received the 2018 Silver Falchion Best Suspense Award at the Killer Nashville International Writer’s Conference for her latest novel, Kissing Fitz. Gaskill was an award-winning journalist for 20 years, writing for a number of Ohio newspapers covering the cops and courts beat, and the Associated Press. She retired as the…
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Sekai K. Ward ’02
Sekai K. Ward ’02 (Los Angeles, MFA) was interviewed in the online literary journal, The Muffin (WOW! Women on Writing). She was a runner-up in the Quarter 4 Creative Nonfiction Essay Contest for her essay, “The Passing.” Ward is in private practice and utilizes bibliotherapy and expressive writing to help clients struggling with depression, anxiety,…
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Jeanette Grisham ’02
Jeanette Grisham ’02 (Seattle, MA) is the new Principal of Lakewood High School in Lakewood, CA. Grisham has been a math teacher, facilitator and regional math coordinator. Most recently she was assistant principal at Bellingham High School.
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Wendy Chamberlain ’02
Wendy Chamberlain ’02 (Seattle, MA) was appointed as the Director of Expansion and Innovation with The BOMA Project, a U.S. nonprofit and Kenyan NGO with a transformative approach to alleviating poverty and building resiliency in the drylands of Africa.
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Rebecca Kuder ’01
Rebecca Kuder ’01 (Los Angeles, MFA) contributed a short story “The Only Flower That Mattered” to newly published, multi-author anthology The Book of Flowering. The book features new short fiction that explores the concepts of fatal beauty and impermanence.
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Terri J. Raymond ’01
Terri J. Raymond ’01 (Seattle, MA) began a one-year term as the 2019-2020 President of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals. She is a registered dietitian nutritionist.
