Center for Education, Equity and Diversity
Staff
Kristen B. French
Kristen
graduated
from
Western
Washington
University
with
bachelor’s
degrees
in
anthropology
(with
a
minor
in
Native
American
studies)
and
elementary
education.
She
taught
in
Marysville,
Wash.,
for
several
years,
where
she
received
the
Rainbow
of
Hands
Award
for
collaboratively
developing
and
implementing
the
first
ESOL
Family
Literacy
program.
Years
after
reading
Sonia
Nieto’s
Affirming
Diversity:
The
Sociopolitical
Context
of
Multicultural
Education
(1992)
in
a
cross-cultural
education
course
at
Western,
Kristen
decided
to
pursue
her
master’s
degree
in
bilingual,
ESL
and
multicultural
education
at
the
University
of
Massachusetts-Amherst.
While
in
Massachusetts,
Kristen
taught
in
an
urban
magnet
Montessori
school,
coordinated
the
Elementary
Teacher
Education
Program
(ETEP),
and
taught
the
Introduction
to
Multicultural
Education
course
for
undergraduates
at
UMASS.
Under
the
tutelage
of
Dr.
Nieto,
Kristen
finished
her
doctorate
in
language,
literacy
and
culture.
Her
research
interests
include
multicultural
teacher
education,
decolonizing
theory
and
critical
performative
pedagogy.
Kristen
is
looking
forward
to
returning
to
Western
as
a
faculty
member
for
the
Center
for
Educational
Pluralism.
She
sees
this
as
an
amazing
opportunity
to
put
the
theory
of
social
justice
into
practice
and
give
back
to
the
university
and
students,
where
her
journey
began
15
years
ago.
Lynda Spaulding, co-coordinator
Lynda is in her 2nd year working for CEED. Many years ago, she started her career as a social worker on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana. The experience was profound and has helped guide her work and life today. She has spent much of he adult life as a social worker working in several western states. Social justice, along with fishing, crabbing and the arts are a few of her passions. She is a graduate student in the Continuing and College Education Program and hopes to incorporate what she learns in the Center into my studies in the CCE program. Lynda has two young adult daughters, a loving partner and a good dog Moe. She looks forward to contributing to and learning from the Center more this year.
Jeremy Anhalt, co-coordinator
Jeremy is in his first year at WWU as a graduate student in Secondary Education with endorsements in general science and biology. Originally from Iowa, Jeremy is a veteran of the US Navy, a graduate of Iowa State University, and has worked several years as an aquatic biologist for the federal government in California, Oregon, and Washington. But the greatest asset that Jeremy brings to CEED is his empathy for immigrant issues after having lived and worked in Honduras for 2+ years. As a Peace Corps Volunteer living in a small mountain village within a national park, he assisted the community in many tasks including environmental education, community development, eco-tourism promotion, and coaching little league baseball, among many others. He credits this amazing experience for truly broadening his cultural horizons, which in addition to his travels around the world, he hopes to utilize and build on at CEED.
|
Former
CEED
Staff
Members:
(Thank you for everything you've done for CEED!) |
Dave
Morrin
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Leo Novikov
Kamalla Kaur
Evaline Hsu
Jamie Daniels
Hilary Hall
