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As an SNL student, you will be taught by DePaul's distinguished
faculty, who not only possess advanced degrees, but
who also have the power of professional experience.
Faculty provide academic advice and support to students
for the duration of their programs. You will also have
access to key staff in the School who will advise and
direct you throughout your program. Listed below are
the Faculty and Staff members of the SNL Center for Distance Education
Program.
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Alderson - Castaneda, Sue (Visiting Faculty)
Ms. Castaneda has worked in the field of human relations for over twenty years. Ms. Castaneda currently provides crisis intervention, short-term therapy, and empowerment strategies for parents. Ms. Castaneda has worked in the private and public sector leading organizations in the areas of business ethics, cultural competency, workplace diversity, conflict management, communication, and team building. Ms. Castaneda serves as a facilitator for many organizations and their board of directors. Ms. Castaneda provides workshops and training throughout the Western United States. Ms. Castaneda is the president of the consulting and training firm, Diversity America.
Email:
diversityamerica2@yahoo.com
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Allo, Andrew (Visiting Faculty)
Andrew A. Allo, BS; MS; PhD in Ecology. Dr. Allo has accumulated over 35 years of working experience in the conservation field. He was Principal of The Wildlife Management College, Garoua, Cameroon for 17 years during which time he taught ecology and protected area management. he was WWF ( World Wildlife Fund International) Project Manager for Korup Tropical Forest Park Project in Cameroon (1989 - 1992). Subsequently, he served as WWF Field Program Officer and then Technical Support Division Director for Cameroon. Dr. Allo has carried out numerous consultancies for the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO); the United Nations Development Program UNDP); the Intenational Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); and USAID in the past. Currently he is Head of Deparment for Environmental Sciences and Water Resources Management, the Bamenda University of Science and Technology, Bamenda, Cameroon. He is also President of a Cameroonian NGO (EDCIF) - Environmental Defense and Comsumer Interest Forum which is actively involved in various environmental projects.
Email:
dr_allo_snl@yahoo.com
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Amigorena, Luz (Visiting Faculty)
Luz Amigorena joins DePaul as a visiting faculty member after working as a marketing and branding manager for over 12 years in a variety of industries from advertising, to building systems, and aerospace. She graduated in 1992 from ITESM (Monterrey, Mexico) with a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing and in 2002 she earned an MBA from LeMoyne College (Syracuse, NY).
Email:
Luz.Amigorena@cox.net
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Anderson-Shaw, Lisa (Visiting Faculty)
Lisa Anderson-Shaw, DrPH, MA, MSN, currently serves as director of the Ethics Consult Service at the University of Illinois Medical Center (UIMC) in Chicago. She helped to design and implement the current hospital based consult service in 1998. Dr. Anderson-Shaw conducts most of the clinical case consultations and has helped to develop the consult service secured web-board for case consultation review by her peers. She has been a member of the UIMC ethics committee since 1989 and currently serves as the committee co-chair.
She developed an orientation program for new members of the UIMC clinical ethics consult team and provides ongoing education for the team members.
She is a member of the University of Illinois at Chicago Institutional Review Board # 1.
In June 2003, after initial research and development, she launched the UIMC sponsored “Illinois Health Care Ethics Committee” virtual discussion board and serves as the web board’s moderator.
(http://www.hospital.uic.edu/ethics/index.html)
She has been at UIMC since 1988 where she was the clinical nurse specialist in head and neck surgery at the UIC Eye and Ear Infirmary prior to working with the ethics consult service. She is a licensed and board certified Advance Practice Nurse in the state of Illinois, with 24 years of nursing experience, most of which has been in the critical care areas. Dr. Anderson-Shaw is an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UIC School of Nursing – Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, and adjunct instructor at the UIC School of Medicine – Department of Medical Humanities. She is also a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Concordia University in River Forrest, Illinois and at Loyola University, Chicago, where she teaches organizational ethics and health policy courses.
In addition, she is a member of the ethics committee and provides clinical ethics consultation service to MacNeal Health Systems in Berwyn and to RML Specialty Hospital in Hinsdale.
Dr. Anderson-Shaw is a contributing writer for the Greater Chicago/NE Illinois/NW Indiana edition of the national Nursing Spectrum and has written over 50 articles since 1993. She has also been published in the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Journal of Clinical Ethics, The American Journal of Bioethics, Journal of Nursing Administration’s Healthcare Law, Ethics & Regulation, and Bone Marrow Transplantation. She is on the editorial board for CHART – Journal of Nursing in Illinois and reviews for Critical Care Medicine, Saunders Book Company and the American Nurses Association Publications. She is currently doing research related to the identification of ethical issues in routine ambulatory care settings, ethics consultation in the emergency department, and the concept of a “donor advocate” related to living organ donation.
Dr. Anderson-Shaw completed a one year fellowship followed by 2 years as a senior fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. She is a member of the Chicago Clinical Ethics Program, The Society for Bioethics and Humanities, and the American Nurses Association. She has been an elected delegate to the Illinois Nurses Association (INA) convention , has served on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Nurses Association District 19, served on the INA Council on Ethics & Human Rights and has been active in her professional organization for the past 14years.
She received her BSN at Southern Illinois University, MSN from Indiana University, MA form Loyola University, Chicago and DrPH from the University of Illinois. (8/06)
Email:
LKAS@uic.edu
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Aquila, Louis (Visiting Faculty)
BS, major mathematics, cum laude, DePaul University 1959. MS mathematics, with distinction, DePaul University 1961. MS Industrial Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology 1973. Full-time mathematics instructor DePaul University 1962 - 1967. Adjunct associate professor mathematics DePaul University 1973 to present. Joint position between Liberal Arts & Scieces and the School for New Learning for 2003 - 2004. Adjunct at Oakton Community College and Northeastern University 1993 - 1997. National Science Foundation graduate summer research grant 1961 and Faculty Fellowship 1968 - 1969. Deeply commited to excellence in teaching and opening minds to the beauty of mathematics and lifelong learning.
Extensive business and software experience: 10+ years at telecommuniations company, 3 years at a bond trading firm, 8+ years at a major money center bank and 4 years at a small manufacturing company.
Email:
laquilaj@yahoo.com
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Bartholome, Paula (Visiting Faculty)
Paula Bartholome is the founding principal of Parallax (www.parallax-perspectives.com) . She works with organizations of all kinds who seek to provide an environment where hard fun—productive, meaningful and purposeful work —occurs. Functioning as a combined corporate jester and consultant, she helps people in organizations hear what they need to know to work together toward shared goals.
She has worked with groups ranging from Fortune 500 corporations to small not-for-profit organizations and writes and speaks on topics related to communication, collaboration and workplace community. She has been an adjunct faculty member in DePaul University’s School for New Learning for nearly four years teaching both online and in the classroom. Her courses focus on using storytelling in the workplace, collaborative learning and organizational learning.
Email:
parallaxpb@comcast.net
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Bascaran, Eduardo (Visiting Faculty)
Eduardo Bascaran has over 15 years experience in both the practical and academic aspects of new product development. After obtaining his M.S and Ph.D degrees from the University of Houston, he spent five years as a faculty member at ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico where he taught and performed research on design methodologies and tools. Eduardo then joined UTC Carrier where he led several multinational teams on the development and implementation of innovative air conditioning products. He later became an internal consultant within Carrier, helping global teams improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their product development efforts. He currently works for Xerox corporation where he is responsible for Engineering Learning programs and Design for Six Sigma.
Email:
ebas03@msn.com
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Ben-Yoseph, Yoav (Visiting Faculty)
Yoav Ben-Yoseph is a retired Professor of Genetics. He held appointments in the departments of Pediatrics, Obstetrics-Gynecology, Pathology, and Biochemistry-Molecular Biology of Wayne State University School of Medicine (Detroit, MI), the Department of Pediatrics of Northwestern University Medical School (Chicago, IL), and the Department of Chemical Immunology of the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel). He taught biochemistry and genetics to medical students, conducted research in the area of biochemical and molecular genetics, and directed a laboratory for prenatal diagnosis, postnatal diagnosis and carrier detection of inherited metabolic disorders. He published over 100 articles in refereed scientific journals, wrote chapters in several scientific and medical books, and presented findings in numerous national and international conferences. He is currently a consultant in mobile computing for software companies. Originally from Israel, Dr. Ben-Yoseph received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Email:
yoavbenyoseph@YAHOO.COM
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Benedetto, Corinne (Assistant Professor)
Dr. Benedetto received her degree in sociology from the University of Chicago in 1994. Her dissertation was a study of how a group of African-American child care providers negotiated the boundaries between money and emotion in their relationships with families. Corinne began working at School for New Learning as a visiting faculty member in 1997, joining the ranks of the resident faculty a year later. She teaches a variety of competences under the aegis of such courses as “Decoding Human Behavior”, “Socrates and the Greek Mind”, “Mind and Body: Bridging the Great Divide” and, of course, “Research Seminar”.
Email:
cbenedet@depaul.edu
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Berger, Jana (Visiting Faculty)
Jana Berger is an attorney who practices at Foley & Mansfield P.L.L.P. in Michigan. She earned her Juris Doctorate degree from Roger Williams University School of Law in 1998 and her Bachelor of Science (Political Science) degree from Northern Michigan University in 1994. She currently serves as defense counsel to various corporations in cases involving premises liability and product liability.
Ms. Berger also is recognized as an expert on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). She has been quoted as a HIPAA expert in Michigan Lawyers Weekly, and has published numerous articles on the Privacy Rules. She has given seminars on this subject for several, large public and private organizations.
In May 2006, Ms. Berger was awarded the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel Golden Gavel Award – Recognizing Rising Stars in Defense. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel and on the Board of Editors of Michigan Lawyers Weekly. She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, Michigan Defense Trial Counsel and the Defense Research Institute.
Email:
Bergmeister@yahoo.com
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Comeau Jr., Ludovic (Associate Professor )
Ludovic Comeau Jr. is a member of the resident faculty at SNL. He holds a Ph.D. in business economics, an MBA in finance and an MA in economics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an MA in French Literature from the University of Chicago, and a Bachelor in business administration and a Law degree from the State University of Haiti. He has taught various business and economic courses in the U.S. and in Haiti. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to complete graduate work in the U.S. in the 1990s. He received the Oscar Miller Award for Teaching Excellence and the Winifred Geldard Award for Outstanding Commitment to Excellence in Education while teaching at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He currently conducts research about the political economy of economic growth and the development of innovative teaching techniques, which he has presented to numerous professional and economic associations. He also focuses on developing business-oriented economic courses and serves as Director for the School for New Learning at the O'Hare Campus. He is also a francophone writer (he writes in French) whose first novel, Il pleut des larmes (It's raining tears), comes out in Paris in the fall 2006.
Email:
lcomeau@depaul.edu
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Cook, Zachary (Visiting Faculty)
Zachary Cook has taught political science full-time at DePaul since 2006. Previously he was an instructor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. A native of New Orleans, he did his undergraduate work at Williams College in Massachusetts and his graduate work at Northwestern University, IL. Cook's professional interests include campaigns and elections, political parties, and the American Presidency. He combines his teaching interests with experience volunteering for political candidates and parties at the local, state and national level.
Email:
zcook@depaul.edu
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Cowin, Halina (Visiting Faculty)
Halina Cowin holds an MBA in Marketing and Management from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. She has 14 years of marketing experience
including six years of product management at Kimberly-Clark Corp. and has managed businesses including Huggies Diapers (Canada) and Cottonelle Bath Tissue.
Seven years of advertising experience was gained primarily conducting media
research at DDB Needham Worldwide. Halina is currently Director of Marketing in the not-for-profit sector for a chapter of Mothers & More and has conducted extensive community outreach programs.
Email:
cowinsnl@sbcglobal.net
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Davis, Nancy (AssociateProfessor)
Nancy Davis received a PhD and MA in History at the University of Michigan. She has lectured at Governors State and UIC. Her primary areas of interest are modern urban history and 19th century American history. She is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty.
Email:
ndavis@depaul.edu
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DeAngelis, Michael (Associate Professor)
Michael DeAngelis has two Master of Arts degrees in Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Radio-Television-Film, Critical & Cultural Studies. He has taught at SNL since 1989. He recently published an article on Roller Coaster technology and postmodernism, and he is working on a cultural history of film exhibition in the Chicago Loop from the 1940s to the present. He is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty and Director, Undergraduate Program, Loop Campus.
Email:
mdeangel@depaul.edu
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Delgado, Mary (Visiting Faculty)
Mary Delgado is currently a teacher with the Milwaukee Public Schools and a veteran teacher of 30 years with experience in English as a Second Language and cross-cultural education. For the past five years Mary has been an adjunct professor with Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, as a facilitator and creator of online courses. She has worked with Milwaukee Public School teachers in creating and designing their own online courses. Ms. Delgado is president of her business INTERNET CREATIONS, devoted to the creation and design of quality online courses and to challenging discussions on the philosophy and application of online learning.
Email:
marycreations60@yahoo.com
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DiGennaro, John (Visiting Faculty)
John DiGennaro is a member of the Learning Practice of Marsh, a
division of Marsh and McLennan (MMC), the world's largest risk
management and insurance broker. He is leading elearning design and
development for the Midwest region as well as heading the Midwest,s
region graduate training program. He is actively engaged in several
firm-wide strategic learning initiatives. His experience includes
working as a Graduate Assistant at the University of Texas-Pan American
Center for Distance Learning, working as an outside consultant on
online learning as well as teaching at the university and secondary
school level. He has a Bachelor Science in Education and a Master of
Education. He is married with two children, Alex and Sarah, and lives
in Cleveland, Ohio.
Email:
jjdigennaro@aol.com
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Downing, Kevin (Associate Professor)
Kevin Downing is a member of SNL’s Resident Faculty. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in Astronomy and Geology from the University of Illinois at Urbana, a Master’s degree in Geology and Education from the University of Florida, and a Ph.D. in Geoscience and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Arizona. He is currently researching mammalian evolutionary and diversity patterns expressed in the fossil records of the Western U.S., East Africa, and Indonesia.
Email:
kdowning@depaul.edu
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Dumbleton, Molly (Visiting Faculty)
Molly Dumbleton has a B.A. from Oberlin College, an M.A. from Rice University, and an M.A. in Creative Writing from Northwestern University. She is a freelance writer and editor and Senior Managing Editor of a small publishing house in Evanston, IL.
Email:
SNLdumbleton@att.net
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Elster, Nanette (Visiting Faculty)
Nanette Elster is a partner at Spence & Elster, P.C., a Chicago-area law firm working in the area of infertility law. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a law degree from Loyola University School of Law, and a Master of Public Health degree from Boston University School of Public Health. Ms. Elster has extensive experience in legal and ethical issues related to health care. She has been on faculty at the Institute for Health, Law and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Medicine, and Chicago-Kent Law School. She has spoken nationally and internationally and is the author of numerous articles on genetic and reproductive health with a particular focus on the legal and ethical implications, including, “Regulating Reproductive Technologies,” (with Lori Andrews), in the Journal of Legal Medicine 1 ; “Less is More: The Risks of Multiple Births,” in Fertility and Sterility; “ARTistic License: Should Assisted Reproductive Technologies be Regulated?” in ART: Today and Beyond, Eds. Christopher DeJonge and Christopher Barratt;“Stem Cell Research: Ethical Issues for Women in Donating Eggs and Embryos,” in Human Rights; and “HIV and ART: Reproductive Choices and Challenges,” 19 The Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy (2003).
Email:
profelster@sbcglobal.net
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Feil, Ken (Visiting Faculty)
Ken Feil has been teaching media studies courses since 1992 and is currently Scholar-in-Residence in the Department of Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College. He earned his Ph.D. in Radio-Television-Film at The University of Texas at Austin. Ken is the author of Dying for a Laugh: Disaster Movies and the Camp Imagination (Wesleyan University Press, 2006), numerous articles and reviews. Ken has also written (alone and in collaboration) several films and Public Service Announcements. He is currently co-writing and co-editing the film The Validation Legacy as well as authoring a book on American comedies of the 1960s and 1970s.
Email:
feil.courses@gmail.com
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FitzPatrick, Kristin (Visiting Faculty)
Kristin FitzPatrick has a B.A. in Media Arts from Michigan State, an M.A. in
Writing from DePaul, and is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from
California State University, Fresno. In addition to teaching the Writing
Workshop and grading writing proficiency exams for SNL, she works as an adjunct
English instructor for CSUF. Previously she taught writing at Wayne State
University and Davenport University, as well as English conversation at a
language school in Japan. In 2006, she served as a judge for the NCTE
Achievement Awards in Writing for high school juniors. She is also a freelance
writer for several educational publishers.
Email:
KFITZPA6@depaul.edu
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Galarza, Luis (Assistant Professor)
Luis Galarza has worked in the areas of instructional technology and communication for university and corporate training. He holds a doctoral degree in education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His
areas of interest and research include distance education, technology, and the use of media for education purposes. Before coming to DePaul, he worked as a special assistant for training at Cemex Corporation. He is an associate of Organization Deployment Network, where he serves as a consultant for training and technology.He is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty.
Email:
galarzasnl@gmail.com
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Gannon-Cook, Ruth (Assistant Professor)
Ruth received her Ed.D. from the University of Houston, College of Education,Curriculum & Instruction with a major in Instructional Technology (2003). She also received a Certificate for Advanced Studies from the Queens College, Cambridge, United Kingdom with an emphasis in Change Diffusion and Technology Integration. Her M.S. Ed. in Educational Administration and B. A. in Business are both from Loyola University, New Orleans. She currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Cordell Hull Foundation for International Education, New York, and is a Judging Panel Coordinator for the International Student Media Festival of AECT.
Ruth taught adult learners applications of technology courses at the University of Houston System for seven years, and her teaching has included education, commerce, marketing and media courses. She also served as Interim Director of Distance Education (University of Houston-Clear Lake, 1992) at the University Provost's request. Prior experience includes community college Program Directing, teaching, and business and media consulting. She is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty.
Email:
rgannonc@depaul.edu
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Gilbert-Levin, Renee (Assistant Professor)
Renee Gilbert-Levin is a member of SNL's Resident Faculty. She has been with SNL for more than 16 years, with experience in its BA and MA programs. Her background is interdisciplinary and includes graduate work in Comparative Literature and Writing as well as in cognition and learning. Her doctoral work at Northwestern University focused on metacognition and learning strategies in the adult learner. She is currently Resident Faculty Coordinator of Writing and Critical Thinking at SNL.She is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty.
Email:
rgilbert@depaul.edu
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Gilmore, Gregory (Visiting Faculty)
Gregory Gilmore earned his Master’s Degree in Economic Development and International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, He has more that 25 years experience as a CEO and consultant.
Email:
profgregdp@yahoo.com
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Gitelson, Jonathan (Visiting Faculty)
Jonathan received a BA in literature from Marlboro College in 1997 and completed his MFA at Columbia College Chicago in 2004. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Canada and Europe and is in the permanent collection of various institutions that include The Museum of Contemporary Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, The Milwaukee Art Museum and The Museum of Modern Art New York. Jonathan has been the recipient of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship, The Puffin Foundation Fellowship and the City of Chicago Community Arts Assistance Program. His work has been published in various publications including Camera Austria (Graz), Intersection Magazine (London) and is currently completing a permanent public art commission for the Chicago Transit Authority (Armitage Brown Line Station, May 2008).
Email:
jon@thegit.net
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Goryl, Kathleen (Visiting Faculty)
Kathleen Goryl has an MBA from Loyola University. Her expertise is in marketing, health care policy and management, and entrepreneurship.
She has worked for over 15 years in business and healthcare management, in both privately held companies as well as not-for-profit companies. In 1999, Ms. Goryl started her own marketing consulting practice. She teaches courses in business, public health and health care administration.
Email:
KGORYL@depaul.edu
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Goushegir, Ezzat (Visiting Faculty)
Ezzat Goushegir, received her M.F.A from the Theater Department of the
University of Iowa, is a playwright, author and film critic. she has published
four books (in Farsi), including two collections of short stories “The Woman,
the Room, and Love”- “… And suddenly the leopard cried: WOMAN”, a collection of
two plays “Metamorphosis and Maryam’s Pregnancy”, and “Migration in the sun”, a
book of poetry. Her plays have been produced by a variety of theater companies
including Maryam’s pregnancy, which won a Richard Maibaum award and Behind the
curtains, recipient at a Norman Felton award. Among her many activities, she is
a regular contributor to literary journals, and her writings has appeared in
publications in Iran, France, Germany, and Canada. In 1990 she was a Fellow
Writer in the Iowa City International Writing Program and in 1992 contributed in
the Second Conference of International Women’s Playwrights in Canada. She is the
member of “The Dramatists Guild of America” and “The Association of Writers and
Writing Program”.
Email:
goushegir@yahoo.com
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Greenberg, Michelle (Visiting Faculty)
Michelle Greenberg received her B.A. in English from Queens College, New York and her M.A. in American History from University of Wisconsin-Madison. After graduate school, she pursued a career as a journalist, working as an editorial writer for WCVB-TV in Boston and later as Assistant Press Secretary to the New York State Attorney General. Since 1986, Ms. Greenberg has taught college-level writing and critical thinking skills in Northwestern University’s School of Continuing Education. Currently, in addition to teaching for SNL, she teaches a team-taught course offered by Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering, called Engineering, Design, and Communication. Ms. Greenberg also is affiliated with the Illinois School of Professional Psychology, where she edits dissertations.
Email:
M-Greenberg@northwestern.edu
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Gudmundsson, Marianne (Visiting Faculty)
Marianne Gudmundsson received her B.S. in Biology from Loyola University of Chicago and her M.S. in Biology from De Paul University, with a focus on reproductive endocrinology. For several years, Marianne was a research assistant for Donald A. Rowley in the Department of Immunology at the University of Chicago, focusing on tumor suppression and the role of TNF in murine models. She received her secondary education certification through De Paul University, and has been teaching all grade levels of Biology and Chemistry since 1989 at Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, IL. She currently serves as a co-team leader for the Advanced Placement Biology Team and has been involved in curriculum development for all levels of Biology at GBS. Marianne is a member of the Illinois Education Association, National Association for Biology Teachers, and National Science Teacher's Association.
Email:
mdamiani@depaul.edu
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Hemmerling, John (Visiting Faculty)
John Hemmerling is an Academic Advisor for the School and is a coordinator for the program at two of DePaul’s suburban campuses. He has a B.S. in Mathematics from Chicago State University and is certified to teach math in grades six through twelve. He has taught a Practical Math and Applied Algebra course at SNL for several years and has taught many levels of High School math as well. He is currently specializing in Math Education at the MA program of DePaul University.
Email:
jhemmerl@depaul.edu
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Hess, Mary (Visiting Faculty)
Mary Hess teaches American history and literature at Rochester Institute of Technology. She also taught at SUC Geneseo and other schools at both the primary and secondary levels. Her subject areas are Women's History, Modern America, African American History and History of the American South. She has been a film critic for Magill's Cinema Annual and also teaches film and film history. Hess received her B.A. in English from the University of Buffalo in 1989 and her M.A. in American History from Michigan State University in 1999. She is presently
completing her Ph.D. at the University of Buffalo. She believes that an interdisciplinary focus is the most honest way to assess American history and culture, and enjoys using that approach in both her face-to-face classes and distance education.
Email: hessmary@rochester.rr.com
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Hightower, Linda (Visiting Faculty)
Linda Hightower serves as a Professor and as the Chair of the Department of Visual Arts in the School of the Arts at Kennesaw State University since July 2003. Dr. Hightower returns to Atlanta after approximately 10 years in New York. She founded Ariel gallery in Atlanta, which was open from
1985-1999. She also founded The North Arts Center Gallery now called the Spruill Gallery of the Spruill Art Center in Dunwoody, GA. She has served in administration with Shorter College in GA, with Mississippi State University
in MS, and with Rochester Institution of Technology and during her tenure at this Institutions of Higher Learning she has taught in both Art History and Studio.
Email:
amartarch@bellsouth.net
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Holton, Deborah (Associate Professor)
Deborah Wood Holton received her undergraduate degree in Theatre and Drama with emphasis in playwriting from Howard University, and earned her doctorate in American Theatre Studies and Art History from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She holds a Masters in English, with emphasis in African American and African literature from Atlanta University. She has written about playwrights Lorraine Hansberry and Eugene O'Neill, and about the African American experience and culture within the African diaspora. A world-traveling fiction writer and poet herself, Dr. Holton is a resident faculty member at SNL.
Email:
dholton@depaul.edu
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Holtz, Jennifer (Assistant Professor)
Jennifer K. Holtz, Ph.D., recently returned to her native Chicagoland after spending the past decade teaching and conducting both health services and medical education research with the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita. Her areas of particular interest are: aging and everything that goes along with it; the actual act of research and characteristics of researchers; medical and research ethics, and how creativity affects both teaching and learning. She’s currently developing courses for DePaul in each of those areas for both distance and on-campus learners. Her doctorate is in Adult, Continuing and Occupational Education, emphasis research education, her Master’s is in Gerontology with clinical emphasis, and her Bachelor’s is in Biology with emphasis in human biology.
Email:
jholtz@depaul.edu
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Johnson, Kathryn (Assistant Professor)
Kathryn Johnson, PhD, is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty. Her doctoral work was in sociology and criminology. She was a formerly an Associate Professor and Assistant Dean at Barat College.
Email:
kjohns15@depaul.edu
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Kadwani, Shirin (Assistant Director)
Shirin Kadwani has a BS in Information Systems and a MS in Public Services Management from DePaul University. She holds PMP (Project Management Professional) and CAPM (Certified Associate in Project Management) Credentials from Project Management Institute.
She is the Assistant Director of Operations and Planning at SNL's Center for Distance Education. She manages administrative systems and has extensive knowledge in project management, web-design, data analysis and database management.
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Kahdeman, Tyler (Visiting Faculty)
Tyler D. Kahdeman actively works in the real estate industry and higher education. Ty’s career as a realtor informs his teaching practice and his educational research which focuses upon ethics, urban development, and social inequality. Ty is a member of the American Educational Research Association and has presented his dissertation research at the History of Education Society’s regional meeting in Evanston, Illinois. Experienced as a keynote speaker, he speaks publicly and passionately about social transformation. His forthcoming book, Social Conflict and Educational Change, (available September, 2007 exclusively through Barnes and Noble) examines the history of educational inequality and the social conflicts which preceded educational reform. The premise of his book posits that not only is social conflict necessary, but beneficial to a Democratic society. His book examines, for example, how desegregation of public schools in the 1960s and 1970s was preceded by nonviolent social conflict as part of the Civil Rights Movement. His previous research interests include the history and sociology of the high school dropout phenomenon, gentrification, and problems in the history of urban education, race, and inequality.
He teaches Social Justice, Social and Historical Issues in Education, Philosophical Issues in Education, and Graduate level Research Methodology as an adjunct professor in the School of Education at DePaul University in Lincoln Park, Illinois. He is located in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and Research at DePaul. He also teaches Business Ethics, online, as a Visiting Professor at DePaul’s School for New Learning.
Prior to joining the faculty at DePaul University and Robert Morris College he was Manager of Institutional Assessment at Keller Graduate School of Management directing internal and external research activities. He started his career in higher education at DePaul University as the Assistant Director of the Graduate School of Business, one of the top ten part-time business schools in the United States. While at DePaul’s KGSB he became affiliated with the School of New Learning by working as a Professional Advisor. He was attracted to SNL because he is, proudly, a “first generation” college graduate.
In addition to a Doctorate in Education from DePaul University, he earned an M.B.A. from New Mexico State University, an M.A. from Webster University, and has 15 plus years of business experience in banking, finance, and real estate. His undergraduate degree is a B.S.B.A. from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Email:
tkahdema@depaul.edu
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Khalsa, Japa (Visiting Faculty)
Dr.Japa K.Khalsa received a Bachelor of Science in Theater from Northwestern University in Chicago and completed her Masters of Oriental Medicine at the Midwest College in Chicago. She is a National Diplomate of Herbology and Acupuncture and is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine in New Mexico. Dr. Khalsa is in training to be a minister of Sikh Dharma because of her dedication to service projects for the public and to the Sikh way of life.Before moving to New Mexico she worked at Ernst & Young LLP for 5 years as a Technical Consultant. She is also an internationally certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher and is in a group practice of alternative healthcare practioners in Espanola, NM.
Email:
drjapa@gmail.com
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Khan, Mohammad (Visiting Faculty)
Email: databasekhan@yahoo.com
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Khananu, Zaya (Visiting Faculty)
Zaya Khananu has been the System Support Coordinator with the School for New Learning since October 2002. He earned his Masters Degree in Telecommunication Systems from DePaul University in June 2005. He has successfully completed his Certificate program in Local Area Networking from DePaul University in March 2004. Zaya has designed and administered the online S-5 Information Technology Proficiency Test since September 2001. He taught Introduction to PC and Applications at Harry Truman College for more that three years in Continuing Education Department. Zaya has extensive experience with both the Windows and Apple environments and Applications compatibility. He intends to continue his education by starting his doctoral program at DePaul University in 2006.
Email:
zkhananu@depaul.edu
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Kimsey, John (Associate Professor)
John Kimsey received his PhD in English from the University of Illinois and is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty. He teaches and writes about modern literature and popular culture and has also worked as a professional musician.
jkimsey@depaul.edu
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Kozlowski, Phyllis (Visiting Faculty)
Phyllis Kozlowski, PhD, serves as Chair of the Fine Arts and Humanities department at Moraine Valley Community College where she teaches both art history and studio courses. She is past president of the Illinois Art Education Association and Vice President of the National Art Education Association. She is a volunteer docent with several organizations in Chicago and gives architecture tours of the city. She also exhibits professionally as an artist. Her work is in a number of corporate collections.
Email:
drpkoz44@yahoo.com
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Kutty, Nina (Visiting Faculty)
Nina Kutty earned her BA from Vanderbilt University, her MA in English from Loyola University Chicago, and her MA in Creative Writing from Northwestern University. She worked as a financial advisor for a brokerage firm, a freelance writer, and a features editor for a monthly magazine before teaching composition and writing full time.
Email:
ninakutty@hotmail.com
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Lash, David (Visiting Faculty)
David Lash is currently a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies. He holds a Master's degree (Univ. Of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) and Bachelor's degree (Southern Illinois University) in Computer Science and has completed PhD course work (but not dissertation) at IIT.
Email:
dlash@condor.depaul.edu
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Lawrence, Elvrid (Visiting Faculty)
Yirser Ra Hotep (Elvrid Lawrence) Has a Masters degree in Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago. He has over 25 years of experience as a master practitioner and instructor of Yoga and Tai Chi . He has developed a practice as a stress management consultant through his company, YogaSkills Stress Management and Wellness Consultants. Through YogaSkills he provides stress reduction and wellness services for a variety of corporate and public sector clients and individuals. He has presented workshops, lectures and demonstrations through out the U.S.the Caribbean and Africa. During 2001 he was featured in Ebony magazine, Chicago Parent Magazine, the Chicago Tribune Newspaper, WGN Television and ABC Television for his work with Yoga in the African American community and for pre-school children and those with special needs. He has produced a set of instructional Yoga videotapes, meditation audiotapes and is the author of a soon to be released book on Yoga.
Email:
yogaskills@msn.com
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LoSardo, Betta (Director, Oak Forest)
Betta LoSardo holds an AM from Middlebury College in Italian Studies. She has also studied at the Universita' di Firenze, and at the Angelicum University in Rome. She is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty and Director, Suburban Programs, Oak Forest Campus.
Email:
blosardo@depaul.edu
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Martin, Akilah (Instructor)
Akilah Martin is a visiting assistant professor at SNL and earned her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Purdue University. Her teaching and
research interests include enhancing soil and water quality through education and promotion of its awareness locally, nationally, and globally.
Email:
amarti80@depaul.edu
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Matamonasa , Arieahn (Visiting Faculty )
Arieahn Matamonasa is a member of the SNL visiting faculty with a Ph.D.
in Clinical Psychology
Email:
amatamo1@depaul.edu
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McDermott, Dana (Assistant Professor)
Dana McDermott, Ph.D., CFLE is an assistant professor at the School for
New Learning. She received her B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. from Loyola
University of Chicago in Human Development and Social Psychology. She is also a nationally certified family life educator. She has worked for over two decades in the Chicago area, nationally and internationally in the area of parent and family development. In Chicago she has been involved in minority parent leadership and in implementing parent education programs for children in schools from K-12 and for their parents. She serves on a national board (parentingproject.org) dedicated
to "preparing tomorrow's parents today." She consults with schools
and parent groups in the areas of teaching caring, social and emotional
development of children and violence prevention. She is also a member
of the National and Illinois Councils on Family Relations, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, The Southern Poverty Law Center and The Character Education Partnership.
Email:
dmcderm2@depaul.edu
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McGury, Susan (AssociateProfessor)
Susan McGury is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty. She earned an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana. She received a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Reading, Berks, UK. Recent publications include articles on Bernini, on reconsiderations of scholarship in the Academy, and on using reflection as a tool for critical thinking.
Email:
smcgury@snlonline.net
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Milsap, Cynthia (Visiting Faculty)
Cynthia R. Milsap has an M.S. in Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and is a doctoral candidate in Education at Northern Illinois University. She is an Egan Community Scholar and coordinator, PRAG Black Church Research Project.
Email:
crmilsap@aol.com
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Mirza, Zoaib (Visiting Faculty)
Zoaib Mirza is Founder,CEO and President Chicago Chapter of www.promoteeducation.com. He is currently completing his graduation in Adult and Continuing Education from DePaul University with a focus in Instructional Technology and Adult Education. He graduated from DePaul University in 2004 with a Masters of Science in Information Systems. He completed his Bachelors of Science in Computing with Honors from Staffordshire University in United Kingdom. He is a full time Distance Technology Specialist and a part time faculty member at the School for New Learning. He has worked in the areas of Information Systems, E-commerce and Database Design. He has worked as a web master, teacher and visiting faculty. He has taught both in the campus-based classroom and the online classroom. Mr. Mirza has designed and developed “Web Programming 1 and 2” courses for secondary grade students at Maria High School and the “Database design and Implementation for Small Business Applications” and "Internet Applications for Small Businesses" courses for undergraduate adult students at School for New Learning. One of his personal goals is to design Information Technology courses for adult students with diverse or no IT background so they can cope with the ever changing technology applications in the workplace.
Email:
zmirza@depaul.edu
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Mohr, Michele (Visiting Faculty)
Michele Mohr graduated from SNL in 1996 and earned an M.A. in Writing from DePaul University. A fulltime
faculty member at Morton College, she teaches courses in rhetoric, creative writing, and journalism, and directs the college's Writing Center.
Email:
m_mohr@yahoo.com
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Monaghan, Patricia (Associate Professor)
Patricia Monaghan did her doctoral work in science and literature at
The Union Institute; she teaches ecology, physics and creativity classes at SNL. Her many publications include three books of poetry, most recently "Dancing with Chaos," which is based on chaos theory (www.salmonpoetry.com). She was recently selected for inclusion in the "Best American Spiritual Writing 2004" for her ssay, "Physics and Grief." Although she now lives in Beverly, a tree-shaded neighborhood on Chicago's Southwest Side, she grew up in Alaska and leads SNL travel-study courses to study the ecology and native traditions of her home state. She holds dual Irish and American citizenship and recently published "The Red-Haired Girl from the Bog: The Landscape of Irish Myth
and Spirit" (New World Library) and "The Encyclopedia of Celtic Myth and Legend" (Facts on File).
Email:
pmonagha@depaul.edu
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Mora, Maria (Visiting Faculty)
Maria F. Mora obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Comparative Literature with an emphasis in French and Italian Literature. She then obtained her Juris Doctorate degree from Chicago-Kent College of Law. For the past several years she has practiced law in the public interest sector, where her practice primarily consisted of family law. In her practice of family law, she has dealt with issues involving paternity disputes, custody disputes, domestic violence and division of property issues. She has also handled cases in employment law, housing law, public benefits law, and consumer law.
Email:
MMORA2@depaul.edu
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Mosha, Ray (Instructor)
Raymond Sambuli Mosha is a member of the SNL resident faculty. He earned an
MA in Theology from the State University of New York, at Maryknoll School of
Theology, an MA in Education from Seton Hall University., and an MA in
Spirituality and PhD in Philosophy from Duquesne University.
Email:
rmosha@depaul.edu
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Moulden, Phillip (Visiting Faculty)
Throughout all the twists and turns in his life, Phillip’s mission has remained that of assisting people in thinking and acting creatively. Thirty-seven years ago he left Oblong, Illinois, and entered Eastern Illinois University to become a high school teacher. He graduated with a B.S. in Education, but by then he had decided to go to seminary. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary on the campus of Northwestern University. After spending four years in parish ministry for the United Methodist Church (UMC) in southern Illinois, he returned to the Chicago area and completed a Master of Arts in Historical Theology at Loyola University. He also completed a Master of Science in Management from National-Louis University (NLU). Currently, he is enrolled in the Doctoral Program in Adult and Continuing Education at NLU.
In spite of his educational background, he spent twenty-one years working for the General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of the UMC in Evanston, Illinois. The last ten of those years were spent mostly as a corporate trainer.
About ten years ago he began working as an adjunct faculty member of NLU. Two years ago he also became an adjunct faculty member of Benedictine University and Lewis University. Phillip has taught courses in Logic, Ethics, Management, and Mediterranean History. In these universities he has mostly taught working adults returning to college after years away.
Email:
pcmoulden@comcast.net
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Murphey, Joan (Visiting Faculty)
Joan Murphey, Ed.D., is Assistant Dean for Advising and Admission at
SNL. earned her Ed.D. from Northern Illinois University in Adult and
Continuing Education. Her dissertation on self-directed learning received the award for best research at the Adult Education Research Conference. She has published a chapter on "Data Surveys" in Business
Survey Methods (Wiley & Sons, 1995), and she has presented research at
the American Association of Public Opinion Research, the American
Statistical Association and and the American Psychological Association.
Email:
joanmarkm@sbcglobal.net
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Murphy, Doug (Visiting Faculty)
Doug Murphy is Assistant Dean for Information and Technology at SNL. He has been a member of the SNL visiting faculty since 1992. In addition to leading Learning Assessment Seminar, he teaches Exploring the Internet and Writing and Editing a Newsletter. His M.A. with a focus in academic strategic planning was earned through SNL.
Email:
dmurphy@depaul.edu
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Navarre Cleary, Michelle (Assistant Professor)
Michelle Navarre Cleary is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature and Theory from Northwestern University.
mnavarr9@depaul.edu
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Ní Bhuachalla, Siobhán (Visiting Faculty)
Siobhán Ní Bhuachalla has spent her entire career working in the healthcare/health policy arena. Her experience covers international patient advocacy, creating mechanisms for access to medicines and clinical trials in developing countries, and the development of public-private partnerships among industry, government and NGOs to enhance access to care. In her career, she focuses on integrating healthcare policy information with hands on clinical education to address diverse public health issues such as methods to recruit volunteers for clinical trials of vaccines against bioterror weapons and prevention of STDs. She currently works on projects to address the increasing burden of chronic diseases in developing countries. She has a degree in Law from the National University of Ireland (Dublin Campus). She earned her Masters degree in Public Health, with an emphasis on epidemiology, from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Email:
snibhuachalla@comcast.net
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Oleniczak, Kate (Assistant Director)
Kate Oleniczak is an Assistant Director for DePaul University's SNL Center for Distance Education. She manages Marketing, Course Scheduling, Finance, and External Relations for the Center. Formerly, Kate served as an Academic Advisor for Distance Education students. She has a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Notre Dame and an M.Ed. in Higher Education, Human Services and Counseling from DePaul University. Email:
kolenicz@depaul.edu
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Opitz, Donald (Assistant Professor)
Donald Opitz is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty. He earned his BS in physics and mathematics from DePaul University and his PhD in History of Science from the University of Minnesota. He writes and teaches on interdisciplinary
topics in mathematics and the sciences.
Email: dopitz@depaul.edu
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Pavao-Zuckerman, Mitchell (Visiting Faculty)
Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman is a member of SNL’s Visiting Faculty. He holds a Ph.D. in Ecology from the University of Georgia, a M.S. in Plant and Soil Sciences from the University of Tennessee, and a B.A. in Environmental Studies from S.U.N.Y. Binghamton. Mitch is a Research Associate in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He is an ecosystem ecologist who is interested in global change and human dominated ecosystems. He is particularly interested in the ecology of cities, the sustainability of ecosystem services in human-dominated systems, and the responses of biogeochemical cycles to global change. He is also working at the intersection of ecological and social sciences to develop an integrated understanding of human ecosystems, and is interested in environmental philosophy and ethics.
Email: eco_polis@yahoo.com
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Powers, Noreen (Visiting Faculty)
Noreen A. Powers earned a Master's in Education from DePaul University. Her thesis was in "Adult Learners and Technology". She is also pursuing a ED.d. in education and plans to study Distance Learning with Adult Learners. She has been a member of the Visting Faculty at DePaul University for the past seven years. She currently teaches College Writing, Critical Thinking, Research Seminar and Learning Assessment Seminar.
Her commitment to academic excellence and adult learners is apparent in her experience as well as her academic pursuits. She is a lifelong learner and educator, one of her personal goals is to have a positive impact on students and curriculum. As a visting faculty member, she has the opportunity to attain her goal.
Email:
norpowers@sbcglobal.net
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Radlowski, Cecilia (Visiting Faculty)
Cecelia Radlowski is working as a research scientist. She has held research positions in a number of industrial laboratories. She also has experience teaching science and chemistry at the high school, junior college, and undergraduate level. She has a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Kent State University.
Email:
cradlows@depaul.edu
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Rapp, Anne (Visiting Faculty)
Anne Rapp is the Service Learning Coordinator at SNL. She is a doctoral candidate in U.S. History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her dissertation is titled: Four Women for Social Justice: Race, Gender and American Politics, 1940-1980. Her research interests include the history of social activism in the U.S., including the feminist and civil rights movements, as well as the history of poverty and public policy.
Email:
ARAPP@depaul.edu
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Reed, Susan (Visiting Faculty)
Susan C. Reed, Ph.D. is Associate Professor at DePaul University, School
for New Learning where she teaches a variety of courses including urban health
policy. She pursues an active research agenda in that area and has published
in several journals and book series on the distribution of long-term care services
in cities. In 1990, Susan Reed received a doctorate from the Department of Human
Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University where she participated
in a panel study of persons with chronic mental illness. Before 1990, Susan
was an instructor for the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Urban Studies
Program in Chicago. Susan lives on the north side of Chicago with her husband
and two teenage daughters.
Email:
sreed@depaul.edu
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Richine, Jean (Visiting Faculty)
Jean Marie Richine has been teaching at the School for New Learning for many years. She has taught in the LifeLong Learning area, including Learning Assessment Seminar, Critical Thinking and Research Seminar. In addition to teaching, she has extensive experience as an academic advisor in the school. She has also taught in DePaul’s School of Education, undergraduate courses in Philosophy of Education and graduate students seeking teaching certification and advanced certificates. Her work also includes supervision of student-teaching in the Chicago Public Schools.
Jean has a Bachelor Degree in Liberal Arts from DePaul University, Master Degree in Educational Leadership from University of Illinois-Chicago and is a Doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois-Chicago in Education and Curriculum. She has worked as assistant editor on the American Educational Research Journal, Social and Institutional Analysis. Her research interests include teacher education, teacher certification/alternative teacher certification, school policy and administration.
Email:
jrichine@depaul.edu
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Royster, Lynn (Visiting Faculty)
Lynn Royster earned her B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, her M.A. in Communication and Rhetoric from Prescott College,
her J.D. from George Washington University, and her Ph.D. in Conflict Resolution and Rhetoric from the Union Institute. She has worked as a lawyer and a legal editor and is currently a practicing mediator. She enjoys all kinds of writing and has published poetry, a children's book, short stories, and nonfiction articles. She is also the Advisor for SNL's Chronic Illness Initiative.
Email:
lroyster@depaul.edu
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Rubin, Beth (Assistant Professor)
Beth Rubin is a member of the resident faculty at SNL, and is the director of the Center for Distance Education. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University and a B.A. in Psychology from Cornell. She has taught at LeMoyne College, Syracuse University and the University of Manitoba in Canada, where she won the Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching and spearheaded the Aboriginal
Access Program and Multicultural Human Resource Strategies competition. She left tenure behind for the online world, working for Cardean University and DeVry
University Online. She has developed many courses in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, managed faculty, directed curriculum, led assessment
activities, and led back-end operations to support 1,300 courses every eight weeks. She conducts research on the factors that make distance education successful.
Email: brubin1@depaul.edu
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Schmidt, Kathleen (Visiting Faculty)
Schmidt, Kathleen (Visiting Faculty) A graduate of the SNL Program, Kathleen Schmidt has been teaching writing courses at SNL for seven years. Since 2003 her focus has been on the Distance Ed Program at SNL teaching College Writing, Creative Writing, Critical Thinking and Professional Business Writing. Ms. Schmidt is an international executive business writing coach and holds a graduate degree from Northwestern University. In 2004 she spent 7 months in Beijing, China teaching executives from Nokia, World Bank, and other Beijing-based companies professional writing skills, Western style. Her writings have been published in Crain's Chicago Business Magazine, Time Inc.'s Specialty Financial Publications, The Daily Herald, and Marketing News (trade publication) among others.
Email:
kschmid2@depaul.edu
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Simpson, David (Visiting Faculty)
David Simpson received his PhD in English and Comparative Literature at
Columbia University and has served on the faculty in English and humanities
at
Columbia and Northwestern. His academic interests include classical and
Renaissance studies, American culture, media studies, professional
communication, and intellectual history. A former member of the Chicago
Board Options Exchange, he has served as a consultant in business writing
and technical stock-market analysis
and has written articles and reviews on topics ranging from jazz and cinema
to slang and cyberculture. He has served on the visiting faculty at SNL
since 1990.
Email:
dsimpson@depaul.edu
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Sims, Cynthia (Visiting Faculty)
Cynthia Sims has served as a visiting faculty member in the School for New Learning since 1995. She has also taught for Northern Illinois University, Moraine Valley Community College, and Waubonsee Community College, and she has several years of higher education administration experience. Cynthia' s educational background includes an Ed.D. in Adult & Higher Education, M.A. in Social Work, and an M.S. in Public Service Management.
Email:
csims1@depaul.edu
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Skelley, Michael (Associate Professor)
Michael Skelley has been a resident faculty member since 1993. He has a master's degree in Biblical Studies (Catholic U., 1979), a doctoral degree in Religious Studies (Boston College, 1987) and a master's degree in Organization Development (Loyola U. Chicago, 1993). One of his long-time interests has been exploring how we can develop and integrate spirituality in the contemporary workplace.
Email:
mskelley@depaul.edu
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Skorupa, Kenn (Visiting Faculty)
Kenn Skorupa has been on the staff of the college since 1990 and is currently an Assistant Director in Advising Services. He has been the Chair of the Adult Learner Commission in the National Academic Advising Association and has presented at numerous advising related conferences. Kenn has designed and taught several courses for the college including two current offerings, "Connecting Thought and Behavior in the Workplace, the Community and in Your Personal Life" and "Male Identity in Transition". His academic background is in the areas of Psychology and Gender Issues and he has presented at Men's conferences around the country. Kenn also teaches the Learning Assessment Seminar.
Email:
kskorupa@depaul.edu
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Sorenson, Matthew (Visiting Faculty)
Dr. Sorenson is a faculty member in the Department of Nursing at DePaul. He also holds an appointment in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He has a Bachelor of Science (Nursing) from Northern Illinois University and Master of Science degrees in Applied Family and Child Studies and Nursing from that same institution. He received his doctorate from Loyola University Chicago in 2002, with a dissertation that examined stress related variance in immune function in individuals with multiple sclerosis. Currently, he is completing a National Institutes of Heath funded study examining the relationships among stress, immune function and brain lesions in those with multiple sclerosis. In 2005, he completed a three year post-doctoral fellowship in the Neurology Service at Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital. Dr. Sorenson is also a graduate of the Summer Genetic Institute conducted by the National Institutes of Health. His clinical background is in psychiatric nursing and physical rehabilitation, where he has worked primarily with individuals with spinal cord injuries and other neurological conditions. His research focuses on the ties between stress and disease progression in those with multiple sclerosis, with interests that include stress and coping.
Email:
msorenso@depaul.edu
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Sorsa, Donald (Visiting Faculty)
Don Sorsa's graduate education was at UIC and Northwestern University after completing undergrad work at the School for New Learning. The education and people at SNL exposed him to a world filled with interesting ideas and incredible opportunities. He hopes your experiences here are as joyful and rewarding as his.
Email:
dsorsa@gmail.com
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Spreter, Andrea (Visiting Faculty)
Andréa Spreter is Director of New Program Development at the University of
Virginia’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies in Charlottesville.
Prior to beginning her Ph.D. program, Andrea served as the Associate Director of
the Center for Distance Education at DePaul University's School for New
Learning. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, her M.A. degree
from DePaul and her BA degree from Pennsylvania State University. She has taught
both in the campus-based classroom and the online classroom. Her research
interests focus on the adult student, issues of access in higher education and
distance learning.
Email:
aspreter@depaul.edu
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Stanford, Ann (Professor)
Ann Folwell Stanford is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty. She has published articles on multi-ethnic women's literature as well as literature and medicine. She has a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Email:
astanfor@depaul.edu
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Steiger, David (Visiting Faculty)
David Steiger received a B.A. in Political Science and a Juris Doctor from Indiana University. He has been a licensed attorney for eleven years, and employed for the last several years by a multinational financial services corporation. He is an active member of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and has taught courses on issues surrounding globalization at SNL since 1999.
Email:
dave87iu@aol.com
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Stein, Hartwig (Instructor)
Hartwig Stein was born on the 13th of December 1962 in Düsseldorf, Germany. He studied social work at the Academy for Social Work in Stuttgart with practice in the social service of a high security jail. From 1991 to 1994 he studied Education Science with a specialty in adult education earning his Master in Education degree in 1994. Currently he is writing a doctoral thesis about a model of virtual university. He has consulted in the field of adult education, as a teacher in a virtual university and a public university in Guadalajara, Mexico. His areas of interest are the concept of virtual university and liberatory education.
Email:
hstein@depaul.edu
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Sullivan, Tom (Visiting Faculty)
Sullivan, Tom (Visiting Faculty) Tom Sullivan, MFA, is almost entirely retired, but he enjoys teaching on the Internet in the SNL program, so once or twice a year he rouses himself from retirement and essays another online class. Years ago when he was still a high-functioning and productive member of society, he was Director of the Writing Center and a professor of English at Moraine Valley Community College. He has an A.B. from the University of Michigan, an M.A. from the University of Iowa, an M.F.A. in Poetry from Wichita State University, and a Certificate in Artificial Intelligence from DePaul. He has written poems in English, and programs in several computer languages. He keeps a guitar on a stand in his living room, and practices taiji. He is a loyal supporter of the Chicago Fire soccer team.
Email:
t.h.sullivan@comcast.net
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Szczerba, Patricia (Visiting Faculty)
Pat teaches courses on website design, information technology productivity tools and the United Nations, including a study travel course where students attend the UN's annual three-day conference for affiliated nonprofit organizations. Each Spring Quarter she co-teaches a course on international trade via videoconferencing from United Nations headquarters. She has experience working with nonprofit organizations at the United Nations in New York City. She helped facilitate SNL's affiliation with the United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI) as a nonprofit organization in March 1997. Pat is editor of the Global Issues Section for The New York Times Almanac since 1999 where she writes on world health, world population, human rights, the United Nations, international organizations and the Nobel Prizes. From 1989 to 1998 she held the same position with The Universal Almanac. In 1999 The Universal Almanac was bought out by The New York Times Almanac. Pat currently manages DePaul's videoconference program with the United Nations.
Email:
pszczerb@condor.depaul.edu
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Tresser, Tom (Visiting Faculty)
Tom Tresser is a consultant, producer, educator and trainer works with individuals, companies and communities to leverage and amplify their creative assets in order to solve problems, create economic value and trigger civic engagement. He recently designed and produced training programs for the provincial government of Saskatchewan on how to use the arts and culture for local economic development. He has used creativity in the field of executive development, working with Fortune 500 companies on innovative and experiential strategic executive learning programs. During the Internet boom Tom served as a marketing director and community affairs manager for OurHouse.com, an e-commerce start-up. He was director of cultural development at Peoples Housing, in north Rogers Park, Chicago, where he created a community arts program that blended the arts, education and micro-enterprise. This work was funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the Chicago Community Trust, the Joyce Foundation and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation. Tom has acted in some 40 shows and produced over 100 plays, special events, festivals and community programs. He was an arts activist, having organized support for pro-arts candidates and developed a cultural policy think tank at Roosevelt University in the early 1990's, where he taught "Arts & Public Policy." He is an alumni of the Leadership Greater Chicago program. In 2003 he was appointed Visiting Fellow in Arts and Culture at the DePaul University College of Commerce's Ryan Center for Creativity and Innovation. Tom was elected to the Abraham Lincoln Elementary School's Local School Council and served from 2004 to 2006. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the 43rd Ward Independent Democratic Party Organization. He is teaching a number of classes on art, creativity and civic engagement for the School of the Art Institute and DePaul University.
Tom also consults with arts organizations on strategic planning, audience development and peer-to-peer marketing.
Email:
tom@tresser.com
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Trondsen, Norene (Visiting Faculty)
Norene H. Trondsen is a corporate e-learning manager/distance education
consultant. She designs, develops, facilitates and manages distance
learning/blended learning programs in a variety of topics, including new
employee orientation, Six Sigma, Project Management, and e-learner readiness
programs. She was formerly an award winning Art/Creative Director in the
Advertising/Marketing/Sales Promotion industry.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art (Graphic Design/Art History) from
Illinois State University, AGDDET (Advanced Graduate Diploma, Distance Education
Technologies) and MDE (Master of Distance Education) from Athabasca University,
Alberta, Canada
Email:
ntrondsen@wideopenwest.com
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Vaynberg, Lena (Visiting Faculty)
Yelena Vaynberg, B.A. Mathematics, Biology and Pychology Northwestern University 1998, M.S Mathematics Northwestern University 2001. Ms. Vaynberg has taught as visting professor at Dupage College IL, Wayne State University MI, Oakland University MI. Ms. Vaynberg has specialized in Distance and Online education programs for Colorado Technical University and Regis University in the areas of Mathematics and Business. Ms. Vaynberg is firmly committed to curricular development in distance and online education, providing students with classes that allow them to excel in thinking about, applying and reaching high levels of competency in mathematics.
Email:
yelena@math.wayne.edu
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Watanuki, Kumiko (Visiting Faculty)
Kumiko Watanuki holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Mundelein College, an MA in Organizational Development from Loyola University, and an MA in Social Anthropology from SOAS, University of London, and a Doctor of Education degree (Ed.D.) in Adult Education from National-Louis University, Chicago.. She has more than twenty years experience in the disciplines of executive training, organizational development, intercultural communications and human resources training and development.
Email:
kwatanuk@sbcglobal.net
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Waters, Linzy (Visiting Faculty)
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Wegierek, Anna Maria (Visiting Faculty)
Anna Maria Wegierek is a Clinical Psychologist and has worked as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and a teacher for more than a decade. She has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and her clinical research focuses on dual diagnosis (mental health and substance abuse). Her other areas of interest include the study of behavior, culture, gender, marriage and family dynamics psychology. Dr. Wegierek has a private practice that provides counseling and diagnostic testing services in several languages including Polish and English.
Email:
awegiere@depaul.edu
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Wellisch, Fred (Senior Director)
Fred Wellisch is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty. He has been a criminal defense lawyer, and taught in the Chicago Public Schools and at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. He received his B.A. and M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1969 and 1973 respectively and his J.D. from the John Marshall Law School in 1984. He is also a professional actor and has appeared at various Chicago theaters including Steppenwolf, Apple Tree and Court. He has taught the following courses: Foundations, Critical Thinking, Research Seminar, Law and Justice in Drama, and The Bill of Rights in Contemporary Life and Work.
Email:
fwellisc@depaul.edu
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Willets, John (Assistant Professor)
John Willets is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty. He earned a Ph.D. in Education Psychology and a M.Ed. in Counseling Psychology at the University of Illinois. His agenda of praxis finds its expression in community and group learning process where learning is fundamental to community action.
Email:
john@willets.us
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Wills, Shana (Visiting Faculty)
Shana Wills is the Director for Refugee & Immigrant Community Services at Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights. She earned an M.A. in African Studies, with a focus in international human rights and social movements, from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a B.A. in African Studies from DePaul’s School for New Learning. Shana sits on the Africa Region Committee of American Friends Service Committee, and has extensive domestic and international experience in grassroots advocacy and development assistance. Previous work has included the establishment of a school for street kids in Angola, street outreach casework for the homeless in Chicago, and movement organizing for the Jubilee 2000 Campaign and the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines. She has conducted field research in Angola, Eritrea, Mozambique and South Africa, and is fluent in Portuguese and proficient in Swahili.
Email:
swills@heartlandalliance.org
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Yanow, Wendy (Visiting Faculty)
Wendy Yanow has taught at the School for New Learning for more than 25 years. She has taught a variety of courses from Learning Assessment Seminar and Foundations of Adult Learning to Concepts of Management, Future American Workplace, Practical Math and Applied Algebra and Critical Thinking. She has a BA in music from the University of Illinois, Chicago, an MA in Adult Education from National-Louis University and plans to complete a Doctorate in Education at National-Louis in June, 2007. Her research has focused on how race enters and structures the narratives of our life experience.
Email:
wyanow@depaul.edu
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Younger, Donna (Visiting Faculty)
Donna Younger is a member of the SNL Resident Faculty. She holds B.A. and M.A.T. degrees in English and an Ed.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from University of Memphis. Though American by birth, she is Southern by the grace of God.
Email:
dyounger@oakton.edu
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Zambrano, Carlos (Visiting Faculty)
Dr. Carlos H. Zambrano is a physician working for a Community Health Center in Chicago whose patient base is mainly Hispanics. He is instructor of Clinical Medicine at Northwestern University Medical School. He is a member of the Board of Directors at the American Lung Association, Chicago Chapter. Dr. Zambrano earned a M.D. degree from Free University in Colombia, South-America. He then completed training in Internal Medicine at a University of Illinois affiliated hospital in Evanston, IL, and in Infectious Diseases at Northwestern University in Chicago. His areas of interest are: AIDS/HIV, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Hepatitis C, Tuberculosis, Travel Medicine and Minority Health.
Email:
czambran@depaul.edu
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Zurybida, Catherine (Visiting Faculty)
I gained a BA in art from Reed College in 1982 with a thesis about a late medieval illuminted manuscript. With a minor in Russian, my interest in medieval art became graduate work in Byzantine art at the U. of Chicago, with a minor in ancient art. My masters thesis was about the dating controversy surrounding the mosaics in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
I have been teaching at DePaul in the Department of Art and Art History since 1990. I teach a variety of courses in ancient and medieval art, survey art history, courses in architecture in Chicago for the Freshman Year Programs as well as the Honors course in art history, "Art, Artist, Audience" in Winter 2004.
Email:
czurybid@depaul.edu
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