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Dr. Christopher Bell
Director

B.A. Social Science
M.A. Television and Film Production - Screenwriting
Ph.D. Communication
Favorite speaker: George Carlin

Favorite quote:
"I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee
that I'm a good person... but it does mean I've read
a great deal. And in my experience, well-read
people are less likely to be evil."
- Daniel Handler
Dr. Bell
Dr. Reed Dr. Rachel Reed
Associate Director 

B.A. Journalism and English
M.A. Communication
Ph.D. Communication
Favorite speaker: Neil Patrick Harris

Favorite quote:
"Well behaved women seldom make history."
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 
Jesse Perez
Graduate Assistant Director - Leadership Team
Graduate Teaching Associate

M.A. Leadership and Research Foundations: Student Affairs in Higher Education
Graduation date: Spring 2013
Favorite speaker: Winona LaDuke

Favorite quote:
"A mind once stretched by a new idea never
regains its original dimensions."

- Winona LaDuke 
Jesse
Carly Carly Darrow
Coordinator of Communication Across the Curriculum - Leadership Team
Graduate Teaching Associate 

M.A. Communication
Graduation Date: Spring 2014
Favorite speaker: Eleanor Roosevelt

Favorite quote: 
"But the Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'thou mayest' - that 
gives a choice. It might be the most important word in 
the world. That says the way is open. That throws it 
right back on a man. For if 'thou mayest' - it is 
also true that 'thou mayest not.'"
- John Steinbeck 
Megan Trujillo
Student Supervisor - Leadership Team
Senior Tutor

Pretend Major: Economics
Real Major: Accounting
Minor: Economics

Graduation date: Spring 2013
Favorite speaker: Bill Cosby

Favorite quote:
"If you count all your assets,
you always show a profit."

- Robert Quillen
Megan
Laura Kluckman
Graduate Teaching Associate

M.A. Communication
Graduation date: Spring 2013

Favorite speaker: None

Favorite quote:
"Dance as though no one is watching;
love as though you have never been hurt before;
sing as though no one can hear you;
live as though Heaven is on Earth."
-Alfred D'Souza
Laura
MJ Majid Arjomandi
Graduate Teaching Associate

M.A. Communication
Graduation date: Fall 2013
Favorite speaker: The Rock

Favorite quote:
"Work smarter, not harder."
Kelly Lynch
Graduate Teaching Associate

M.A. Communication
Graduation date: Spring 2013
Favorite speaker: Guiliana Rancic

Favorite quote:
"There is no greater agony than
bearing an untold story inside you."
- Maya Angelou
Kelly
Nick Nick Serrano-Piche
Graduate Teaching Associate

M.A. Communication
Graduation date: Spring 2013
Favorite speaker: Winston Churchill

Favorite quote:
"...It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate.
I am the captain of my soul."
- William Ernest Henley
Julie Alexander
Graduate Teaching Associate

M.A. Communication
Graduation date: Spring 2014
Favorite speaker: Maya Angelou

Favorite quote: 
"It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see."
- Henry David Thoreau
Julie
Tony Tony Mitchell
Graduate Teaching Associate

M.A. Communication
Graduation date: Spring 2014
Favorite speaker: Stephen Colbert

Favorite quote:
"I'll lie to him."

"And if that doesn't work?"
"Then I'll tell the truth. We're allowed to do that in
emergencies. We can't plan for everything, you know."

- Orson Scott Card
Dusty Ramos
Senior Tutor

Major: Strategic Communication
Graduation Date: Spring 2013
Favorite Speaker: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Favorite quote:
"Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others
belong to us as well."
- Voltaire
Dusty
Joyce Brandon Wikner
Senior Tutor

Major: Strategic Communication
Graduation Date: Spring 2013
Favorite Speaker: Nick Swardson

Favorite quote:
"If you don't know where you are going,
any road will get you there."
- Lewis Carroll 
Ashley Cornelius
Senior Tutor

Majors: Communication and psychology
Graduation date: Spring 2013
Favorite speaker: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Favorite quote:
"A stranger is just a friend I haven't met yet."
- Will Rogers
Ashley
Megan Hannah Pinar
Junior Tutor

Major: Biology
Graduation Date: Spring 2014
Favorite Speaker: Martin Luther King, Jr.  

Favorite quote:
"The present moment is all you will ever have."
- Eckhart Tolle
Darius Pardner
Junior Tutor

Major: Communication - Organizational and Strategic
Graduation Date: Spring 2015
Favorite Speaker: Steven A. Smith

Favorite quote:
"There is no such thing as failure,
just improvement. You only fail when you quit trying."
 
Darius
Dusty Jill Greenhalgh
Junior Tutor

Major: Leadership Communication
Minor: American Sign Language
Graduation Date: Spring 2014
Favorite Speaker: none

Favorite quote:
"Music can lift us out of a depression or
move us into tears - it is a remedy."
- Oliver Sacks
Alyssa Grisham
Junior Tutor

Major: Leadership Studies
Minor: Human Services
Graduation Date: Spring 2014
Favorite Speaker: Francis Chan

Favorite quote:
"A good character is the best tombstone.
Those who loved you and were helped by you
will remember you when forget-me-nots
have withered. Carve your name on
hearts, not on marble."
- Charles H. Spurgeon
Alyssa
Kelly Kelly Giles
Junior Tutor

Major: Marketing and International Business
Graduation Date: Spring 2014
Favorite Speaker: Maya Angelou

Favorite quote:
"Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its
ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing
that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein 
Anthony Becerra
Junior Tutor

Major: Communication - Digital Filmmaking & Media Arts
Graduation Date: Spring 2014
Favorite Speaker: Charlie Chaplin

Favorite quote:
"True happiness does not lead to the cynicism of others."
Alyssa
Justin Justin Gregory
Junior Tutor

Major: Communication
Minor: Entreprenuership
Graduation Date: Spring 2013
Favorite Speaker: Jim Gaffigan

Favorite quote:
"Before you criticize someone, you should walk a
mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize
them, you are a mile away from them and
you have their shoes."
-Jack Handey 
Nicole Goeke
Junior Tutor

Major: Theater and Communication
Graduation Date: Spring 2015
Favorite Speaker: none

Favorite quote:
"We are all free and equal and entitled to our own craziness."
Nicole
Sara Sara Balakrishnan
Junior Tutor

Major: Communication - Media Studies
Minor: Film
Graduation Date: Spring 2015
Favorite Speaker: Casey Kasem

Favorite quote:
"You know what? If you don't like it,
go on the Internet and complain."
- Brian Griffin (Family Guy
Kayla Stretcher
Senior Tutor - Philosophy

Major: Political Science
Minors: Pre-Law, Honors, Communication and Philosophy
Graduation Date: Spring 2013

Favorite Speaker: Ellen DeGeneres

Favorite quote:
"When you believe in a thing, believe in it all
the way, implicitly and unquestionably." 
- Walt Disney
Kayla
Gabby Gabby Ring
Junior Tutor Trainee

Major: Biology
Graduation Date: Spring 2014
Favorite Speaker: Eddie Izzard

Favorite quote: 
"We are all made of star stuff."
- Carl Sagan