Education

Tim Cooper (educator, coach). Tim is a University of Oregon alum with a BA in sociology and Italian. In the fall of 2007 he studied abroad in Macerata, Italy and after graduating, he taught English in Vercelli, Italy for 2 years. Upon returning to the United States, Tim moved to San Francisco where ...

Ivano Fulgaro, language teacher, world traveler, Duck. After obtaining a Master's degree in Romance Languages at the University of Oregon he worked in many countries while presenting at multiple academic conferences and writing papers on cinematic representations of historical events. He is currentl...

Jianjun is an Associate Professor of Chinese at the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Kentucky. He is currently the Director of the Foreign Language and International Economics Program at UK. His primary research focuses on early Chinese int...

Kimberly Gauderman earned her Ph.D. in Latin American History at UCLA and is a professor of Latin American history at the University of New Mexico. She also serves as an expert witness in Latin American asylum cases. She authored Women’s Lives in Colonial Quito: Gender, Law, and Economy in Spanish A...

Blanca Aranda Gómez García, teaches language, and Latin American literature and culture courses in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at Western Washington University. Blanca’s research and teaching interests are guided by her will to strengthen the connections between the written word...

Max Arquilevich graduated from the University of Oregon in 2023 Cum Laude. Afterwards, he spent the year working in Iceland, Australia, Chile, and Tahiti, as a teaching assistant for an environmental study abroad company. He is looking to move to DC, in pursuit of a masters in public administration ...

Dr. Melissa Barker-Haliski is an associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutics at the University of Washington. She obtained a PhD in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of Utah. She has led the identification and pharmacological characterization of a diversity of novel preclini...

Dr. Tarik Richardson is an Africologist and a Professor of African American & Diaspora Studies at Xavier University of Louisiana, the nation's on Catholic HBCU. In 2015 Dr. Richardson, an undergraduate at the University of Oregon and a Gilman Scholar, traveled to the East Coast of Africa to stud...

"Jim" Mockford, retired after over 20 years in the computer electronics and software industry in a position that involved work in China, Japan, and Taiwan and previous positions in education and public affairs involving Japan. Currently, he is the Board President of the Northwest China Council since...

Diane Martinez is the current Professional Development Nurse Educator for Providence Health Systems, and a clinical instructor for Washington State University. She holds eleven years of nursing experience and is a native speaker of Spanish with a certification in medical interpreting. She graduated ...