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Lori Kuwabara
Faculty,
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Office phone: (707) 778-3935 |
G r e e t i n g s ! This academic year, I became a fully-fledged member of the Petaluma faculty, after 17 years on the Santa Rosa campus. One of my primary (and favorite) roles here is the English instructor of the Puente Program, alongside counselor Geoff Navarro. For further information about this amazing statewide program at the Petaluma campus, please contact either Geoff or me any time during the semester (gnavarro@santarosa.edu or lkuwabara@santarosa.edu). The Santa Rosa Puente team is counselor Liz Giron (lgiron@santarosa.edu) and English instructor Lauren Servais (lservais@santarosa.edu). Si se puede. Below is my schedule for SPRING 2013 -- at the Petaluma Campus (PC). Office hours subject to change. Schedule
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. English 1A - Puente 644 Call 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Puente Meeting TBA 2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Office hour 688 Call 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Office hour 688 Call 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. English 1A 696 Call 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. English 100 694 Call 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m. PFF Meeting TBA 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. English 1A - Puente 644 Call 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Office Hour 688 Call 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Office Hour 688 Call 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. English 1A 696 Call 1:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. English 100 694 Call 3 p.m. - 5 p.m. Meetings as scheduled Hither & yon
Biography
Education
Thesis: "Growing Up on the Edge: Children of Gay & Lesbian Parents" Master's of Education, UCLA Secondary Teaching Credential, English, UCLA Bachelor's of English, U.C. Berkeley Senior thesis: "The Japanese Influence on William Butler Yeats"
Academic Experience
Head Start Program, Seattle Community College, Seattle, WA English Dept., El Camino College, Torrance, CA College Writing (nee Subject A), U.C. Berkeley English Dept., Saugus High School, Santa Clarita, CA International Education Services, Tokyo, Japan
Work and Consulting Experience
Writer -- short fiction, journalism Puente Project English Instructor Consultant to the National S.E.E.D. (Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity) Project for Inclusive Curriculum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Educational Testing Services Reader MCAT-LSAT Review Instructor for the Columbia Review, San Francisco, CA
Professional Areas of Interest
Interdisciplinary Learning Communities Collaborative learning and teaching Cultural Studies: ethnic studies, women's studies, American Cultures, visual studies Asian America
Presentations and Publications
"Why 'Give a Rat' About Huck Finn?" Work of Literary Merit lecture on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA. October 27, 2008. "Literature Through a White Privilege Lens," White Privilege Conference 9, Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center, Springfield, MA. April 2-5, 2008. "Seeing Literature Through a White Privilege Lens," White Privilege Conference 8, Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center, Colorado Springs, CO. April 19-21, 2007. "Inter-racial Relationships," White Privilege Conference 6, Central College, Pella, Iowa. April 27-30, 2005. “Moving Toward Racial Literacy,” part of colloquium titled “Something’s Got to Give: Transforming the Role of Whiteness in Learning Contexts,” The Eleventh International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference on Learning, Havana, Cuba. June 27, 2004. (Published version online in International Journal of Learning, 2005.) Readings: Women’s History Month 2000 and 2001, Jasmine Nights & Monkey Pluck readings 2003. “Historical Memory: Camp Notes and Barbed Wire,” Work of Literary Merit lecture on Snow Falling on Cedars, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA. March 22, 1999. "Journeying Beyond Gold Mountain: The Unbound Feat of The Woman Warrior," Work of Literary Merit lecture on The Woman Warrior, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA. April 29, 1998. "SRJC's College Success Program: a Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Alternative for Under-Prepared First-Year College Students," panel presentation, 1998 Conference on College Composition and Communication, Chicago, IL. April 2, 1998. PUBLICATIONS: “A Journey Toward Cultural Literacy,” The International Journal of Learning, online, Common Ground Publishing, 2005. Contributing editor, The International Journal of Learning, Common Ground Publishing, 2005. “Tea Divinity,” Jasmine Nights & Monkey Pluck: Love, Discovery and Tea, Floreant Press, 2002. "Issei Choices," short fiction, Women's Words, Winter 1998. "Taking Liberties: Theaters Struggle to Adapt Shakespeare to a Multicultural California," East Bay Guardian, June 1991. (Nominated for Arts Article of the Year, Association of Independent Newspapers 1991.) "Matrons of a Movement: Portraits of African American Women Who Have Fought for Change in America," The Daily Californian, April 24, 1991. "Collisions and Contrasts: Alternative Visions of Japanese Society from a New Generation of Filmmakers," East Bay Guardian, April 1991. "Steven Okazaki's 'Days of Waiting': Estelle Ishigo Stood by Her Man," Datebook, San Francisco Chronicle-Examiner, August 26, 1990. "So, You Want to Get into Cal!" Diablo Magazine, August 1990. "In Search of the Japanese Woman," Transpacific Magazine, September-October 1989. Other work available on request
Honors and Awards
Regina Stanback-Stroud Diversity Award nominee, 2008. Hayward Award for Excellence in Education nominee, 2005. International Who's Who of Professional & Business Women, 7th edition, 2003, American Biographical Institute, North Carolina. Marquis Who's Who in the West, 2000-2001. Excellence in Education Award winner, Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce, 1998. Who's Who in American Education, 1996-2007.
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