Focus Summer 2018: Where we live and work

Our place. Our purpose.

Our practice.

where we

live & work

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

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FOCUS Summer 2018

President Katrina S. Rogers, PhD

FIELDING ON STATE STREET

Associate Director, Media & Communications Starshine Roshell

FIELDING.EDU Please send reader responses to Starshine Roshell at sroshell@fielding.edu © 2018 Fielding Graduate University.

All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any form without prior written permission from Fielding Graduate University.

FIELDING SUPPORTERS

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AT WORK ON CAPITOL HILL

Where We Live & Work

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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ABOUT FIELDING

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SCHOOLS & PROGRAMS

NEW SCHOLARSHIPS

12 A ZOOM WITH A VIEW

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MASTER’S & CERTIFICATE GRADUATES

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LIFE BEFORE ZOOM

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DEVELOPMENT NEWS

As a sense-making species, we need the physical and psychic grounding of connecting to places in the world.

We often carry multiple and overlapping identities from the locales that call to us. As the writer Azar Nafisi observed, “You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place...like you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.” Our students often express a similar feeling as they graduate — that they will never pass this way again in the same way as before.

As a distributed community, Fielding’s members are keenly sensitized to the ways in which we build community every time we connect to each other, whether it be by phone, email, Zoom, or face to face. We teleport in from our places to create something new and ephemeral—in the moment when we are together—and

“How is our world touched and shaped by our Fielding sense of place? ”

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FIELDING IN THE NEWS

ne essential element of our humanity is our affinity for places. Mountains, seas, cities, canyons, and desert — these spaces nourish, energize, and sustain us in life-giving ways. Home, family, and community — constructed over time and re-built over the course of our lives, these spaces nurture the people we are becoming each day.

It is in this spirit of honoring the spaces and places of our Fielding community members that we present this issue about Where We Live & Work.

ALUMNI FEATURE

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A Letter from the

President

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Art Director Audrey Ma FOCUS is published by Fielding Graduate University 2020 De la Vina St. Santa Barbara, CA 93105

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DOCTORAL GRADUATES

then that moment is gone and we carry that memory until the next time we meet. So we asked ourselves: What do each of us create each day and how is our world touched and shaped by our Fielding sense of place?

As Fielding, we intentionally seek to build a community founded on our collective values of transformational learning and social justice in order to create a more just, humane, and sustainable world. The stories herein embody all the beautiful complexity that makes up our shared space.

I look forward to seeing each of you throughout the year in the place that is Fielding.

KATRINA S. ROGERS, PHD President

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

8

FOCUS Summer 2018

President Katrina S. Rogers, PhD

FIELDING ON STATE STREET

Associate Director, Media & Communications Starshine Roshell

FIELDING.EDU Please send reader responses to Starshine Roshell at sroshell@fielding.edu © 2018 Fielding Graduate University.

All rights reserved. No portion of this publication may be reproduced in any form without prior written permission from Fielding Graduate University.

FIELDING SUPPORTERS

4 5

AT WORK ON CAPITOL HILL

Where We Live & Work

O

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

20

ABOUT FIELDING

6

SCHOOLS & PROGRAMS

NEW SCHOLARSHIPS

12 A ZOOM WITH A VIEW

21

MASTER’S & CERTIFICATE GRADUATES

13 FPO

LIFE BEFORE ZOOM

14

16

DEVELOPMENT NEWS

As a sense-making species, we need the physical and psychic grounding of connecting to places in the world.

We often carry multiple and overlapping identities from the locales that call to us. As the writer Azar Nafisi observed, “You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place...like you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.” Our students often express a similar feeling as they graduate — that they will never pass this way again in the same way as before.

As a distributed community, Fielding’s members are keenly sensitized to the ways in which we build community every time we connect to each other, whether it be by phone, email, Zoom, or face to face. We teleport in from our places to create something new and ephemeral—in the moment when we are together—and

“How is our world touched and shaped by our Fielding sense of place? ”

\

FIELDING IN THE NEWS

ne essential element of our humanity is our affinity for places. Mountains, seas, cities, canyons, and desert — these spaces nourish, energize, and sustain us in life-giving ways. Home, family, and community — constructed over time and re-built over the course of our lives, these spaces nurture the people we are becoming each day.

It is in this spirit of honoring the spaces and places of our Fielding community members that we present this issue about Where We Live & Work.

ALUMNI FEATURE

7

A Letter from the

President

10

Art Director Audrey Ma FOCUS is published by Fielding Graduate University 2020 De la Vina St. Santa Barbara, CA 93105

18

23

DOCTORAL GRADUATES

then that moment is gone and we carry that memory until the next time we meet. So we asked ourselves: What do each of us create each day and how is our world touched and shaped by our Fielding sense of place?

As Fielding, we intentionally seek to build a community founded on our collective values of transformational learning and social justice in order to create a more just, humane, and sustainable world. The stories herein embody all the beautiful complexity that makes up our shared space.

I look forward to seeing each of you throughout the year in the place that is Fielding.

KATRINA S. ROGERS, PHD President

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Trustees Karen Bogart, PhD Chair

Otto Lee, EdD

Gary Wagenheim, PhD Vice-Chair

Shalynda McIvory, MS

President, Smith Bogart Consulting, Santa Barbara, CA Adjunct Professor, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC

President, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA Student Member, Snellville, GA

Professor, North Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

Professor, Computer Science, Howard University Washington, DC

Patricia Zell, JD Secretary

Katrina S. Rogers, PhD ex officio

Nancy Baker, PhD

Diplomate in Forensic Psychology, Half Moon Bay, CA

Karin Bunnell, PhD

President, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA

Sushma Sharma

CEO, Resonate Consulting, New Delhi, India

Principal, Hatteras Consulting, LLC, Pleasanton, CA

TRUSTEE EMERITI

Keith Earley, PhD, JD

Michael Goldstein Russ Goodman Bo Gyllenpalm E. Nancy Markle Fred Phillips Connie Shafran Nancy Shapiro

Principal, Early Interventions, LLC, Rockville, MD

Kevin Fickenscher, MD

CEO/Founder, CREO Strategic Solutions, LLC Boston, MA

Anthony Greene, PhD

Faculty Member, Gainesville, FL

Garry Hare, PhD

1% 4%

American Indian or Alaska Native

Asian

Wayne Patterson, PhD

Manley Begay, PhD Treasurer

Partner, Zell & Cox Law, Santa Barbara, CA

STUDENT BODY DEMOGRAPHICS

14% 12% 50% 6%

Principal, Strategic Vision In Action, Milwaukee, WI

Judith Katz, EdD

Executive Vice President, The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group Washington, DC

Tomás Leal, MS

Senior Director, Research & Development Inclusion Strategy Lead, GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, PA

5% 8%

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs within distributed and relational learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge. This community of scholar practitioners addresses personal, organizational, societal, ecological, and global concerns in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Vision We are an innovative global community dedicated to educating scholars, leaders, and practitioners in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Values ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE: We commit to the highest quality scholarship, research, and practice.

COMMUNITY: We support a collaborative learning environment built on inclusion and mutual respect.

Black or African American

Hispanic or Latino

White

Two or More Races

Faculty Member, Goleta, CA

Linda Honold, PhD

5

Mission

Race/Ethnicity Unknown

International Students

DIVERSITY: We commit to having a faculty, staff, and student body that is diverse and inclusive. We embrace and celebrate the wisdom, knowledge, and experiences of our diverse community.

LEARNER-CENTERED EDUCATION: We create an interactive experience that responds to the interrelated personal and professional lives of our students.

SOCIAL JUSTICE: We commit to advancing equality and justice in our University, and in the local, national, and global communities impacted by our work.

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEARNING: We inspire a re-examination of one’s world view and underlying assumptions to enable a deeper understanding of self and society.

Enrollment

957

Women

75% Men

25% Age Range

23 –82

Our Team

Board of

About Fielding

Students

4

Total Faculty

190

Total Staff

79

Students-to-Faculty

5:1

Source: Fall 2017 data provided by the Office of Institutional Research

WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Trustees Karen Bogart, PhD Chair

Otto Lee, EdD

Gary Wagenheim, PhD Vice-Chair

Shalynda McIvory, MS

President, Smith Bogart Consulting, Santa Barbara, CA Adjunct Professor, Beedie School of Business, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC

President, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, CA Student Member, Snellville, GA

Professor, North Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

Professor, Computer Science, Howard University Washington, DC

Patricia Zell, JD Secretary

Katrina S. Rogers, PhD ex officio

Nancy Baker, PhD

Diplomate in Forensic Psychology, Half Moon Bay, CA

Karin Bunnell, PhD

President, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA

Sushma Sharma

CEO, Resonate Consulting, New Delhi, India

Principal, Hatteras Consulting, LLC, Pleasanton, CA

TRUSTEE EMERITI

Keith Earley, PhD, JD

Michael Goldstein Russ Goodman Bo Gyllenpalm E. Nancy Markle Fred Phillips Connie Shafran Nancy Shapiro

Principal, Early Interventions, LLC, Rockville, MD

Kevin Fickenscher, MD

CEO/Founder, CREO Strategic Solutions, LLC Boston, MA

Anthony Greene, PhD

Faculty Member, Gainesville, FL

Garry Hare, PhD

1% 4%

American Indian or Alaska Native

Asian

Wayne Patterson, PhD

Manley Begay, PhD Treasurer

Partner, Zell & Cox Law, Santa Barbara, CA

STUDENT BODY DEMOGRAPHICS

14% 12% 50% 6%

Principal, Strategic Vision In Action, Milwaukee, WI

Judith Katz, EdD

Executive Vice President, The Kaleel Jamison Consulting Group Washington, DC

Tomás Leal, MS

Senior Director, Research & Development Inclusion Strategy Lead, GlaxoSmithKline, Philadelphia, PA

5% 8%

We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs within distributed and relational learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge. This community of scholar practitioners addresses personal, organizational, societal, ecological, and global concerns in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Vision We are an innovative global community dedicated to educating scholars, leaders, and practitioners in pursuit of a more just and sustainable world.

Values ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE: We commit to the highest quality scholarship, research, and practice.

COMMUNITY: We support a collaborative learning environment built on inclusion and mutual respect.

Black or African American

Hispanic or Latino

White

Two or More Races

Faculty Member, Goleta, CA

Linda Honold, PhD

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Mission

Race/Ethnicity Unknown

International Students

DIVERSITY: We commit to having a faculty, staff, and student body that is diverse and inclusive. We embrace and celebrate the wisdom, knowledge, and experiences of our diverse community.

LEARNER-CENTERED EDUCATION: We create an interactive experience that responds to the interrelated personal and professional lives of our students.

SOCIAL JUSTICE: We commit to advancing equality and justice in our University, and in the local, national, and global communities impacted by our work.

TRANSFORMATIONAL LEARNING: We inspire a re-examination of one’s world view and underlying assumptions to enable a deeper understanding of self and society.

Enrollment

957

Women

75% Men

25% Age Range

23 –82

Our Team

Board of

About Fielding

Students

4

Total Faculty

190

Total Staff

79

Students-to-Faculty

5:1

Source: Fall 2017 data provided by the Office of Institutional Research

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Schools & Programs

Life Before Zoom Distance Learning Never Felt Distant to Me

By Anna DiStefano, EdD

School of Leadership Studies

School of Psychology

DOCTORAL DEGREES EdD, Leadership for Change PhD, Human Development PhD, Infant & Early Childhood Development PhD, Organizational Development & Change

DOCTORAL DEGREES PhD, Clinical Psychology

Concentrations

Community College Leadership for Change Creative Longevity & Wisdom Dual Language Evidence Based Coaching Inclusive Leadership for Social Justice Leadership for Social & Ecological Sustainability Leadership of Higher Education Systems Media, Technology, & Innovation Organization Development Reflective Practice/Supervision Somatics, Phenomenology, & Communicative Leadership MASTER’S DEGREES MA, Collaborative Educational Leadership MA, Digital Teaching & Learning MA, Clinical Mental Health Counseling MA, Couples/Marriage & Family Therapy MA, Infant & Early Childhood Development MA, Organizational Development & Leadership

CERTIFICATES Comprehensive Evidence Based Coaching Educational Administration Evidence Based Coaching for Organization Leadership Organizational Consulting Organizational Development & Leadership Reflective Practice/Supervision

Concentrations

Forensic Psychology Health Psychology Neuropsychology Parent-Infant Mental Health Social Justice and Diversity Violence Prevention & Control

PhD, Media Psychology

Concentrations

Brand Psychology & Audience Engagement Positive Psychology & Media Social Impact of Mobile Media & Immersive Technology MASTER’S DEGREES MA, Media Psychology

CERTIFICATES Clinical Psychology, Postbaccalaureate Media Psychology (Media Neuroscience or Brand Psychology

& Audience Engagement) Neuropsychology, Postdoctoral Respecialization in Clinical Psychology, Postdoctoral

Centers & Initiatives The Institute for Social Innovation helps individuals, nonprofits, businesses and government organizations create effective, efficient, sustainable and just solutions to societal problems via research, leadership, and organizational development.

The Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education is a multidisciplinary research and advocacy center aimed at advancing diversity and inclusion throughout society.

The Alonso Center for Psychodynamic Studies aims to expand the application of psychodynamic ideas, treatments, and principles both within the Fielding community and the larger society.

The Worldwide Network for Gender Empowerment (WNGE) is committed to research, collaboration, and action in support of women’s and gender issues in education, healthcare, the environment, violence prevention, and globalization.

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hen I started working at Fielding in 1983, we used three forms of communication and interaction: in person, telephone (corded, not the mobile type), and US mail. There was no internet for non-military use in the US, no fax, and overnight mail delivery came later. Our correspondence was typed on an electronic typewriter; occasionally, we tolerated a handwritten piece of work from students as documentation of learning.

Communication came at a cost. Meeting face to face meant traveling by land or air to spend time with each other. (Two of our founders, Hallock Hoffman and Renate Tesch, were pilots and owned a small private plane.) Students traveled to meet together at monthly cluster gatherings facilitated by a local faculty member. Faculty from other parts of the country visited other clusters at their invitation, usually for a full weekend. Santa Barbara-based program directors visited each cluster at least once a year. I saw much of the United States and some of Canada that way, racking up frequent flyer miles. Being together was precious time, and it was filled with learning and food and fun. There were also three regional sessions that included faculty across Psychology and Human & Organization Development (our only doctoral programs at the time) from that region and the Santa Barbara-based administration. And, of course, there was the luxury of a whole week together during Summer Session at La Casa de Maria retreat center in the hills of Santa Barbara.

In between the intensity of those in-person gatherings were days spent sitting in one’s office and waiting for the mail, which contained printed copies of student work that was logged and stamped and then circulated to the right person for reading and response. For accreditation purposes, we kept copies of a sampling of all that work for teams to review as authentic student work products. (Think lots of file cabinets with oddly sized packets of materials!) We sometimes reviewed tape recordings of student presentations, especially as part of the applied portions of student coursework. On occasion, these presentations might be several hours long. We wrote lots and lots of letters with feedback to students about their work and their progress – and we mailed them.

Sometimes, it seemed like a good idea to talk on the phone, but we did that judiciously because phone rates were not cheap and were highest during the business day. Students were usually at work then, anyway. We always volunteered to place the call, so students wouldn’t have to pay for it (HOD always had the highest phone bill.) That sometimes meant carefully tracking time zones and coming in to the office early or staying late so we could catch each other by phone.

I came to know student and faculty voices as well as, if not better than, their faces, and almost better than the voices of my relatives!

The feeling at the office was quiet and deep – like a library in the old days. We visited other staff members’ offices sometimes just to get up and away from our desks. Personally, I liked roaming around the building and making excuses for interrupting what other people were doing.

Because Fielding is distributed, I have never taken for granted the opportunities for interaction with members of this community. In the ’80s, I felt close to students and faculty through their written and recorded work and our occasional in-person conversations. I appreciated the good company of other staff in Santa Barbara. The pace of those interactions has changed quite a lot in both form and feeling over the last three and a half decades. Already this morning, I reviewed two student assessment contracts on my phone over breakfast, met on Zoom with a student in Virginia about her dissertation data analysis, and planned some future collaborative work with an alum in the Caribbean (also on Zoom). I get more done thanks to technology, and I get it done faster. I am able to get closer to more colleagues. I have reduced my carbon footprint.

Are you waiting for a “but”? I’m sure there must be tradeoffs in the depth of my reflections, in the care with which I choose words of feedback, in the appreciation I have for the touch and taste and smell of physical settings around the continent. In the end, though, the purpose for which we use the tools of communication remains constant: to build relationships within which we are changed as individuals and as a community. I remain grateful for all of the ways in which we have been able to be present with each other.

Dr. Anna DiStefano, left, was a Fielding administrator and faculty member for 35 years. She served as both dean of the HOD Program and Provost before joining the Educational Leadership for Change faculty in 2010. She retired this year.•

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Schools & Programs

Life Before Zoom Distance Learning Never Felt Distant to Me

By Anna DiStefano, EdD

School of Leadership Studies

School of Psychology

DOCTORAL DEGREES EdD, Leadership for Change PhD, Human Development PhD, Infant & Early Childhood Development PhD, Organizational Development & Change

DOCTORAL DEGREES PhD, Clinical Psychology

Concentrations

Community College Leadership for Change Creative Longevity & Wisdom Dual Language Evidence Based Coaching Inclusive Leadership for Social Justice Leadership for Social & Ecological Sustainability Leadership of Higher Education Systems Media, Technology, & Innovation Organization Development Reflective Practice/Supervision Somatics, Phenomenology, & Communicative Leadership MASTER’S DEGREES MA, Collaborative Educational Leadership MA, Digital Teaching & Learning MA, Clinical Mental Health Counseling MA, Couples/Marriage & Family Therapy MA, Infant & Early Childhood Development MA, Organizational Development & Leadership

CERTIFICATES Comprehensive Evidence Based Coaching Educational Administration Evidence Based Coaching for Organization Leadership Organizational Consulting Organizational Development & Leadership Reflective Practice/Supervision

Concentrations

Forensic Psychology Health Psychology Neuropsychology Parent-Infant Mental Health Social Justice and Diversity Violence Prevention & Control

PhD, Media Psychology

Concentrations

Brand Psychology & Audience Engagement Positive Psychology & Media Social Impact of Mobile Media & Immersive Technology MASTER’S DEGREES MA, Media Psychology

CERTIFICATES Clinical Psychology, Postbaccalaureate Media Psychology (Media Neuroscience or Brand Psychology

& Audience Engagement) Neuropsychology, Postdoctoral Respecialization in Clinical Psychology, Postdoctoral

Centers & Initiatives The Institute for Social Innovation helps individuals, nonprofits, businesses and government organizations create effective, efficient, sustainable and just solutions to societal problems via research, leadership, and organizational development.

The Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education is a multidisciplinary research and advocacy center aimed at advancing diversity and inclusion throughout society.

The Alonso Center for Psychodynamic Studies aims to expand the application of psychodynamic ideas, treatments, and principles both within the Fielding community and the larger society.

The Worldwide Network for Gender Empowerment (WNGE) is committed to research, collaboration, and action in support of women’s and gender issues in education, healthcare, the environment, violence prevention, and globalization.

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hen I started working at Fielding in 1983, we used three forms of communication and interaction: in person, telephone (corded, not the mobile type), and US mail. There was no internet for non-military use in the US, no fax, and overnight mail delivery came later. Our correspondence was typed on an electronic typewriter; occasionally, we tolerated a handwritten piece of work from students as documentation of learning.

Communication came at a cost. Meeting face to face meant traveling by land or air to spend time with each other. (Two of our founders, Hallock Hoffman and Renate Tesch, were pilots and owned a small private plane.) Students traveled to meet together at monthly cluster gatherings facilitated by a local faculty member. Faculty from other parts of the country visited other clusters at their invitation, usually for a full weekend. Santa Barbara-based program directors visited each cluster at least once a year. I saw much of the United States and some of Canada that way, racking up frequent flyer miles. Being together was precious time, and it was filled with learning and food and fun. There were also three regional sessions that included faculty across Psychology and Human & Organization Development (our only doctoral programs at the time) from that region and the Santa Barbara-based administration. And, of course, there was the luxury of a whole week together during Summer Session at La Casa de Maria retreat center in the hills of Santa Barbara.

In between the intensity of those in-person gatherings were days spent sitting in one’s office and waiting for the mail, which contained printed copies of student work that was logged and stamped and then circulated to the right person for reading and response. For accreditation purposes, we kept copies of a sampling of all that work for teams to review as authentic student work products. (Think lots of file cabinets with oddly sized packets of materials!) We sometimes reviewed tape recordings of student presentations, especially as part of the applied portions of student coursework. On occasion, these presentations might be several hours long. We wrote lots and lots of letters with feedback to students about their work and their progress – and we mailed them.

Sometimes, it seemed like a good idea to talk on the phone, but we did that judiciously because phone rates were not cheap and were highest during the business day. Students were usually at work then, anyway. We always volunteered to place the call, so students wouldn’t have to pay for it (HOD always had the highest phone bill.) That sometimes meant carefully tracking time zones and coming in to the office early or staying late so we could catch each other by phone.

I came to know student and faculty voices as well as, if not better than, their faces, and almost better than the voices of my relatives!

The feeling at the office was quiet and deep – like a library in the old days. We visited other staff members’ offices sometimes just to get up and away from our desks. Personally, I liked roaming around the building and making excuses for interrupting what other people were doing.

Because Fielding is distributed, I have never taken for granted the opportunities for interaction with members of this community. In the ’80s, I felt close to students and faculty through their written and recorded work and our occasional in-person conversations. I appreciated the good company of other staff in Santa Barbara. The pace of those interactions has changed quite a lot in both form and feeling over the last three and a half decades. Already this morning, I reviewed two student assessment contracts on my phone over breakfast, met on Zoom with a student in Virginia about her dissertation data analysis, and planned some future collaborative work with an alum in the Caribbean (also on Zoom). I get more done thanks to technology, and I get it done faster. I am able to get closer to more colleagues. I have reduced my carbon footprint.

Are you waiting for a “but”? I’m sure there must be tradeoffs in the depth of my reflections, in the care with which I choose words of feedback, in the appreciation I have for the touch and taste and smell of physical settings around the continent. In the end, though, the purpose for which we use the tools of communication remains constant: to build relationships within which we are changed as individuals and as a community. I remain grateful for all of the ways in which we have been able to be present with each other.

Dr. Anna DiStefano, left, was a Fielding administrator and faculty member for 35 years. She served as both dean of the HOD Program and Provost before joining the Educational Leadership for Change faculty in 2010. She retired this year.•

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Below: A group of students posed for a selfie beneath a Fielding flag during Winter Session.

Fielding on

State Street N

ext time you’re at Winter Session in Santa Barbara, take a break from learning and catching up with colleagues, and take the electric shuttle over to State Street. As you stroll along the American Riviera’s iconic, palm-lined shoppingand-dining thoroughfare, you’ll see 125 brightly colored Fielding flags flapping in the ocean breeze on either side of the avenue.

For one week every year — the week that coincides with Winter Session — the city’s Downtown Organization flies flags honoring Fielding Graduate University and welcoming our visitors.

Bearing the proud faces of our accomplished graduates – Arthur Coronado, Gloria Gutierrez, and Karen Hempstead – and the warm colors used on our website, they also show tourists and remind the city’s residents that we’ve been a vibrant part of the area’s intellectual community for more than 40 years.

Though Fielding pioneered distance learning, and our community understands that Fielding exists everywhere that our students, faculty, alumni, and staff are actively sharing our knowledge and values, Santa Barbara will always be where the university was born.

And where our Fielding flags fly.•

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Below: A group of students posed for a selfie beneath a Fielding flag during Winter Session.

Fielding on

State Street N

ext time you’re at Winter Session in Santa Barbara, take a break from learning and catching up with colleagues, and take the electric shuttle over to State Street. As you stroll along the American Riviera’s iconic, palm-lined shoppingand-dining thoroughfare, you’ll see 125 brightly colored Fielding flags flapping in the ocean breeze on either side of the avenue.

For one week every year — the week that coincides with Winter Session — the city’s Downtown Organization flies flags honoring Fielding Graduate University and welcoming our visitors.

Bearing the proud faces of our accomplished graduates – Arthur Coronado, Gloria Gutierrez, and Karen Hempstead – and the warm colors used on our website, they also show tourists and remind the city’s residents that we’ve been a vibrant part of the area’s intellectual community for more than 40 years.

Though Fielding pioneered distance learning, and our community understands that Fielding exists everywhere that our students, faculty, alumni, and staff are actively sharing our knowledge and values, Santa Barbara will always be where the university was born.

And where our Fielding flags fly.•

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Fielding at Work on Capitol Hill

For decades, the only official Fielding offices were on the West Coast. But for the past few years, Fielding has been operating an office in the nation’s capital, where several dedicated staff members manage our strategic initiatives and research, sponsored programs, and federal grants.

“Fielding established a physical presence in Washington DC to advance three mission critical goals,” says President Katrina Rogers, PhD: “to implement programs for broadening participation in advancing leadership of women and people of color in the STEM professions, to offer programs for our alumni throughout the region, and to raise awareness among higher-education colleagues about Fielding. It is our vision to use graduate education as a vehicle to create scholar-practitioners who are vested and active in positive social change in their professional lives and their communities.”

In April, the DC staff moved into a brand new office on Capitol Hill with extensive space for hosting gatherings of alumni or Mid-Atlantic cluster meetings. The cheerful space has beautiful top-floor meeting rooms with panoramic views of the city and an outdoor rooftop terrace with a view of the US Capitol Building. (Plus there’s a Trader Joe’s in the basement!)

“The new Fielding office will provide the perfect setting for us to advance the work of several National Science Foundation-funded Fielding initiatives,” says Orlando

Taylor, PhD, Fielding’s VP for Strategic Initiatives and Research and leader of the DC team. “For example, Fielding’s collaborative Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership will be housed in the space.

Among its goals will be to influence national policy on STEM inclusion and diversity as an essential requirement for advancing American competitiveness in the STEM fields. Fielding’s proximity to the US Congress and other federal agencies will enhance the university’s visibility and presence on the national stage in the pursuit of this work.”

OUR EAST COAST HUB

The DC office also manages Fielding’s partnership with the University of the District of Columbia for the Urban Leadership and Entrepreneurship doctoral program, and supports faculty, students, and alumni who are working on grants. Staff there includes Katherine McGraw, PhD, director of sponsored programs; Melissa Wynn, STEM continuing education and special projects coordinator; and Helen Hancock, administrative assistant.

Orlando Taylor

“We’re a landing point for the East Coast alumni and students,” says Dr. McGraw “—something to grab onto on this side of the country.”

Katherine McGraw

The new office is located at 700 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, 2nd floor, Washington, DC 20003.•

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FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Fielding at Work on Capitol Hill

For decades, the only official Fielding offices were on the West Coast. But for the past few years, Fielding has been operating an office in the nation’s capital, where several dedicated staff members manage our strategic initiatives and research, sponsored programs, and federal grants.

“Fielding established a physical presence in Washington DC to advance three mission critical goals,” says President Katrina Rogers, PhD: “to implement programs for broadening participation in advancing leadership of women and people of color in the STEM professions, to offer programs for our alumni throughout the region, and to raise awareness among higher-education colleagues about Fielding. It is our vision to use graduate education as a vehicle to create scholar-practitioners who are vested and active in positive social change in their professional lives and their communities.”

In April, the DC staff moved into a brand new office on Capitol Hill with extensive space for hosting gatherings of alumni or Mid-Atlantic cluster meetings. The cheerful space has beautiful top-floor meeting rooms with panoramic views of the city and an outdoor rooftop terrace with a view of the US Capitol Building. (Plus there’s a Trader Joe’s in the basement!)

“The new Fielding office will provide the perfect setting for us to advance the work of several National Science Foundation-funded Fielding initiatives,” says Orlando

Taylor, PhD, Fielding’s VP for Strategic Initiatives and Research and leader of the DC team. “For example, Fielding’s collaborative Center for the Advancement of STEM Leadership will be housed in the space.

Among its goals will be to influence national policy on STEM inclusion and diversity as an essential requirement for advancing American competitiveness in the STEM fields. Fielding’s proximity to the US Congress and other federal agencies will enhance the university’s visibility and presence on the national stage in the pursuit of this work.”

OUR EAST COAST HUB

The DC office also manages Fielding’s partnership with the University of the District of Columbia for the Urban Leadership and Entrepreneurship doctoral program, and supports faculty, students, and alumni who are working on grants. Staff there includes Katherine McGraw, PhD, director of sponsored programs; Melissa Wynn, STEM continuing education and special projects coordinator; and Helen Hancock, administrative assistant.

Orlando Taylor

“We’re a landing point for the East Coast alumni and students,” says Dr. McGraw “—something to grab onto on this side of the country.”

Katherine McGraw

The new office is located at 700 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, 2nd floor, Washington, DC 20003.•

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Creating Peace Through Dialogue

Building onto a Robust Career

FLAVIO MESQUITA DA SILVA, PHD LIVES & WORKS: SOUTH BRAZIL

MARJORIE WOO, PHD LIVES & WORKS: SHANGHAI

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ut simply, Flavio Da Silva helps organizations talk their way to harmony.

“People call me when they’re in trouble,” says the new Fielding graduate, who earned his PhD in Human and Organizational Systems. “I help them find solutions or new pathways to foster well-being, good relationships, and more integrated thinking across large social systems.”

A lack of communication causes systems to decay and misfire, he says. “Through dialogue, you can build a very refined sense of peace.”

A Zoom with a View

Our Workspaces Around the World

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here is Fielding? For many of us, it’s often on our screens during Zoom sessions with fellow students, faculty members, and academic advisors — and these meetings can happen just about anywhere. Students and alumni tell us they’ve Zoomed “in the kitty condo at an animal shelter,” “while waiting for a mammogram,” and “from my sofa with my cat on one side and my neighbor’s dog on the other.”

“I’ve had several students who attend Zoom meetings from their ‘cloffices’ — closets that function as an office,” says faculty member Mimi Ormerod, PhD. “I’ve Zoomed from most of the United States as I traveled around it in a van during the majority of my time at Fielding,” says graduate J Logan Walls, PhD. “I held my final oral review on South Padre Island, Texas,” says Kimberly Davis Thompson, PhD. “My chair was physically present, one committee member attended from L.A., and another from Miami. It was tricoastal.”

Such is the beauty of Fielding. Enjoy these views of other Fielding workspaces.•

Clockwise starting top left: 1. Alum Akasha, PhD, works in the mountains of Grenada with a view of the Caribbean Sea, mango trees — and his cockapoo Rishi. 2. Alum Colleen Rustad, PhD, worked on her dissertation while looking out over Gig Harbor, Wash. 3. Alum Monica McClintock enjoys her backyard in Victory Lakes, NJ. 4. Alum John Robinson, PhD, Zooms from his ham radio station in the basement of his Londonderry, NH, basement.

5. Student Shannon Federspill Harper did research for her Psychopathology class on a field-trip bus with 30 fourth-grade students heading to the Louisiana State Capital.

Da Silva came to Fielding in 2011 after meeting alum Juanita Brown at a conference. Brown co-created the World Café method of organizing large groups of people into small group dialogues for knowledge sharing. “She encouraged me to take a look at Fielding and to expand and continue her work. So I was encouraged to take the same path and see if I could take it further — and I think I did. At least, I proved how effective the World Café can be in a large-scale, long-term endeavor such as the Generation of Peace project, based in Ceara, Brazil, done in cooperation with UNESCO.” “Generation of Peace” was the basis for his dissertation, and had the powerful aim of building a culture of peace among more than 700 high schools and their communities. Da Silva focused on promoting inclusion and respect for diversity among nearly half a million youth and their families, as well as thousands of teachers and administrators. Through this work, he was recognized as a Graduate Fellow through Fielding’s Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education Da Silva had been a trainer and consultant for years, but Fielding helped him broaden his work to develop this large-scale process. “I have become who I am thanks to Fielding,” he says. “I got the right language to use for academia, enterprises, NGOs, and spiritual communities.”

Fielding also improved his ability to work from anywhere in the world. “I learned that people could be on the same page even from thousands of miles away from each other,” he says. “I got better at teaching and consulting from a distance because I learned from a distance, trusting that people out there have the same longing that we have: to change the world.” •

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arjorie Woo already had considerable experience in the corporate world when she decided to get her PhD. Having grown up in California and worked at Xerox, she transferred to China for work and started a consulting company in Taiwan in leadership development. She coaches executives at Apple, IBM, and Hewlett Packard.

So she wanted a graduate school that respected her background.

“Fielding is the most applicable learning journey in adult development, in my perspective,” she says.

“It was a deeper level of understanding for adults that have a certain amount of life experience in their work, anywhere in the world. Most of the students and graduates I came into contact with were very much accomplished in their own right and doing things that were benefitting society at large. I applaud that.”

She earned a Certificate in Evidence Based Coaching (EBC) here in 2008, and a PhD in Human & Organizational Development in 2012.

“Fielding helped me articulate my values and find my voice,” says Woo. “It’s particularly important for women to be confident enough to have a voice and an opinion and stick to it.”

She and her group have coached over 1,200 senior level executives and over 25,000 mid-level managers in China, and she says she regularly relies on lessons she learned at Fielding, from positive psychology and adult development to facing change and our social responsibility to the environment and planet as a whole.

She also created a coaching-certificate program in China modeled after Fielding’s EBC program, which now has 160 graduates.

Six participants have gone on to earn their MAs and doctorates at Fielding.

“I’m committed to giving back, from what I’ve learned and how I’ve benefitted professionally,” says Woo, who attends annual Fielding cluster meetings in Shanghai with visiting faculty like Richard Appelbaum, Dorothy Agger-Gupta, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Connie Corley, and David Willis.

“There’s a sizeable Fielding community here in Asia,” she says with a smile. “The legacy is alive and well out here.” •

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Creating Peace Through Dialogue

Building onto a Robust Career

FLAVIO MESQUITA DA SILVA, PHD LIVES & WORKS: SOUTH BRAZIL

MARJORIE WOO, PHD LIVES & WORKS: SHANGHAI

P

M

ut simply, Flavio Da Silva helps organizations talk their way to harmony.

“People call me when they’re in trouble,” says the new Fielding graduate, who earned his PhD in Human and Organizational Systems. “I help them find solutions or new pathways to foster well-being, good relationships, and more integrated thinking across large social systems.”

A lack of communication causes systems to decay and misfire, he says. “Through dialogue, you can build a very refined sense of peace.”

A Zoom with a View

Our Workspaces Around the World

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here is Fielding? For many of us, it’s often on our screens during Zoom sessions with fellow students, faculty members, and academic advisors — and these meetings can happen just about anywhere. Students and alumni tell us they’ve Zoomed “in the kitty condo at an animal shelter,” “while waiting for a mammogram,” and “from my sofa with my cat on one side and my neighbor’s dog on the other.”

“I’ve had several students who attend Zoom meetings from their ‘cloffices’ — closets that function as an office,” says faculty member Mimi Ormerod, PhD. “I’ve Zoomed from most of the United States as I traveled around it in a van during the majority of my time at Fielding,” says graduate J Logan Walls, PhD. “I held my final oral review on South Padre Island, Texas,” says Kimberly Davis Thompson, PhD. “My chair was physically present, one committee member attended from L.A., and another from Miami. It was tricoastal.”

Such is the beauty of Fielding. Enjoy these views of other Fielding workspaces.•

Clockwise starting top left: 1. Alum Akasha, PhD, works in the mountains of Grenada with a view of the Caribbean Sea, mango trees — and his cockapoo Rishi. 2. Alum Colleen Rustad, PhD, worked on her dissertation while looking out over Gig Harbor, Wash. 3. Alum Monica McClintock enjoys her backyard in Victory Lakes, NJ. 4. Alum John Robinson, PhD, Zooms from his ham radio station in the basement of his Londonderry, NH, basement.

5. Student Shannon Federspill Harper did research for her Psychopathology class on a field-trip bus with 30 fourth-grade students heading to the Louisiana State Capital.

Da Silva came to Fielding in 2011 after meeting alum Juanita Brown at a conference. Brown co-created the World Café method of organizing large groups of people into small group dialogues for knowledge sharing. “She encouraged me to take a look at Fielding and to expand and continue her work. So I was encouraged to take the same path and see if I could take it further — and I think I did. At least, I proved how effective the World Café can be in a large-scale, long-term endeavor such as the Generation of Peace project, based in Ceara, Brazil, done in cooperation with UNESCO.” “Generation of Peace” was the basis for his dissertation, and had the powerful aim of building a culture of peace among more than 700 high schools and their communities. Da Silva focused on promoting inclusion and respect for diversity among nearly half a million youth and their families, as well as thousands of teachers and administrators. Through this work, he was recognized as a Graduate Fellow through Fielding’s Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education Da Silva had been a trainer and consultant for years, but Fielding helped him broaden his work to develop this large-scale process. “I have become who I am thanks to Fielding,” he says. “I got the right language to use for academia, enterprises, NGOs, and spiritual communities.”

Fielding also improved his ability to work from anywhere in the world. “I learned that people could be on the same page even from thousands of miles away from each other,” he says. “I got better at teaching and consulting from a distance because I learned from a distance, trusting that people out there have the same longing that we have: to change the world.” •

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arjorie Woo already had considerable experience in the corporate world when she decided to get her PhD. Having grown up in California and worked at Xerox, she transferred to China for work and started a consulting company in Taiwan in leadership development. She coaches executives at Apple, IBM, and Hewlett Packard.

So she wanted a graduate school that respected her background.

“Fielding is the most applicable learning journey in adult development, in my perspective,” she says.

“It was a deeper level of understanding for adults that have a certain amount of life experience in their work, anywhere in the world. Most of the students and graduates I came into contact with were very much accomplished in their own right and doing things that were benefitting society at large. I applaud that.”

She earned a Certificate in Evidence Based Coaching (EBC) here in 2008, and a PhD in Human & Organizational Development in 2012.

“Fielding helped me articulate my values and find my voice,” says Woo. “It’s particularly important for women to be confident enough to have a voice and an opinion and stick to it.”

She and her group have coached over 1,200 senior level executives and over 25,000 mid-level managers in China, and she says she regularly relies on lessons she learned at Fielding, from positive psychology and adult development to facing change and our social responsibility to the environment and planet as a whole.

She also created a coaching-certificate program in China modeled after Fielding’s EBC program, which now has 160 graduates.

Six participants have gone on to earn their MAs and doctorates at Fielding.

“I’m committed to giving back, from what I’ve learned and how I’ve benefitted professionally,” says Woo, who attends annual Fielding cluster meetings in Shanghai with visiting faculty like Richard Appelbaum, Dorothy Agger-Gupta, Margo Okazawa-Rey, Connie Corley, and David Willis.

“There’s a sizeable Fielding community here in Asia,” she says with a smile. “The legacy is alive and well out here.” •

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Fielding in theNews JANUARY 2017

Alum Melissa Michaels, EdD, publishes a book, “Youth on fire: Birthing a Generation of Embodied Global Leaders,” looking at the ways young people are being guided toward their own self-discovery

MAR 2018

Rolling Stone reviews the jazz harp concert of alum Susan Mazer, PhD, saying she “had the audience eating out of her hands.”

MAR 2018

DECEMBER 2017

The National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities shows how alum Susan Auger, PhD, developed an education program to help Hispanic women navigate pregnancy.

EBC faculty member Leni Wildflower, PhD, explains in Choice magazine how the Esalen Institute and John Whitmore influenced modern coaching.

FEB 2018

Alum Kimberly McGee, PhD, writes on LinkedIn about how diversity initiatives are failing when white women are 246% more likely to be executives than Asian women.

NOV 2017

Alum Judy Osterhage, EdD, is named a Local Hero by the Santa Barbara Independent for her work with foster youth.

President Katrina Rogers, PhD, tells Education Dive that universities must offer programs aligned with workforce needs — specifically, with jobs that can be done uniquely by humans, not machines.

FEB 2018

For International Women’s Day, alum and executive coach Carrie Arnold, PhD, writes about the silencing of female executives for Harvard’s Institute of Coaching.

MAR 2018

Fielding VP Monique Snowden, PhD, wrote the preface and co-authored a chapter in the new book Recruiting & Retaining a Diverse Student Body — which is part of Fielding’s mission.

MAR 2018

Alum Colette Schabram is honored by the California LGBT Health & Human Services Network for her leadership as executive director of Pacific Pride Foundation in Santa Barbara.

MAY 2018

NOV 2017

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Alum Carol Parker Walsh, PhD, is featured in The Washington Columbian for overcoming hardships to earn her degrees and start her coaching/ consulting business.

MAR 2018

Media Psychology faculty member Pamela Rutledge, PhD, explains to NBC News why some people are compelled to record music concerts—rather than live in the moment.

MAR 2018

MAY 2018

MAY 2018

Media Psychology faculty member Karen DillShackleford, PhD, and alum Deborah Ward, PhD, released a study showing that using Facebook can enhance well-being for adults on the autism spectrum.

Smithsonian interviews faculty member Lenneal Henderson, PhD, who spent 42 days in DC’s rainy, tented Resurrection City after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Media Psychology student and “Roseanne” writer/exec producer Dave Caplan talks to The Hollywood Reporter after the show was cancelled.

MAR 2018

The Today Show interviews Media Psychology alum Diana Graber about the nowpopular Cyber Civics middleschool program she created as her Fielding master’s thesis.

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Fielding in theNews JANUARY 2017

Alum Melissa Michaels, EdD, publishes a book, “Youth on fire: Birthing a Generation of Embodied Global Leaders,” looking at the ways young people are being guided toward their own self-discovery

MAR 2018

Rolling Stone reviews the jazz harp concert of alum Susan Mazer, PhD, saying she “had the audience eating out of her hands.”

MAR 2018

DECEMBER 2017

The National Institute on Minority Health & Health Disparities shows how alum Susan Auger, PhD, developed an education program to help Hispanic women navigate pregnancy.

EBC faculty member Leni Wildflower, PhD, explains in Choice magazine how the Esalen Institute and John Whitmore influenced modern coaching.

FEB 2018

Alum Kimberly McGee, PhD, writes on LinkedIn about how diversity initiatives are failing when white women are 246% more likely to be executives than Asian women.

NOV 2017

Alum Judy Osterhage, EdD, is named a Local Hero by the Santa Barbara Independent for her work with foster youth.

President Katrina Rogers, PhD, tells Education Dive that universities must offer programs aligned with workforce needs — specifically, with jobs that can be done uniquely by humans, not machines.

FEB 2018

For International Women’s Day, alum and executive coach Carrie Arnold, PhD, writes about the silencing of female executives for Harvard’s Institute of Coaching.

MAR 2018

Fielding VP Monique Snowden, PhD, wrote the preface and co-authored a chapter in the new book Recruiting & Retaining a Diverse Student Body — which is part of Fielding’s mission.

MAR 2018

Alum Colette Schabram is honored by the California LGBT Health & Human Services Network for her leadership as executive director of Pacific Pride Foundation in Santa Barbara.

MAY 2018

NOV 2017

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Alum Carol Parker Walsh, PhD, is featured in The Washington Columbian for overcoming hardships to earn her degrees and start her coaching/ consulting business.

MAR 2018

Media Psychology faculty member Pamela Rutledge, PhD, explains to NBC News why some people are compelled to record music concerts—rather than live in the moment.

MAR 2018

MAY 2018

MAY 2018

Media Psychology faculty member Karen DillShackleford, PhD, and alum Deborah Ward, PhD, released a study showing that using Facebook can enhance well-being for adults on the autism spectrum.

Smithsonian interviews faculty member Lenneal Henderson, PhD, who spent 42 days in DC’s rainy, tented Resurrection City after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Media Psychology student and “Roseanne” writer/exec producer Dave Caplan talks to The Hollywood Reporter after the show was cancelled.

MAR 2018

The Today Show interviews Media Psychology alum Diana Graber about the nowpopular Cyber Civics middleschool program she created as her Fielding master’s thesis.

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

D O N O R P RO F I L E

DEVELOPMENT

Staff Member & Monthly Donor Gives Back

S C H O L A R S H I P P RO F I L E

The Margaret Rudolf Endowed International Scholarship

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any of Fielding’s faculty, staff, and trustees choose monthly giving as a powerful way to support Fielding’s programs on an ongoing basis. A monthly taxdeductible gift of $100, for example, makes for a significant $1,200 contribution annually.

Fielding thanks the members of the Founders circle, who have generously designated Fielding in their wills or made a planned gift to ensure Fielding’s future.

We welcome our new members (in bold)!

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ielding alum Margaret Rudolf, ’09, and her spouse Dr. Dana Vanier made a generous contribution to Fielding in 2014 to establish The Margaret Rudolf Endowed International Scholarship in honor of her grandfather.

Q. What inspires your giving?

A. I donate to scholarships at Fielding because I believe in the university’s mission and am committed to advancing high-quality research. I was fortunate to receive scholarships and grants while in graduate school and understand first-hand the financial constraints associated with research and funding education.

“I remember my grandfather, Victor, as a distinguished gentleman who always reminded us of the importance of self-improvement,” she says, “and never gave up in the face of adversity. He survived two world wars, and, having lost all his worldly assets as a result, rebuilt his life and succeeded. Family cohesion, work, and education were the central values that gave meaning to his life. While he is long gone, I never forgot the importance grandfather placed on self-improvement through learning, which is why I am happy to share this value through a modest endowed scholarship in Victor’s name.”

Q. What scholarships and funds have you contributed to?

A. The Ethnic Minority Dissertation Scholarship Fund because it supports the

The scholarship supports new and continuing international students with a priority given to students who would most benefit from additional support for education-related travel expenses.

development of new, creative methodologies that enhance research of ethnic minorities.

The Worldwide Network for Gender Empowerment because it builds a global

network of people who are positioned to support gender equality.

Fielding offers convenient monthly payroll deductions for all Fielding employees.

To find out more or join the program, call 805.898.4022.

Founders Circle BEQUESTS & OTHER PLANNED GIFTS

Fielding’s Senior Institutional Research Analyst Alma Boutin-Martinez, PhD, is a monthly donor and has been contributing generously to our scholarships since she began working here in 2014. For her, it’s a way of giving back.

The Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education because it is a multi-disciplinary space with an emphasis on training the next generation of social justice leaders, and it houses highly prestigious National Science Foundation grants.

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The most recent recipient of the scholarship is Dibendu Ghosh, a Fielding PhD student from Lusaka, Zambia, who is studying in the School of Leadership Studies. Upon completing his graduate studies, Ghosh wants to pursue activist work to stop child labor. His dissertation focuses on research of conditional cash transfers, a cash subsidy given to families in poverty, and their potential to stop child labor in India.

Alma Boutin-Martinez and her family

“The scholarship helped me expedite my coursework completion,” he says. “International students face financial as well as research challenges. There are not enough words to express my gratitude to all the donors who make student scholarships possible.”

If you are interested in contributing to The Margaret Rudolf Endowed International Scholarship or establishing a named scholarship at Fielding, email giving@fielding.edu

Pauline Albert Natalie Ammarell Peggy Azad Nancy Lynn Baker John L. Bennett Valerie Bentz Marvin & Linda Branch Juanita Brown Lynn Bursten Don D. Bushnell Christine Clark Kelly Clark Anna DiStefano D’Ann Downey Nanine Ewing Jeff Frakes Leola Furman Kathy Geller Tracy Gibbons John Gladfelter* Michael Goldstein Sharon Hawley-Crum Linda Honold Roberta Jensen Anne Kratz Diana Kunkel & Trish Cleary Sarah N. MacDougall

Paige and Don Marrs Barbara A. Mather Charles McClintock & Carol Wilburn Sara Miller McCune Pamela S. Meyer Mary Lou Michael Eileen Morgan Christi Olson Wendy Overend Marilyn Price-Mitchell Kathleen Randolph Katrina Rogers Paul and Nancy Shaw Andrea L. Shields Judith Silverstein James E. Skibo Nicola Smith Carol Sommerfield Ted J. Takamura Roland* & Charlotte Troike Pam Van Dyke Patricia Zell *Deceased

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

D O N O R P RO F I L E

DEVELOPMENT

Staff Member & Monthly Donor Gives Back

S C H O L A R S H I P P RO F I L E

The Margaret Rudolf Endowed International Scholarship

M

any of Fielding’s faculty, staff, and trustees choose monthly giving as a powerful way to support Fielding’s programs on an ongoing basis. A monthly taxdeductible gift of $100, for example, makes for a significant $1,200 contribution annually.

Fielding thanks the members of the Founders circle, who have generously designated Fielding in their wills or made a planned gift to ensure Fielding’s future.

We welcome our new members (in bold)!

F

ielding alum Margaret Rudolf, ’09, and her spouse Dr. Dana Vanier made a generous contribution to Fielding in 2014 to establish The Margaret Rudolf Endowed International Scholarship in honor of her grandfather.

Q. What inspires your giving?

A. I donate to scholarships at Fielding because I believe in the university’s mission and am committed to advancing high-quality research. I was fortunate to receive scholarships and grants while in graduate school and understand first-hand the financial constraints associated with research and funding education.

“I remember my grandfather, Victor, as a distinguished gentleman who always reminded us of the importance of self-improvement,” she says, “and never gave up in the face of adversity. He survived two world wars, and, having lost all his worldly assets as a result, rebuilt his life and succeeded. Family cohesion, work, and education were the central values that gave meaning to his life. While he is long gone, I never forgot the importance grandfather placed on self-improvement through learning, which is why I am happy to share this value through a modest endowed scholarship in Victor’s name.”

Q. What scholarships and funds have you contributed to?

A. The Ethnic Minority Dissertation Scholarship Fund because it supports the

The scholarship supports new and continuing international students with a priority given to students who would most benefit from additional support for education-related travel expenses.

development of new, creative methodologies that enhance research of ethnic minorities.

The Worldwide Network for Gender Empowerment because it builds a global

network of people who are positioned to support gender equality.

Fielding offers convenient monthly payroll deductions for all Fielding employees.

To find out more or join the program, call 805.898.4022.

Founders Circle BEQUESTS & OTHER PLANNED GIFTS

Fielding’s Senior Institutional Research Analyst Alma Boutin-Martinez, PhD, is a monthly donor and has been contributing generously to our scholarships since she began working here in 2014. For her, it’s a way of giving back.

The Marie Fielder Center for Democracy, Leadership, and Education because it is a multi-disciplinary space with an emphasis on training the next generation of social justice leaders, and it houses highly prestigious National Science Foundation grants.

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The most recent recipient of the scholarship is Dibendu Ghosh, a Fielding PhD student from Lusaka, Zambia, who is studying in the School of Leadership Studies. Upon completing his graduate studies, Ghosh wants to pursue activist work to stop child labor. His dissertation focuses on research of conditional cash transfers, a cash subsidy given to families in poverty, and their potential to stop child labor in India.

Alma Boutin-Martinez and her family

“The scholarship helped me expedite my coursework completion,” he says. “International students face financial as well as research challenges. There are not enough words to express my gratitude to all the donors who make student scholarships possible.”

If you are interested in contributing to The Margaret Rudolf Endowed International Scholarship or establishing a named scholarship at Fielding, email giving@fielding.edu

Pauline Albert Natalie Ammarell Peggy Azad Nancy Lynn Baker John L. Bennett Valerie Bentz Marvin & Linda Branch Juanita Brown Lynn Bursten Don D. Bushnell Christine Clark Kelly Clark Anna DiStefano D’Ann Downey Nanine Ewing Jeff Frakes Leola Furman Kathy Geller Tracy Gibbons John Gladfelter* Michael Goldstein Sharon Hawley-Crum Linda Honold Roberta Jensen Anne Kratz Diana Kunkel & Trish Cleary Sarah N. MacDougall

Paige and Don Marrs Barbara A. Mather Charles McClintock & Carol Wilburn Sara Miller McCune Pamela S. Meyer Mary Lou Michael Eileen Morgan Christi Olson Wendy Overend Marilyn Price-Mitchell Kathleen Randolph Katrina Rogers Paul and Nancy Shaw Andrea L. Shields Judith Silverstein James E. Skibo Nicola Smith Carol Sommerfield Ted J. Takamura Roland* & Charlotte Troike Pam Van Dyke Patricia Zell *Deceased

DEVELOPMENT

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Thank you, Fielding Supporters!

Fielding thanks the many generous donors who contribute annually to support our students, alumni, and the university as a whole. This alphabetical list reflects all contributions and pledges received from April 13, 2017, to March 15, 2018. Please contact Elena Nicklasson at giving@fielding.edu with any feedback or questions.

Niels and Dorothy Agger-Gupta Pauline Albert, Norman R. Albert Elizabeth Allen Keith and Barbara Alward Julie Anding and Lisa Kornetsky Patricia Arredondo Czarina Azzam Suzanne and Harold Baer John and Susan Bahr Nancy L. Baker Lee Barnes Ana Barrio Christian Batista Manley Begay John Bennett Marcella Benson-Quaziena Scheherezade and Don Black Jon Blassingame Karen Bogart Judy and David Bordin Romagne Boucher Alma Boutin-Martinez Judy Boykin-McCarthy Linda and Marvin Branch Beth Browne Karin Bunnell and Anthony Bettencourt Don D. Bushnell and Julie Lopp Rich Butwinick Lesa Caputo, Beneflex Insurance Services Robin Cash Kelly Clark Eileen Cleary Claude Cloutier Lynne Clyde Dorianne Cotter-Lockard Anna M. DiStefano Elizabeth Downes Keith Earley Kathleen and George Edwards Jennifer Edwards Gregg Eisenberg Fariba Enteshari Patricia Evans April Fallon

Tiffany Field Joseph Foran Linda Ford and Gary Bunevick Luann Fortune Ron and Carole Fox John Fox Cindi and Joel Freeman Marilyn Freimuth Luis Garcia Jeanne and Edward Gavrin Tracy Gibbons Ian Gilmour James Lazarus, Gladys & Ralph Lazarus Foundation Jeanette Godfrey Michael B. and Jinny Goldstein Russell Goodman and Donna Sares Frances Goodrow S. Nelson Gray Robert Green Anthony Greene Barbara Greenleaf Cheri Gurse Elizabeth A. Hardy and Richard Omlor Garry Hare Harley-Davidson Foundation, Inc. April Harris-Britt Robert Hatcher Laura Hauser Raymond Hawkins Sharon Hawley Lenneal and Joyce Henderson Daniel Holland Linda and Reynold Honold R. Hoover William and Linda Husson Kae and Phil Hutchison Szabi Ishtai-Zee Ann Johnson Martha Jones Marsha Kalina Victoria Kaplan Kerul Kassel

Miriam R. Kassel Judith Katz and David Levine Stephen Kay Laura Kelley Gwen Kennedy Stuart Kermes Dianne and Irving Kipnes June Klein Toni Knott Eleanor Komet Zieva and Marc Konvisser Edward Kormandy Marti Kranzberg Lois LaShell and Alan Guskin Susan Lawley Robert TomĂĄs Leal Barbara Leary Judy Lee Kate Leisses Tony LeTrent-Jones Ilan and Barbara Levi Lisa Lewis William Lindberg, The Ashgrove Group Anne Litwin Marianne Locke and Jerrold Moore Milton E. Lopes David and Teresa A. Louie Sandy Lucas Katherine and John Lui Melody and Brian Mah Lee Mahon Randy Marchessault Patricia Marin Paige and Don Marrs Louis and Illa Martucci John Mateja Susan Mazer Smith Charles McClintock and Carol Wilburn Marilyn Mccune Katherine McGraw Pamela McLean Michelle Mehta Weston Milliken Hilary Molina

Nancy Molter Montecito Bank & Trust Audrey Mae Moran-Murphy Edna and Mark S. Mordecai Eileen Morgan David Mullen Elena Nicklasson Julia Noble Mette Norgaardand Alfredo S. Gomez Carl and Dianne M. Oliver Alayne Ormerod Susan Osborn Meris Ota Beverly Palley Wayne Patterson Kay Payne David Peck Michael Pelz-Sherman Sally Peterson and Michael Carlisle Gerald and Gail Porter Marilyn and Jay Price-Mitchell Amy Ramos Kathleen Randolph Rao Family Tami Raubvogel David Rehorick John Robinson Katrina Rogers and William A. Cherry Kjell and Jan Rudestam Kimberly Rust Ken and Jo Saxon, Saxon Family Fund Steven Schapiro and Placida Gallegos Lori Schneider Judith Schoenholtz-Read Kesiah Scully and David Stuart Seres Kim Seashore Pearl Seidman Nancie Senet Constance and Jay Shafran Sushma Sharma Paul and Nancy Shaw Martha Sherman Bill Sherman George and Jeanne Sillup

Judy Silverstein Paula Singer Juliann Smendzuik-O’Brien Nicola E. Smith Monique Snowden Carol Sommerfield Marie Sonnet Georgia Sorenson Beatrice Spector Rebecca Stafford Timothy and Sherry Stanton Jeanne Sterling Judith Stevens-Long and Larry Severance Leila Sullivan Susan Taira Orlando Taylor Sandra Taylor Sona Tazian The Benevity Community Impact Fund Virgine Thomes-Cotter Tolman & Wiker Insurance, Inc. Mary Tomback Union Bank Paul Van Almkerk Sergej Van Middendorp Mary Jean Vignone Joan Vitello-Cicciu Mary Ann von Glinow Gary Wagenheim Ilene Wasserman James Webber Nancy Weisman Dennis White Mary Frances Winters Arlene Falk Withers Judith and Peter Witt Joan Wlodaver Bert & Adrienne Won Lynda Won-Chung Marjorie Woo Pamela Young Patricia Zell

GIFTS IN HONOR OF

Pauline Albert Don Bushnell Anna DiStefano Kerul Kassel Nicola Smith Gary Wagenheim GIFTS IN MEMORY OF

Inge Broveman Stan Caplan Susan Cortez Marie Fielder Will Kouw Gerry Leary Eddie Mordecai Barbara Scales Charlie Seashore Edie Seashore Jody Veroff

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DEVELOPMENT

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Thank you, Fielding Supporters!

Fielding thanks the many generous donors who contribute annually to support our students, alumni, and the university as a whole. This alphabetical list reflects all contributions and pledges received from April 13, 2017, to March 15, 2018. Please contact Elena Nicklasson at giving@fielding.edu with any feedback or questions.

Niels and Dorothy Agger-Gupta Pauline Albert, Norman R. Albert Elizabeth Allen Keith and Barbara Alward Julie Anding and Lisa Kornetsky Patricia Arredondo Czarina Azzam Suzanne and Harold Baer John and Susan Bahr Nancy L. Baker Lee Barnes Ana Barrio Christian Batista Manley Begay John Bennett Marcella Benson-Quaziena Scheherezade and Don Black Jon Blassingame Karen Bogart Judy and David Bordin Romagne Boucher Alma Boutin-Martinez Judy Boykin-McCarthy Linda and Marvin Branch Beth Browne Karin Bunnell and Anthony Bettencourt Don D. Bushnell and Julie Lopp Rich Butwinick Lesa Caputo, Beneflex Insurance Services Robin Cash Kelly Clark Eileen Cleary Claude Cloutier Lynne Clyde Dorianne Cotter-Lockard Anna M. DiStefano Elizabeth Downes Keith Earley Kathleen and George Edwards Jennifer Edwards Gregg Eisenberg Fariba Enteshari Patricia Evans April Fallon

Tiffany Field Joseph Foran Linda Ford and Gary Bunevick Luann Fortune Ron and Carole Fox John Fox Cindi and Joel Freeman Marilyn Freimuth Luis Garcia Jeanne and Edward Gavrin Tracy Gibbons Ian Gilmour James Lazarus, Gladys & Ralph Lazarus Foundation Jeanette Godfrey Michael B. and Jinny Goldstein Russell Goodman and Donna Sares Frances Goodrow S. Nelson Gray Robert Green Anthony Greene Barbara Greenleaf Cheri Gurse Elizabeth A. Hardy and Richard Omlor Garry Hare Harley-Davidson Foundation, Inc. April Harris-Britt Robert Hatcher Laura Hauser Raymond Hawkins Sharon Hawley Lenneal and Joyce Henderson Daniel Holland Linda and Reynold Honold R. Hoover William and Linda Husson Kae and Phil Hutchison Szabi Ishtai-Zee Ann Johnson Martha Jones Marsha Kalina Victoria Kaplan Kerul Kassel

Miriam R. Kassel Judith Katz and David Levine Stephen Kay Laura Kelley Gwen Kennedy Stuart Kermes Dianne and Irving Kipnes June Klein Toni Knott Eleanor Komet Zieva and Marc Konvisser Edward Kormandy Marti Kranzberg Lois LaShell and Alan Guskin Susan Lawley Robert TomĂĄs Leal Barbara Leary Judy Lee Kate Leisses Tony LeTrent-Jones Ilan and Barbara Levi Lisa Lewis William Lindberg, The Ashgrove Group Anne Litwin Marianne Locke and Jerrold Moore Milton E. Lopes David and Teresa A. Louie Sandy Lucas Katherine and John Lui Melody and Brian Mah Lee Mahon Randy Marchessault Patricia Marin Paige and Don Marrs Louis and Illa Martucci John Mateja Susan Mazer Smith Charles McClintock and Carol Wilburn Marilyn Mccune Katherine McGraw Pamela McLean Michelle Mehta Weston Milliken Hilary Molina

Nancy Molter Montecito Bank & Trust Audrey Mae Moran-Murphy Edna and Mark S. Mordecai Eileen Morgan David Mullen Elena Nicklasson Julia Noble Mette Norgaardand Alfredo S. Gomez Carl and Dianne M. Oliver Alayne Ormerod Susan Osborn Meris Ota Beverly Palley Wayne Patterson Kay Payne David Peck Michael Pelz-Sherman Sally Peterson and Michael Carlisle Gerald and Gail Porter Marilyn and Jay Price-Mitchell Amy Ramos Kathleen Randolph Rao Family Tami Raubvogel David Rehorick John Robinson Katrina Rogers and William A. Cherry Kjell and Jan Rudestam Kimberly Rust Ken and Jo Saxon, Saxon Family Fund Steven Schapiro and Placida Gallegos Lori Schneider Judith Schoenholtz-Read Kesiah Scully and David Stuart Seres Kim Seashore Pearl Seidman Nancie Senet Constance and Jay Shafran Sushma Sharma Paul and Nancy Shaw Martha Sherman Bill Sherman George and Jeanne Sillup

Judy Silverstein Paula Singer Juliann Smendzuik-O’Brien Nicola E. Smith Monique Snowden Carol Sommerfield Marie Sonnet Georgia Sorenson Beatrice Spector Rebecca Stafford Timothy and Sherry Stanton Jeanne Sterling Judith Stevens-Long and Larry Severance Leila Sullivan Susan Taira Orlando Taylor Sandra Taylor Sona Tazian The Benevity Community Impact Fund Virgine Thomes-Cotter Tolman & Wiker Insurance, Inc. Mary Tomback Union Bank Paul Van Almkerk Sergej Van Middendorp Mary Jean Vignone Joan Vitello-Cicciu Mary Ann von Glinow Gary Wagenheim Ilene Wasserman James Webber Nancy Weisman Dennis White Mary Frances Winters Arlene Falk Withers Judith and Peter Witt Joan Wlodaver Bert & Adrienne Won Lynda Won-Chung Marjorie Woo Pamela Young Patricia Zell

GIFTS IN HONOR OF

Pauline Albert Don Bushnell Anna DiStefano Kerul Kassel Nicola Smith Gary Wagenheim GIFTS IN MEMORY OF

Inge Broveman Stan Caplan Susan Cortez Marie Fielder Will Kouw Gerry Leary Eddie Mordecai Barbara Scales Charlie Seashore Edie Seashore Jody Veroff

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DEVELOPMENT

NEW SCHOLARSHIPS

Introducing New Scholarships The Valerie Bentz Endowment Fund for Mindful Inquiry & Transformative Phenomenology The Fund was launched in late 2017 by a group of Fielding alumni who wanted to recognize the important work of Dr. Valerie Bentz and invest in research toward a more caring world. Our goal is to raise $100,000 to support the Fund, which will support phenomenological and mindful inquiry practice at Fielding, student scholarships, and educational opportunities for the Fielding community and beyond. Every contributor to the Fund will receive access to a monthly Somatics, Phenomenology, and Communicative Leadership webinar.

The Dr. Sherry L. Hatcher Honorary Scholarship Fund, endowed by Dr. Elizabeth A. Hardy and Mr. Rick Omlor Fielding is proud to announce the establishment of this Fund to support the research of our students. It means a great deal to us that a Fielding alum, Elizabeth A. Hardy, PhD, and her husband, Rick Omlor, have chosen to establish a named scholarship fund in recognition of our beloved faculty member, Sherry L. Hatcher, PhD, and her work at Fielding. Scholarships from the Fund will be awarded to outstanding students in Clinical Psychology at Fielding whose research takes a creative and potentially impactful approach to addressing important problems in the field. In addition to their gift to launch the endowed fund, the donors have pledged a matching gift to inspire more donations. Join us today by making a gift to the Fund, and it will be doubled.

Dr. Dori Pelz-Sherman Memorial Scholarship Fund With the support of several Fielding alumni, Michael Pelz-Sherman established this Fund in memory of his late wife Dori Pelz-Sherman, PhD, who passed away on July 13, 2017. Dori graduated from Fielding in 2010 with her doctorate in Psychology. She was an exemplary representative of our education model. After receiving her degree, Dr. Pelz-Sherman worked to support post-partum mothers struggling with depression, families with special-needs children, and patients with a wide array of mental-health challenges. The funds will be used for an annual student scholarship to new and or continuing students in Clinical Psychology at Fielding.

Scholarships make a huge impact on our students’ lives.

They acknowledge students in a meaningful way, help meet financial challenges, and support important research in social sciences. Contributions to all scholarship funds can be made at fielding.edu/giving.

To find out more, email GIVING@FIELDING.EDU

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Master’s & Certificate Graduates November 1, 2017 – May 1, 2018

SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP STUDIES

SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY

MASTER OF ARTS IN ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT & LEADERSHIP

MASTER OF ARTS IN MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY

Paul A. Freyermuth Susanna George Julie Hodges Vicki L. Hooge Carol Lee R. Jefferson Alena M. LeJeune Lynsey C. Nault Catherine S. North Jennifer M. Sutton Maria S. Velasco CERTIFICATE IN COMPREHENSIVE EVIDENCE BASED COACHING Shari E. Cohen Helene Marie Deschamps Virginie Fernandez Maureen E. Nash Denise Rouse Candace L. Seniw Lori Snyder Carrie-Ann Tkaczyk Bernadette D. Tierney CERTIFICATE IN EVIDENCE BASED COACHING FOR ORGANIZATION LEADERSHIP Keith H. Earley Lisa M. Rey CERTIFICATE IN ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP Julie Hjelm David Rzepinski

Mona Bahgat Erin A. Fox-Ramirez Diane Morris Jeremiah Prevatte CERTIFICATE IN MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY WITH AN EMPHASIS IN BRAND PSYCHOLOGY & AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT Eileen Grace L. Ascano Nicolette Stosur-Bassett

CERTIFICATE IN MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY WITH AN EMPHASIS IN MEDIA NEUROSCIENCE Kathleen E. Bazile CERTIFICATE IN MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY WITH AN EMPHASIS IN BOTH BRAND PSYCHOLOGY & AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT AND MEDIA NEUROSCIENCE Keitha A. Maciel CERTIFICATE IN CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY Erika L. Stannard CERTIFICATE IN RESPECIALIZATION IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Christina L. Fales Valerie E. Stone POSTBACCALAUREATE CERTIFICATE IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Javier Borrayo, Jr. Jessica A. Cardinalli Janette L. Duffy Tanishia V. Greene Shannon L. Harper Jamie Hernon Christa L. Hill Hyungbum Kang Ellen Knott-Van Den Berg Katrina Kopeck Christina Lawrence Elizabeth Mariscal Patricia Mojdara Meera Patel John G. Pavlus, Jr. Jellylu Perez Ellie Peskosky Nicky W. Petersen Bethel Quick Megan M. Tenney Sheila Turner Bettie Williams Tralyece A. Wright

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

DEVELOPMENT

NEW SCHOLARSHIPS

Introducing New Scholarships The Valerie Bentz Endowment Fund for Mindful Inquiry & Transformative Phenomenology The Fund was launched in late 2017 by a group of Fielding alumni who wanted to recognize the important work of Dr. Valerie Bentz and invest in research toward a more caring world. Our goal is to raise $100,000 to support the Fund, which will support phenomenological and mindful inquiry practice at Fielding, student scholarships, and educational opportunities for the Fielding community and beyond. Every contributor to the Fund will receive access to a monthly Somatics, Phenomenology, and Communicative Leadership webinar.

The Dr. Sherry L. Hatcher Honorary Scholarship Fund, endowed by Dr. Elizabeth A. Hardy and Mr. Rick Omlor Fielding is proud to announce the establishment of this Fund to support the research of our students. It means a great deal to us that a Fielding alum, Elizabeth A. Hardy, PhD, and her husband, Rick Omlor, have chosen to establish a named scholarship fund in recognition of our beloved faculty member, Sherry L. Hatcher, PhD, and her work at Fielding. Scholarships from the Fund will be awarded to outstanding students in Clinical Psychology at Fielding whose research takes a creative and potentially impactful approach to addressing important problems in the field. In addition to their gift to launch the endowed fund, the donors have pledged a matching gift to inspire more donations. Join us today by making a gift to the Fund, and it will be doubled.

Dr. Dori Pelz-Sherman Memorial Scholarship Fund With the support of several Fielding alumni, Michael Pelz-Sherman established this Fund in memory of his late wife Dori Pelz-Sherman, PhD, who passed away on July 13, 2017. Dori graduated from Fielding in 2010 with her doctorate in Psychology. She was an exemplary representative of our education model. After receiving her degree, Dr. Pelz-Sherman worked to support post-partum mothers struggling with depression, families with special-needs children, and patients with a wide array of mental-health challenges. The funds will be used for an annual student scholarship to new and or continuing students in Clinical Psychology at Fielding.

Scholarships make a huge impact on our students’ lives.

They acknowledge students in a meaningful way, help meet financial challenges, and support important research in social sciences. Contributions to all scholarship funds can be made at fielding.edu/giving.

To find out more, email GIVING@FIELDING.EDU

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Master’s & Certificate Graduates November 1, 2017 – May 1, 2018

SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP STUDIES

SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY

MASTER OF ARTS IN ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT & LEADERSHIP

MASTER OF ARTS IN MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY

Paul A. Freyermuth Susanna George Julie Hodges Vicki L. Hooge Carol Lee R. Jefferson Alena M. LeJeune Lynsey C. Nault Catherine S. North Jennifer M. Sutton Maria S. Velasco CERTIFICATE IN COMPREHENSIVE EVIDENCE BASED COACHING Shari E. Cohen Helene Marie Deschamps Virginie Fernandez Maureen E. Nash Denise Rouse Candace L. Seniw Lori Snyder Carrie-Ann Tkaczyk Bernadette D. Tierney CERTIFICATE IN EVIDENCE BASED COACHING FOR ORGANIZATION LEADERSHIP Keith H. Earley Lisa M. Rey CERTIFICATE IN ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP Julie Hjelm David Rzepinski

Mona Bahgat Erin A. Fox-Ramirez Diane Morris Jeremiah Prevatte CERTIFICATE IN MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY WITH AN EMPHASIS IN BRAND PSYCHOLOGY & AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT Eileen Grace L. Ascano Nicolette Stosur-Bassett

CERTIFICATE IN MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY WITH AN EMPHASIS IN MEDIA NEUROSCIENCE Kathleen E. Bazile CERTIFICATE IN MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY WITH AN EMPHASIS IN BOTH BRAND PSYCHOLOGY & AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT AND MEDIA NEUROSCIENCE Keitha A. Maciel CERTIFICATE IN CLINICAL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY Erika L. Stannard CERTIFICATE IN RESPECIALIZATION IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Christina L. Fales Valerie E. Stone POSTBACCALAUREATE CERTIFICATE IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY Javier Borrayo, Jr. Jessica A. Cardinalli Janette L. Duffy Tanishia V. Greene Shannon L. Harper Jamie Hernon Christa L. Hill Hyungbum Kang Ellen Knott-Van Den Berg Katrina Kopeck Christina Lawrence Elizabeth Mariscal Patricia Mojdara Meera Patel John G. Pavlus, Jr. Jellylu Perez Ellie Peskosky Nicky W. Petersen Bethel Quick Megan M. Tenney Sheila Turner Bettie Williams Tralyece A. Wright

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Doctoral Graduates

November 1, 2017 – May 1, 2018 SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP STUDIES EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE

Rani August, EdD The Convergence of

Mindfulness & Well-Being: An Exploration of a District-Wide Mindfulness Initiative for Educators

Nathaniel E. Bankirer, EdD Evaluation of a Teacher Technology Training Program for Elementary Teachers in a Private School Setting Mariaelena Diaz, EdD Barriers and Solutions to Obtaining an Education: Stories of Mexican Child Labor Jean Gradias, EdD Exploring How a Joint Science Specialist/TOSA Can Change Classroom Teachers’ Instructional Practices through Project-Based Learning Marnisha Henry, EdD Living Life Like It’s Golden with Disability: Case Studies of Independent Living Marnie Melendez, EdD

A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Latina Engineering Students at a Community College

Judith Sullivan Osterhage, EdD The

Importance of Trauma Informed Education for Foster & Adoptive Parents

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Donald J. Asher, PhD “You Can

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE

Only Play So Much Golf ”: The Retirement Experiences of People Who Really Love Their Work

Suzanne M. Begin, PhD Being Recognized: A Mindful Inquiry

Jason Geoffrion, PhD Defining a Masculine Self: A Phenomenological Study on the Impact of Men’s Retreats

Analysis of Emergent Organizational Identity Claims in Self-Described Successful Organizations

Pete A. Saunders, PhD Waking Up While Black: How a Jamaican Border-Dwelling Bredda Makes Meaning of His Camino De Santiago Pilgrimage

Erek J. Ostrowski, PhD Coming in from

Beckey D. Sukovaty, PhD From Blamescaping to Hope: How Mediators Help Clients Cooperate Toward Mutual Resolution of Disputes

INFANT & EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT WITH AN EMPHASIS IN MENTAL HEALTH & DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

Tonya R. Tate, PhD From Foster Care to

Yolanda Lusane, PhD Is the Effect of

Freshman Year: Foster Youth’s Perspectives on the Transition and Adaptation to College HUMAN AND ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS

Uzma S. Burki, PhD Muslim Women as U.S. Organizational Leaders: An Intersectional Study

Erika Jacobi, PhD A Cognitive-Linguistic

the Cold: The Experience of Group Coaching as a Setting for Entrepreneurial Learning & Change

Andrew A. Gauler, PhD Therapist

Self-Disclosure: Impressions of Therapists’ Attractiveness, Expertness, & Trustworthiness

Synita M. Hudgins, PhD An Examination of Race-Based Criminal Justice System Experiences & Legitimacy Josette A. Iribarne, PhD

Understanding the Effects of Chronic Pain on Intellectual Functioning

Colleen S. Rustad, PhD Civic

Engagement as a Component of Generativity: An Exploratory Study of the Narrative Identities of Community Leaders

Wing Si Mok, PhD Impact of Maternal

Cheryl Rock, PhD Where Do We Go

Michael B. Warren, PhD Prospective Memory Performance in Patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with & without Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Depressive Symptoms & Quality of Interactive Behaviors on Social Emotional Problems of Toddlers on Autism Spectrum…

Amy I. Chiang, PhD “All You Have to Do

From Here? Exploring the Contributing Factors Affecting Social-Emotional Development

Debra W. McClendon, PhD

Bridget R. Turner, PhD Raising Awareness of Reflective Functioning Among African American Single Mothers

The Impact of Ambient Sound on Emotions

SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY

Linda A. Durnell, PhD Emotional Reaction of Experiencing Crisis in Virtual Reality (VR)/360°

Is Stand Tall:” A Narrative Inquiry into the Process of Embodiment & Liberation

The Effects of Integrating Value Cognition & Electroencephalogram Neurofeedback: The Impact on Stress & Engagement

Deborah J. Tasker-Brady, EdD The

Andrea G. Dennis McCormick, PhD

Carine Ullom, EdD Developing

Deepa Patel, PhD Spirituality and Work:

A Phenomenological Study of Black Clinicians’ Experience Developing Cultural Competency

Wendy Tao, PhD An Exploration of

John A. Etling, PhD Impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress on Self-Efficacy & Outcome Expectancy for Therapists Treating Sexual Abuse Victims & Offenders

Staying Me: A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experience of Eudaimonic Purpose in Female Caregivers at Midlife

Preservice Teacher Global Citizen Identity: The Role of Globally Networked Learning

A Qualitative Study of Hotel Operators

Victoria Yazzie, EdD Dine Bich’eeke’

the Individualization of Post-1980s Young Adults in China: Contradictory Modernity & Ensemble Individualism

Doo Asdzani Idliigi (Miss Navajo Nation and Navajo Womanhood)

Time of Autism Diagnosis: The Impact of Maternal Coping Style and Personal Control

Stacey C. Snead, PhD The Effects of Parental Involvement on the Developmental Outcomes of Preschool Children in a Sample of West Alabama Head Start Children

Infant Massage Different Based on Gender?

Mallory H. Price, EdD Interactive Writing Interventions in a Writing Workshop: Supporting English Learners in Kindergarten Hindman Settlement School: An Historical Case Study of Experimental Education in Appalachia

Virginia A. Evans, PhD Variability in

PSYCHOLOGY WITH AN EMPHASIS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Ciara J. Dennis, PhD

PSYCHOLOGY WITH AN EMPHASIS IN MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY

Colleen M. Cleveland, PhD

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WHERE WE LIVE & WORK | 2018

FIELDING GRADUATE UNIVERSITY | www.fielding.edu

Doctoral Graduates

November 1, 2017 – May 1, 2018 SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP STUDIES EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE

Rani August, EdD The Convergence of

Mindfulness & Well-Being: An Exploration of a District-Wide Mindfulness Initiative for Educators

Nathaniel E. Bankirer, EdD Evaluation of a Teacher Technology Training Program for Elementary Teachers in a Private School Setting Mariaelena Diaz, EdD Barriers and Solutions to Obtaining an Education: Stories of Mexican Child Labor Jean Gradias, EdD Exploring How a Joint Science Specialist/TOSA Can Change Classroom Teachers’ Instructional Practices through Project-Based Learning Marnisha Henry, EdD Living Life Like It’s Golden with Disability: Case Studies of Independent Living Marnie Melendez, EdD

A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Latina Engineering Students at a Community College

Judith Sullivan Osterhage, EdD The

Importance of Trauma Informed Education for Foster & Adoptive Parents

HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Donald J. Asher, PhD “You Can

ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE

Only Play So Much Golf ”: The Retirement Experiences of People Who Really Love Their Work

Suzanne M. Begin, PhD Being Recognized: A Mindful Inquiry

Jason Geoffrion, PhD Defining a Masculine Self: A Phenomenological Study on the Impact of Men’s Retreats

Analysis of Emergent Organizational Identity Claims in Self-Described Successful Organizations

Pete A. Saunders, PhD Waking Up While Black: How a Jamaican Border-Dwelling Bredda Makes Meaning of His Camino De Santiago Pilgrimage

Erek J. Ostrowski, PhD Coming in from

Beckey D. Sukovaty, PhD From Blamescaping to Hope: How Mediators Help Clients Cooperate Toward Mutual Resolution of Disputes

INFANT & EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT WITH AN EMPHASIS IN MENTAL HEALTH & DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

Tonya R. Tate, PhD From Foster Care to

Yolanda Lusane, PhD Is the Effect of

Freshman Year: Foster Youth’s Perspectives on the Transition and Adaptation to College HUMAN AND ORGANIZATIONAL SYSTEMS

Uzma S. Burki, PhD Muslim Women as U.S. Organizational Leaders: An Intersectional Study

Erika Jacobi, PhD A Cognitive-Linguistic

the Cold: The Experience of Group Coaching as a Setting for Entrepreneurial Learning & Change

Andrew A. Gauler, PhD Therapist

Self-Disclosure: Impressions of Therapists’ Attractiveness, Expertness, & Trustworthiness

Synita M. Hudgins, PhD An Examination of Race-Based Criminal Justice System Experiences & Legitimacy Josette A. Iribarne, PhD

Understanding the Effects of Chronic Pain on Intellectual Functioning

Colleen S. Rustad, PhD Civic

Engagement as a Component of Generativity: An Exploratory Study of the Narrative Identities of Community Leaders

Wing Si Mok, PhD Impact of Maternal

Cheryl Rock, PhD Where Do We Go

Michael B. Warren, PhD Prospective Memory Performance in Patients with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder with & without Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Depressive Symptoms & Quality of Interactive Behaviors on Social Emotional Problems of Toddlers on Autism Spectrum…

Amy I. Chiang, PhD “All You Have to Do

From Here? Exploring the Contributing Factors Affecting Social-Emotional Development

Debra W. McClendon, PhD

Bridget R. Turner, PhD Raising Awareness of Reflective Functioning Among African American Single Mothers

The Impact of Ambient Sound on Emotions

SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY

Linda A. Durnell, PhD Emotional Reaction of Experiencing Crisis in Virtual Reality (VR)/360°

Is Stand Tall:” A Narrative Inquiry into the Process of Embodiment & Liberation

The Effects of Integrating Value Cognition & Electroencephalogram Neurofeedback: The Impact on Stress & Engagement

Deborah J. Tasker-Brady, EdD The

Andrea G. Dennis McCormick, PhD

Carine Ullom, EdD Developing

Deepa Patel, PhD Spirituality and Work:

A Phenomenological Study of Black Clinicians’ Experience Developing Cultural Competency

Wendy Tao, PhD An Exploration of

John A. Etling, PhD Impact of Secondary Traumatic Stress on Self-Efficacy & Outcome Expectancy for Therapists Treating Sexual Abuse Victims & Offenders

Staying Me: A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experience of Eudaimonic Purpose in Female Caregivers at Midlife

Preservice Teacher Global Citizen Identity: The Role of Globally Networked Learning

A Qualitative Study of Hotel Operators

Victoria Yazzie, EdD Dine Bich’eeke’

the Individualization of Post-1980s Young Adults in China: Contradictory Modernity & Ensemble Individualism

Doo Asdzani Idliigi (Miss Navajo Nation and Navajo Womanhood)

Time of Autism Diagnosis: The Impact of Maternal Coping Style and Personal Control

Stacey C. Snead, PhD The Effects of Parental Involvement on the Developmental Outcomes of Preschool Children in a Sample of West Alabama Head Start Children

Infant Massage Different Based on Gender?

Mallory H. Price, EdD Interactive Writing Interventions in a Writing Workshop: Supporting English Learners in Kindergarten Hindman Settlement School: An Historical Case Study of Experimental Education in Appalachia

Virginia A. Evans, PhD Variability in

PSYCHOLOGY WITH AN EMPHASIS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Ciara J. Dennis, PhD

PSYCHOLOGY WITH AN EMPHASIS IN MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY

Colleen M. Cleveland, PhD

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