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My qualifications include a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and Counselor Education from the University of Colorado at Denver with an emphasis in College Student Personnel (1996). As a member of this program I was instructed and trained in the broad interdisciplinary field of leadership pedagogy. Furthermore, I am designated by the State of Colorado as a Licensed Professional Counselor (License # 3053). In this capacity I am recognized for my knowledge acquisition, practice of, and expertise in assisting individuals in their exploration of self and others; relationship and team building; clarification of ethics, morals and values; and the integration and wellbeing of mind, body and soul – all key components in the development of today's leaders. I am an avid downhill skier that enjoys traveling with my partner of 15 years. Although somewhat shy during initial encounters, I am quite receptive and invite you all to seek me out for assistance on your journey to becoming the outstanding leaders you will be in the 21 st Century. I commend you for selecting to participate in the Chancellor's Leadership Residential Academic Program.
I help students with course registration, assist staff as needed and fulfill the operations of the program office. My personal interests include gardening, hiking, cross country skiing and exploring the canyons of Utah.
I view my work, both personally and professionally, as a continuation of social justice work that remains incomplete in our country and now extends to the entire globe through neo-liberal economic policies, known as globalization. I am especially interested in how we can talk across the differences that seem to divide us both locally and globally. My own intellectual interests, though most at home in Philosophy, are inter-disciplinary and reflect work in Economics, Welfare and Labor History, Critical Race Theory, Masculinity Studies, Third World Feminism, etc.
As President of Hands On Resources, LLC, a Training and Experiential Development Firm located in Boulder, CO, I have focused on developing teams and leaders through interactive workshops and interventions. We have worked with the University of Colorado students including the CU MBA program and other campus leadership programs for many years. In addition to my work with Hands On, I am a performance consultant for a large telecom and have the opportunity to work with executive leadership teams to foster strong organizational cultures for sustained business growth. My leadership passion revolves around Servant Leadership, or leadership in the service of others. Each year I travel to El Salvador to volunteer on an “eye campaign” which helps rural El Salvadorans receive proper eye care. This experience has been both rewarding and humbling. I have a B.S. in Environmental Management and an M.S.M. in Organizational Leadership.
I teach in the department of Ethnic Studies, the
I am a Senior Instructor in the Department of Political Science and have been teaching at the university level for 20 years. This year, I am teaching six undergraduate courses at CU Boulder and two graduate classes at CU Denver. American Politics and Political Theory are my main subject areas. I direct the Internship Program in the Political Science department that places 70 to 80 students per year with legislators, interest groups, government agencies and political campaigns. I believe that my first responsibility in teaching American Politics is sufficiently exposing students to the structures and functions of the American system to be able to understand its operation. The small size of the Chancellor's Leadership RAP classes offers the opportunity to build on the classroom experience by taking students for on-site visits at government institutions, having guest speakers, and student discussions and presentations. These additional activities will allow a certain level of critical evaluation of our political system that is not usually possible in an introductory course.
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Carol Miyagishima, Director - For the past several years I have divided my time between teaching at the university and working in community based organizations. I have also had the pleasure of working with numerous organizations from South pole bound scientists to large corporations to assist them with systems issues and team performance. My biggest joy however is teaching and seeking ways to bring my background in community service management and outdoor experiential education into the classroom. 
Steven Medina - ELLC Program Coordinator - I have been a member of the University of Colorado community for 23 years in numerous capacities beginning in 1984 as a student living in Williams Village. I am a first-generation and a Chicano from a poor/working class background originating out of Pueblo, Colorado. I am deeply committed to the students that I serve and I strive to give back to and advocate for the communities that I represent from my current privileged spaces as highly educated and currently upper middle-class. I am equally proud and secure in my identity as a gay male. 
Sue Haran - Program Assistant - I love working with the incredible students and staff at the Chancellor's
Leadership RAP. Each fall I look forward to welcoming our new students at Williams Village. It's always inspiring to meet young people who are committed to making positive changes in the world.
Lisa Bates - Philosophy 
Jorge Gibbons - Leadership Instructor - I am an experiential educator with more than 20 years of experience working internationally with different groups and organizations. I was born in Argentina but moved to Brazil in 1995 where I worked as executive director of an NGO. In Brazil I also worked as senior consultant and facilitator of Dinsmore Associates, pioneer of experiential education in South America. 
Ted Connolly- Leadership Instructor -
I have fifteen years experience in the field of leadership development. 
Tanya Greathouse - University Counselor and Leadership Instructor - I have resided in the Boulder area since 1968 and have been a mental health clinician in Boulder for more than 20 years, joining the University of Colorado at Boulder community in 1993. My first 9 years at CU I worked at Wardenburg Health Center in the mental health clinic then moved to my current position as Staff Psychologist at Counseling and Psychological Services: A Multicultural Center. I joined the Chancellor's Leadership RAP community in fall of 2003, teaching classes for the ELLC program. I taught at Smith College in the School for Social Work, from 1998-2004, and continue to provide Field Advising and Clinical Supervision to Smith College, School for Social Work interns in the Boulder/Denver area.
I also have a private practice in Niwot, Colorado.
Stewart Lawler - Instructor, African Americans in the Arts and American Ethnic Literature - I wasn’t a typical 60s drop out: I dropped out of the Ph.D. Program at the University of Michigan, where I had received my M.A. in English Literature. And in 2000, I completed a Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Kansas in African American and Ethnic Studies. African-American culture calls that “going round for long” and that is a good thing. Rumi, the Sufi poet, echoes that when he says, “Don’t be fooled - the short cut to the King’s house is a thousand miles out of the way.” Between times, I’ve been a bookseller, an inner-city neighborhood center director, an Ozark “farmer,” a clay artist, a bookseller, and teacher. My dissertation and work is about Black expressive culture as a polyvocal, polyrhythmic polygenre performance for power, whether on the gridiron, basketball court, boxing ring, concert stage, Black rodeo, dancehall on Saturday night, church on Sunday, or even in a literary text. And its origins are West and Central African.
William Takamatsu Thompson - Ethnic Studies Instructor 
Thad Tecza - Political Sciences