Associate, Adjunct and Affiliate Faculty, Liberal Studies

Jeff Birdsall, B.S., Lesley University/Audubon Expedition Institute; M.A., Naropa University; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Jeff Birdsall has extensive experience in leadership development programs and has been facilitating groups, teaching, and directing national service and environmental education programs over the past twenty years. He leads trainings for national service programs and nonprofits throughout the country and also serves as an adjunct instructor in Brown University's Leadership Institute. He is passionate about facilitating students' personal, intellectual and spiritual development in their journeys to become effective, caring and responsible leaders in their social and ecological communities.

Elizabeth Burke, B.S., Illinois State University; M.A., Antioch University Seattle; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Burke is a skilled professional with 25 years of project management, strategic planning, coaching, facilitating and consulting experience. She specializes in work with organizations wanting to revitalize themselves and pursue creative new endeavors and individuals wishing to grow beyond their current horizons. She helps organizations and people explore and tell their stories. She regularly leads digital storytelling classes and workshops and teaches writing classes. Burke is also a licensed massage practitioner with a private Asian bodywork practice.

Mary Coss, B.F.A., Eastern Michigan University; M.F.A., Syracuse University; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Mary Coss's background in sculpture and interdisciplinary studies inspires her belief in the power of art to transform individuals and communities. Her extensive experience in fine arts, design, public and community art contribute to her commitment to infuse art into public housing as a way to humanize the built environment and support social justice. Her extensive exhibition record includes several sculpture parks and public collections in Washington and California. Artwork is viewable at www.marycoss.com.

Carmen D'Arcangelo, B.A., Harvard College; M.B.A, Simmons Graduate School of Management; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Carmen D'Arcangelo is a collaborative leader with progressively responsible management experience in fluid, diverse nonprofit and for-profit organizations. She demonstrated high value-add in steering employee/management/volunteer relations, implementing new programs and leading with business acumen and financial considerations in mind. She has an ardent commitment to building healthy and supportive communities through sustainable communication.

Amy Hale, B.A., Brown University; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Amy Hale is a behavioral scientist whose research interests include the interplay between decision-making, behavior and subsequent effects on environmental health. Her doctoral training focused on the role of prefrontal brain regions on working memory. Throughout her training, Hale provided career counseling, specializing in career transitions for Ph.D.-level, post-graduate and alumni populations. She has taught career management, neuroscience, developmental psychology and health psychology courses. Hale is currently exploring the interaction between individual and global wellness through her Seattle-based behavioral strategies consulting practice.

Talal S. Hattar, B.A., University of Texas at Austin; M.A., University of Washington; M.A., Georgetown University; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Talal Hattar is presently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington. His dissertation deals with violent identity conflict in the Levant. He has extensive background in political economy.

Marya Sea Kaminski, B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.F.A., University of Washington; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Marya Sea Kaminski is a performer, director and writer based in Seattle. She was named an "Artist of the Year" by Seattle Magazine in 2007, awarded "Best Local Stage Actor" in 2008 and "Best Performing Artist" in 2006 by the readers of the Seattle Weekly, and honored thrice on the Theatre Short List for The Stranger's Genius Awards. Her acting credits are numerous and include lead roles at Washington Ensemble Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Intiman, La Mama ETC in New York City, as well as solo performances at On the Boards. Kaminski also teaches acting at Cornish College of the Arts, where she was recently honored with the Drama department's Award for Teaching Excellence.

Lisa Lynch, Ph.D., Union Institute & University; adjunct faculty, liberal studies, associate faculty, psychology. Lynch is the program coordinator of the Ecopsychology concentration of the Integrated Studies Program in the School of Applied Psychology. The focus of her dissertation, Restoring the River: An Ecopscychological Novel and Contextual Essay, was on the use of fiction to explore and illustrate environmental issues surrounding a river in central Oregon. Lynch is the former interim chair of the Integrative Studies in Psychology program and has taught ecopsychology at Antioch Seattle and for Union Graduate school. She is looking forward to continuing to offer her courses in ecopsychology and exploring the many ways this perspective can inform the lives and professions of her students.

Phoenix Raine, B.A., Fairhaven College, WWU; MEd., Antioch University Seattle; ABD., Pacifica Graduate Institute; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Phoenix Raine's focus on intercultural and interdisciplinary education has led her to a Depth Psychological methodology that enhances her pedagogical approach to social justice. To explore her belief that there is a need for a therapeutic sensibility to address oppression and that educators can also be considered cultural healers, her dissertation is focused on the Confluence Project memorials along the Columbia River as places of cross-cultural healing.

Glen Slater, B.A., M. Phil., University of Sydney; Ph.D., Pacifica Graduate Institute; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Glen Slater has been teaching depth psychology for the past fifteen years, specializing in Jungian and archetypal studies. His research and writing interests include psychology and religion, psychology and contemporary culture, and psyche and film. He edited and introduced the third volume of James Hillman's Uniform Edition of writings, edited (with Dennis Patrick Slattery) Varieties of Mythic Experience, and has written a number of articles on topics ranging from gun violence to cyborgs.  

Susanne Sturm, B.A., M.A.A.B.S., Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS); adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Susanne Sturm has been a consultant and educator in the field of psychology and community education for the past twenty-five years. Currently, she provides academic and creative writing assistance to undergraduate and graduate students with various learning and writing challenges. She has special interest in developing plans, objectives and strategies to help students with academic challenges decrease anxiety about all aspects of learning and writing in order to have successful educational experiences.

Ken Turner, A.A., Peninsula Community College; additional training at Kansas City Art Institute; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Ken Turner has been a professional potter for more than 25 years and has more than 30 years experience working with clay. He is also on the faculty at Bellevue Community College and teaches at Moshier Art Center, with more than nine years of teaching experience. He has exhibited nationally and his work is represented in private and corporate collections. While expansive in his work, he is most famous for his decorative ceramics with gold and platinum embellishments.

Kenneth O. Turner, B.S., Georgia Tech; M.Ed., University of Georgia-Athens; adjunct faculty, liberal studies. Kenneth Turner has a wide range of science teaching experience, from health/physical education to Outward Bound, ropes courses and mountaineering. He is a member of National Ski Patrol, Seattle Mountain Rescue and the Association for Experiential Education. Turner's mission statement: "To impel my students, colleagues, friends and myself into challenging environments that are fun, safe and educational."