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Andersen Pinckney

Biography

Andersen is a Game Design graduate from Champlain College’s class of 2020. He has worked as an aerospace software engineer for Saber Astronautics, a project manager for the DoD, and in production for Rockstar Games. He has been an adjunct professor for Champlain College since Fall 2021.

Favorite Quote

“Shake and bake, baby!”

–Ricky Bobby

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Kimberly Polite

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For the last 29 years, Dr. Kimberly Polite has built her career in business and Higher Education Administration as a leader in training and development, management, project management, sales, marketing, and team engagement. She is also a veteran.

Kimberly holds a doctorate in Business Administration from Walden University, a Master of Education in Management as well as a Bachelor of English, both from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She currently teaches and trains in business and educational organizations on strategic change management and employee engagement.

Her concentration areas include research on employee engagement and what factors contribute to increased engagement and productivity.

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Raymond Presky

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Ray is originally from London, England, and moved to the USA in 1979. Married since 1982, his wife is from Japan, they have 3 children, all of them have left home years ago, so he is an empty nester with extra time. He enjoys teaching at Champlain and like getting to know the students.

He was a self-employed store owner for 15 years, it was a lot of work, enjoyable but stressful. He considers himself fortunate to have fallen into networking and security engineering around 2000.

He is currently working for a large ISP and has been working in Networking, Security and Communications since 2000. He has worked with Telco, Fiber-Optic and Cable Companies and covered all aspects of networking and security from the user to the internet and lots in between.

Favorite Quote

“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”

—1 Corinthians 17:7

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Claire Preston

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Claire Preston is an Adjunct Professor at Champlain College where she teaches Animation History. She holds an M.A. from Goldsmiths, University of London in Virtual and Augmented Reality and a B.A. in Studio Art and English from Kenyon College. She is a passionate researcher and artist with a strong interest in storytelling forms. She has worked to develop Virtual Reality research projects in a variety of fields and is invested in educating students in the possibilities present in emerging technology. In her free time, Claire enjoys working on creative stop motion animation projects and exploring the beautiful outdoors of the Upper Valley, where she resides.

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Melissa Proietti

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Melissa Proietti obtained her PhD from McGill University in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education. Her research documents the development of the visual urban arts and a gallery space within the context of a wider shift in a school’s transformation towards becoming an urban arts concentration school. Through her research, she identifies the curatorial process as a useful tool in engaging learners and highlights this process as a form of YPAR, called YPAC (youth participatory action curation), which have also informed her teaching practice. Melissa has been working in formal and informal educational contexts for nearly 20 years with diverse learners of all ages. Melissa worked with the Under Pressure International Graffiti Festival for 15 years (of its 30-year existence) and now runs Queens Creation, an all-women’s hip hop event in Montreal. These years of work have given her an important and unique perspective on everything related to graffiti and street art in Montreal and abroad. Having worked with artists from all over the world, Melissa has helped to produce conferences, panels, large-scale murals, and works closely with city officials, often being invited to sit on consultation committees pertaining to these types of art.

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Willard Sterne Randall

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Favorite Quote

“Do the best you can with what you have, where you are.”

—Theodore Roosevelt

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Rachel Rappazzo

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John Rasmussen

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John Rasmussen is an Associate Professor for Visual and Performing Arts: Film & Photographic Arts in the Division of Communication & Creative Media. He is a filmmaker working in narrative, documentary, and experimental forms. His work ranges from project documentation for organizations such as Oxfam, The United Nation to grassroots local narrative filmmaking in the U.S. Haiti, and Italy. Rasmussen’s work has been exhibited in festivals in Mexico, Haiti, France, Canada, China, and the United States.

Professional & Scholastic Affiliations

University Film and Video Association

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Recommended Reading, Listening & Viewing

• La Chien by Jean Renoir
• My Last Sigh by Luis Buñuel

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Jimmy Reeves

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Kenneth Revett

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Kristine Reynolds

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Kristine (Kris) Reynolds (She/Her/Hers) is the Director and Founder of the Vermont Center for Resiliency. She received her Masters Degree in Social Work from Colorado State University and has been working in the mental health field for over 18 years.

She has experience in EMDR, CBT, and mindfulness. It was while working with Veterans in Colorado that Kris found her niche working with individuals who had experienced major stressors and trauma. In addition to specialization in working with individuals who have experienced complex trauma, Kris specializes in the treatment of anxiety, mood disorders, relationship conflicts, and serves children, adolescents, adults, and the elderly.

In addition to individual psychotherapy, she facilitates group, couples, family therapy, and provides supervision to clinicians working towards licensure. Kris teaches courses as an Adjunct Instructor in the School of Social Innovation at Champlain College.

Kris is an avid runner and enjoys all things outdoors, and spending time with her family which includes the furry and feathered variety as well as the human.

Professional & Scholastic Affiliations

National Association of Social Workers

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Christopher Riddell

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Dr. Christopher Riddell is a twenty-year veteran having served 12 years with the U.S. Coast Guard and eight years with the U.S. Navy. Riddell has approximately 30 years’ combined experience behind the lectern. He has been in higher education for 18 years and served as an instructor at various military commands earning him the title of Master Training Specialist (select) for both services. He earned both his master’s degrees from Utica College in Economic Crime Management and his second in the field of Cyber Policy and Risk Analysis. He earned his doctorate in Law and Policy from Northeastern University. Riddell is also a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Distinctions & Awards

Adjunct Faculty Award, Utica College-2017

Director’s Award For Teaching, Utica College-2009

Master Training Specialist (select), United States Navy-1992

Master Training Specialist (select), United States Coast Guard-1985

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Flavio Rizzo

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Flavio Rizzo has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and an Italian Laurea in Cinema Studies from Roma Tre University. Before joining Champlain College, Flavio was an Assistant Professor in the Center for Global Communication Strategies at the University of Tokyo where he was part of its faculty in the Japan in East Asia Program. He also taught Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the City University of New York.

Flavio is also a writer and filmmaker. Among other works, he has a documentary on Pier Paolo Pasolini (recognized with the Cinema Avvenire Award during the 53rd Venice Film Festival) and a documentary on the Coca Wars in Bolivia.

His research is currently focusing on cinematic and literary representations of seclusion; it concentrates on exploring contemporary forms of seclusion by putting the radical act of retreating from the world into the larger context of contemporary hyper-connectivity, networked and narcissistic digital narratives, and both commercially motivated and sincere forms of neo-spiritualisms. As part of this study, he has been tackling the Hikikomori phenomenon in Japan; he focuses on the juxtaposition of what he sees as postmodern hermits and the hyper-connected container in which they live. He is interested in analyzing the very specific iconographic space that emerges from this encounter-collision.

His areas of concentration rotate around interdisciplinary approaches and include:

He is a staunch supporter of Lazio, the team that in 1900 brought football to the city of Rome.

Publications & Abstracts

2021 “Re-inventing isolation, Imagining the other in seclusion” Essays in Otherness – Aarhus University, co-author

2019 “Unlocking Hikikomori: an Interdisciplinary Approach” Journal of Youth Studies, Volume 22, No 06, Taylor & Francis, co-author

2018 “Migrant Crisis: One Day We Will Have a Language for This” Africa is a Country, May 2nd

2016 “Hikikomori: the Postmodern Hermits of Japan”  Warscapes, June 14th

2016 “Student-Centered Teaching: Writing Through Passion” Komaba Journal of English Education, Volume 7, University of Tokyo, co-author

2015 “The New Paladins of the Humanities: A Warning”  Warscapes, June 28th

2013 “Toward a Loss of Language”  Huffington Post, Oct 2nd

2013 “Thoughts in Exile: Beyond Berlusconi’s Sex Trial”  Huffington Post, August 6th

2013 “Minister Kyenge and “Good’ Colonialism”  Warscapes, July 31st

2013 “Navigating Italian Shame”  Huffington Post, July 21st

2013 “The Story of Wikileaks?”  Warscapes, June 30th

2013 “Shipwrecked in Whole Foods”  Warscapes, June 1st

2012 “On Ignorance and Prankumentary: Adrift in the Central African Republic”  Warscapes, October 15th

2012 “Filming the Green Wave: a Delicate Space of Brutality”  Warscapes, October 3rd

2012 “Compromising Iranian Cinema”  Warscapes, May 29th

2011 In Danger, San Francisco: City Lights Books Translator of literary essays by Pier Paolo Pasolini

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Frank Robinson

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Who his Frank Robinson? He is the son of Frank Robinson and Ruth Jackson, the brother of Janice and Jack, the father of Teresa, and the grandfather of Kendra and Ethan. He has graduated several times, including a B.A. in history, a M.S. in journalism, and a Ph.D. in Inter-Disciplinary Studies (history, education, English, and women’s studies) from Ohio University. He has taught high school history and been a basketball coach. He completed the Boston Marathon, kayaked Lake Superior’s Isle Royale National Park, and rafted the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. He bikes and swims regularly; one of his all-time favorite bike rides was the Ride the Rockies Bike Tour in Colorado. He is an amateur landscape photographer. As much as he as been blessed with life since 1965 as an administrator or professor, he thinks he could have been happy as a 3rd grade teacher, constitutional judge, newspaper columnist, geologist, or operating a backcountry guide service in the Big Horn Mountains of Wyoming. He once played most sports (except skiing which he failed) and especially enjoy the basketball season (high school, college, and Boston Celtics). He likes mountains more than beaches, books more than movies, and interesting class discussions more than lectures. He likes preparing for class. He likes teaching because he likes learning. He learns before class when he prepares and he learns during class from his students’ feedback, comments, and questions.

Favorite Quote

“Certain questions which grown-ups deem unanswerable begin as answers which children find unquestionable.”

—Walter Kirn, Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overachiever (2009)

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Esther Rosbrook

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Dr. Esther Siagian-Rosbrook (Dr. E) is a strategic leader, educator, and consultant specializing in MBA education, organizational leadership, and strategic change management. With a doctorate in Organizational Leadership, a master’s in Psychology, a master’s in Adult Learning, and a business degree from the University of Indonesia, she blends business acumen with human-centered approaches to drive impactful transformation.

Affiliations

American College Professional Association

National Association of Student Personnel Administrators

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