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Kelly Bowen

Biography

Kelly A. Bowen is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Core Division. Before Champlain College, Kelly worked in global trade assisting companies to identify opportunities and expand in emerging markets. As an International Trade Director for The Massachusetts Port Authority, she also led delegations of American manufacturers on Gubernatorial Trade Missions. Kelly managed offices in Jerusalem, Berlin, Derry, and Warsaw.

Time abroad fostered a love of the arts. Switching to the right brain, Kelly left business to pursue creative writing. She earned an M.F.A. at Goddard College.

Kelly champions experiential learning within an interdisciplinary framework. Her passion is empowering students (or clients) to uncover personal strengths and recognize their potential:

“Only after examining the self can we place ourselves in the context of a wider world. Critical thinkers evolve through this self-examination and encouragement.”

A Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, her work has been featured in Creative Nonfiction Magazine, The Huffington Post, Healthy Women, The Fiction Advocate, Vermont Digger, USA Today, and others. Her recent poem Dress Code was published in the Military Review Poetry Reader: Global War on Terrorism, 2001-2021 Anthology. Her essay Mystic Trinities received a notable mention in the 2022 edition of Best American Essays.

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John Boyd

Biography

Boyd started teaching at Champlain College in the fall of 2012. He teaches multiple topics within the Game Design curriculum including game design, system design, and level design.

As a game designer, he helped develop eight titles on a variety of development platforms including PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. Notable titles include: Rage (Xbox 360, PS3, PC), Ghostbusters: The Video Game (Xbox 360, PS3), Kinect Star Wars (Xbox 360), Medal of Honor: Airborne (Xbox 360), Luxor3 (PC), and Sin Episodes: Emergence (PC).

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Dean Boyer

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David Boyle

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Born in Philadelphia (Go Eagles!) and raised in Vermont. Joined the Vermont Army National Guard at 18 and which became a career. Deployed twice in support of the Global War on Terrorism with one in Kuwait and one in Afghanistan. Retired from the military after more that 26 years in service (23 of them on Active Duty). Currently assigned as a clinician at the college’s counseling center.

Holds two Masters Degrees, one in Administration and one in Clinical Psychology, both from St. Michael’s College. Worked in the mental health field for over 13 years. First clinical experience in the field was working in a Combat Stress Control Clinic in Afghanistan treating service members with mental health issues. Other relevant clinical experience is in both community mental health (in crisis and drug addiction issues) and in private practice.

Distinctions & Awards

Bronze Star Medal
Army Meritorious Service Medal 2nd Award
Army Commendation Medal 5th Award
Army Achievement Medal 4th Award

Recommended Reading, Listening & Viewing

• The Guns of August, Barbara Tuchman
• The Gettysburg Address

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Cyndi Brandenburg

Biography

Dr. Brandenburg is a trained neuroscientist who began teaching traditional lab science courses at Champlain College in 1999. With the initiation of Champlain’s Interdisciplinary Core in 2007, she shifted roles and started teaching an array of integrated and inquiry-based courses that are arguably quite different from her more traditional academic roots. As a result, she became particularly interested in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in general, and Interdisciplinarity and Integration in particular, with an eye towards fusing such seemingly disparate fields as the Sciences and the Humanities. She is a strong advocate for the importance of scientific literacy to society, and believes that the phrase “scientific literacy” needs to be understood in far more culturally nuanced and contextually meaningful ways than it typically has been in the past. Her current career focus includes how to make science skills more applicable and accessible to a broad range of students through hands-on, interdisciplinary, and inclusive pedagogies and curricular innovation. Most recently, she helped co-design a new degree program offered by the Degree Design Lab that is interdisciplinary, customizable, and predicated on experiential and project-based learning, and she is currently collaborating on the development of more innovative science-focused degree options for Champlain.

Distinctions & Awards

Edward Phelps Lyman Professorship Award

Publications & Abstracts

• Integration as the New (General Education)
• Scientific Literacy Redefined

Curriculum Vitae

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Kevin Braun

Biography

Kevin Braun is a UX design leader, speaker, educator, and author with 30 years of industry experience. The work he has done has helped improve user experiences for world-class companies including Google, Samsung, Rolex, Hyundai, Michael Kors, MIT, Harvard, Cisco Systems, and PADI. He has also worked with industry leaders in healthcare, insurance, automotive, mobile devices, and consumer goods.

Publications & Abstracts

From Chaos to Concept: A Team Oriented Approach to Designing World Class Products and Experiences

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Nathan Braun

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Mallory Breiner

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Mallory Breiner makes painting, sculpture and installation that collage visual language from art history, film, found internet images and personal photographs to investigate ideas about gender, motherhood, labor, emotions and art-making. She received her MFA from Hunter College (New York, NY) in combined media in 2014 and her BA in Fine Arts and English Literature from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont in 2007. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Art at Champlain College and Saint Michael’s College in Burlington, Vermont.

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Kristian Brevik

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Kristian Brevik is an artist, scientist, and educator, who works to bring together artistic practice, ecology+evolutionary science, and the environmental humanities into collaborative research and art exploring the ways the lives of humans and other beings are entangled. They research relationships between humans and insects using genetics and computational biology, teach science, art and the humanities in academic and community classes, write on the theory and practice of building kinship with other species, and create artwork in the form of large interactive installations, collaborative performance, and short zines on relationships between humans and others in the community of life. They seek to find ways that art and life can help to foster a sense of deep connectedness with the nonhuman kin with whom we share the world. Their large, participatory art installations are rooted in the places and ecologies they represent.

Publications & Abstracts

PUBLICATIONS & ABSTRACTS

Recommended Reading, Listening & Viewing

• BCA Artist Studio Tour: Kristian Brevik
• @kbrevil_whalefall on Instagram

Favorite Quote

Malheur Maar: A hole in black ground. Steep cliff walls round. A ring of tall green reeds under the walls around the water. Some small people sit here and there silently on the cliffs among rabbitbrush and sagebrush. Some small people silently climb up my pants leg. In the round water are the reeds and the walls and some of the people and the wind moving and the silence.

—Ursula K. LeGuin

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Lauren Broderick

Biography

Lauren brings over ten years of experience in undergraduate college admissions and college access work to Champlain. A NH native, she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Child Development and Education from Colby-Sawyer College, and her Master’s degree in Higher Education Administration from Southern New Hampshire University.

A natural connector at heart, Lauren enjoys meeting students and families exactly where they are in the college journey. Whether she’s visiting high schools across her territories or connecting with school and college counselors, she’s all about sharing what makes Champlain’s community special. She’s particularly passionate about working with first-generation college students, understanding the unique challenges and excitement that come with being the first in the family to pursue higher education. Lauren’s student-centered approach is simple: every prospective student and their support network deserve personalized direction as they navigate the college search process.

Territories:

Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts (Essex), Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota 

Hobbies

Outside of work, you can find Lauren supporting her favorite musicians at venues around New England and beyond, traveling to new places, discovering the best gluten-free restaurants, and spending time by the water.

Favorite Local Eateries and Things to do in Vermont

I absolutely love the energy of Church Street with its incredible mix of restaurants, shops, and entertainment. Whenever I’m in town, you’ll definitely find me making a stop at Lake Champlain Chocolates, too!

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Christina Brooker

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Christina joined Champlain College in 2017, and currently serves as the Director of the Conference & Event Center. In this role she leads a team with two primary areas of focus: supporting internal campus events and facilities, and welcoming the numerous guests that the Conference & Event Center is pleased to host on campus. Christina believes in building authentic and lasting relationships with the many repeat customers she works with through personable and efficient communication, an intimate knowledge of the campus she serves, and a solid dose of humor along the way.

Previously, Christina worked in the non-profit arts sector for 10 years including many years engaging with classical musicians in orchestra management. In various roles her work involved fundraising, community-building, and special events. She holds a B.S. in Music Industry with minors in both Business and Women’s Studies from The College of Saint Rose, and an M.B.A. from Champlain College.

A native Vermonter, Christina currently lives on a local farm where she spends her time caring for and being entertained by 200+ pigs and nearly 100 sheep. Her hobbies outside of the barn include knitting, hiking, solo travel exploration, and creating the perfect picnic.

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Beth Brouard

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Meghan Broughton

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Meghan graduated from Champlain in 2017 with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice. Her love of organizing and tending to fine details lends well to managing curriculum and on-campus classroom assignments. If you’re lucky, you will find Meghan spending her free time reading her way through a Sisyphean TBR. If you’re unlucky, she will be explaining, in extreme detail, the cultural impact of “Twilight.”

Hobbies

Reading, crafting, decorating cakes, and singing.

Tell us about your favorite local eateries

The perfect Vermont Saturday is going to the Farmers Market, grabbing lunch from Green Mountain PotStickers, sipping on a maple cold brew latte from Roll Away Cafe, and perusing the Vintage Market next door.

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Melanie Brown

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Dr. Melanie Brown is an Associate Professor of Mathematics and has been teaching at Champlain College since 2013. She is also the Program Director for Mathematics and oversees not only the major in Applied Mathematics and the minor in Mathematics, but also the collection of math courses that meet the needs of each of Champlain’s majors. Originally from Atlanta, GA, she graduated from Converse University with both a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and a Bachelor of Music in Music Education. She then pursued graduate studies in mathematics, earning a Master of Arts in Mathematics from Western Michigan University and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Vermont.

While her earliest research interests were in topological graph theory and combinatorial design theory, teaching at Champlain has given her the opportunity to explore applications of mathematics across a variety of disciplines. She is now especially interested in the mathematics of cybersecurity and regularly teaches a course in the mathematics of Cryptography. She also teaches more traditional math courses like Calculus I, Calculus II, and Linear Algebra, but she enjoys infusing each course with examples that demonstrate how the theoretical ideas help solve problems in “the real world.”

In addition to her teaching and administrative roles, Dr. Brown serves her faculty colleagues as the Chair of the Faculty Senate Welfare Committee. She is also a champion for gender diversity in STEAM and advises Champlain’s Womxn in Technology Club and Champlain’s Women in Cybersecurity Student Chapter. Additionally, she is a facilitator with the Champ 101 program.

In her free time, Dr. Brown is an active musician and plays clarinet with several Burlington-area ensembles.

Professional & Scholastic Affiliations

• Mathematical Association of America
• Women in Cybersecurity

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Eric Brown

Biography

Eric Brown has been an online Adjunct Instructor at Champlain College for over 10 years. He is committed to providing students with the precise skills and knowledge required to excel in a professional IT environment.

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