English Council of California Two-Year Colleges

Andrew Lam, who was born in Vietnam and came to the US in 1975 when he was 11 years old, has a Master in Fine Arts from San Francisco State University in creative writing, and a BA degree in biochemistry from UC Berkeley. He currently resides in San Francisco, where he was the associate editor for the Pacific News Service, a regular commentator for National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” and current editor at New American Media. His real love, however, is writing fiction. His articles have appeared in Nation, Mother Jones, and the Washington Post—as well as many anthologies—and his work has been acknowledged by many prestigious organizations. …

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WHEREAS, Budget cuts to the California Community Colleges have the potential to compromise the system’s ability to meet the educational mission, deny state residents access to education, and/or adversely affect students enrolled in the Community College system; and …

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Oakland-based Filipino-American writer/performer, cultural worker, educator Suzara has been writing and performing spoken word, poetry and theatre incorporating movement since 1999. Her first play, Pagbabalik (Return), was awarded a Zellerbach Community Arts Grant in 2006 and 2007 and selected for Bay Area festivals, and she is working on her second, A History of the Body, also supported by Zellerbach and in residence last Fall with Kularts, Inc. …

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Katie Hern, writer, community college educator, and director of the California Acceleration Project will give the keynote address at this October’s ECCTYC Conference in Burlingame. Hern, Ed.D., an English Instructor at Chabot College, has been teaching students to read, write, and think critically for 20 years. She heads up the California Acceleration Project, a 3CSN initiative that supports faculty from the state’s 112 community colleges to redesign their developmental English and Math curricula.

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Jeannie Barroga was born in Milwaukee in 1949. She graduated with a B.A. in fine arts from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 1972. After graduation, she moved to northern California and felt a connection with this place that hosts rich and diverse cultures and people from different backgrounds. Since then, the San Francisco Bay Area has been home for Barroga and a prominent stage for her career as a playwright. An active Member of the Dramatists Guild, she’s a nationally-produced playwright, teacher, director, and local video producer. Recently, for development on Buffalo’ed, Ms. Barroga was awarded the Wallace Alexander Gerbode/William and Flora Hewlett Foundation grant. “A dramatization of the presence of the Buffalo Soldiers in the Philippines in 1899, Buffalo’ed raises questions of national loyalty to the American policy of Manifest Destiny. Formed during the Civil War, the Buffalo Soldiers were renowned for their bravery and were “invited” to participate in more wars for “freedom,” including the war in the Philippines. Faced with conflicts of loyalty and dignity, a number of these soldiers defected to the Philippine cause.

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