adjunct faculty

Suzanne Stoddard lives in El Cerrito and loves to garden, read, and write. That is--when she's not gadding about. Travel is her foremost hobby. Recent trips have been to Portland and Ashland, Oregon, and to Wright's Lake (camping). She also enjoys any and all kinds of dancing. She writes poetry about her trips and is currently working on a screenplay about her cross-cultural romance. Suzanne's day job is at an IEP in Pleasant Hill (the International Education Center ) that feeds academically-oriented foreign students into DVC and other American community colleges and universities. She specializes in teaching Reading/Writing and Listening/Speaking to the most advanced group. At CCC, she teaches a beginning-level class. She is thrilled to be an ESL instructor at the college level after working in the corporate and nonprofit realms for many years and being a high school teacher. She has taught English in Kiev, Ukraine and in U.C. Berkeley's ELP program, as well as at the Fairfield and Albany Adult Schools.

	Karen Platt's formal education consists of a BA from Antioch College, as well as a Reading Specialist Credential and MA in TESL from San Francisco State University. After a few miscellaneous jobs, she worked as a middle school reading specialist for eight years until she decided sheÕd rather teach ESL (including reading) to adults. Since then she has taught ESL at various schools besides Contra Costa College, including Richmond Adult School and Laney College. She also lived in Spain where she taught English for one year and, consequently, gained a lot of respect, admiration, and empathy for her students and their experience of living in a new country and learning a new language. In her free time, Karen loves to travel and feels very fortunate that she has been able to visit many countries around the world. When not traveling, she enjoys experiencing the rich cultural and ethnic diversity of the movies, music, and food available in the Bay Area.
	Suzanne Stoddard lives in El Cerrito and loves to garden, read, and write. That is--when she's not gadding about. Travel is her foremost hobby. Recent trips have been to Portland and Ashland, Oregon, and to Wright's Lake (camping). She also enjoys any and all kinds of dancing. She writes poetry about her trips and is currently working on a screenplay about her cross-cultural romance. Suzanne's day job is at an IEP in Pleasant Hill (the International Education Center ) that feeds academically-oriented foreign students into DVC and other American community colleges and universities. She specializes in teaching Reading/Writing and Listening/Speaking to the most advanced group. At CCC, she teaches a beginning-level class. She is thrilled to be an ESL instructor at the college level after working in the corporate and nonprofit realms for many years and being a high school teacher. She has taught English in Kiev, Ukraine and in U.C. Berkeley's ELP program, as well as at the Fairfield and Albany Adult Schools.
	Isidora Martinez-McAfee is a native of Mexico. She arrived in California by way of Kansas City, Missouri. While in high school she was a teacher's aide in the first pilot program for Bilingual Education in the RUSD. Upon graduating from high school she attended UC Berkeley where she received her BA and Teaching Credential. She also studied at La Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in addition she took courses at El Museo Nacional de Antrepologia. She has visited many of the major archeological ruins in Mexico. Isidora has always been community oriented. While living in Richmond, she was a member of the United Council of Spanish Speaking Organization, writer and editor of El Comunero (a monthly bilingual publication) with United Concilio West, and a representative/member of the Community Development Commission for the city of Richmond. Her love of teaching English Learners has kept her at Richmond High School for 27 years and in the ESL Department at CCC for 22 years. Furthermore, Isidora volunteers countless hours to the Alma Latina Club and its Ballet Folklorico. For her there is nothing more rewarding than to see her students succeed in Education and Life.
	Kathi Jordan has been teaching at Contra Costa College since 1983, but she has been a teacher for 36 years. She retired from CCC in 2001, but still prefers to continue to teach a grammar class as an ESL consultant at CCC and to write reviews of ESL textbooks. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Spanish Literature from Holy Names College and her M.A. in English with a concentration in ESL from San Francisco State University. Kathi's main professional interest has always been ESL composition. She was the ESL department's writing coordinator for 18 years. In 1995, she was selected by the Communication/Arts Division Chair to represent Contra Costa College at the Great Teacher's Seminar in Santa Barbara, CA. In 1996, she was awarded a sabbatical leave to pursue further studies in Spanish and Mexican and Central American Art, History, and Culture. Throughout her teaching career, she has studied various languages and cultures including Italian, Arabic, Mandarin, and Japanese to better understand what it means to be a secor d language learner. Her special interests are reading, traveling, yoga, ballet, and attending numerous theater and ballet performances in the Bay Area. She is married and has one son, Adam, who will soon be married. Always an animal lover, she now has adopted a stray kitten named Patches. Kathi absolutely loves teaching ESL to students from all over the world and admires their courage and determination to learn English. She is particularly delighted to be able to continue to teach ESL at CCC as a semi-retired instructor. She values being able to maintain her connection with the dynamic teachers in the ESL Department at Contra Costa College.
	Nancy Millick - Nancy Millick received her B.A. in English Literature from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, an M.A.T. (Master of Arts in Teaching) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and an M.A. in Teaching English as a Second Language from San Francisco State University. She has taught Freshman English, and Reading and Humanities for Advanced ESL students at San Francisco State and Subject A for Non-Native Speakers of English at UC Berkeley. Before coming to Contra Costa in 1986, Nancy taught full-time for five years in the Intensive English Program as well as Advanced EFL Writing/Research classes at St. Mary's College in Moraga. Nancy also has had extensive ES/FL teaching experience in adult school and UC Extension in Berkeley and San Francisco. She has taught ESL classes at all levels at Contra Costa College. Nancy enjoys people, travelling, gardening, and jazz and classical music. She appreciates the variety and commitment of the students at CCC.
	Rosemary Loughman obtained her BA in German from the University of Detroit and her MA in Linguistics from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Between these two degrees she worked as a guide at the United Nations in New York City after which she spent three years in Munich, Germany, where she worked at the Olympic Games and taught English at a high school and at an adult school. She has also lived and taught English in France, Mexico and Spain. She has been an instructor at Contra Costa Community College since 1986 and also teaches ESL at U.C. Berkeley Extension. In addition to teaching, she also works for Educational Testing Service as a reader of standardized test essays. Rosemary has one son. She loves travelling and outdoor sports. She is grateful to all her students for teaching her all they have about their marvelous countries, languages and cultures. Being in close contact with students from all around the world makes her realize on a daily basis how much more we all have in common than anything which might separate us. She finds that contact stimulating and energizing and is always gratified to see a new world opening up for students when they start communicating in English.
	Doug Clark's interest in learning languages started in a Spanish class at the University of Redlands, where he received his B.A. degree in Communications in 1978. He worked in radio news during college and then did pension-plan administration for Transamerica Corporation in Los Angeles. Still, a love for Spanish made him go back to San Diego State University for a second B.A. degree, in Spanish, with a minor in Political Science. He combined his interest in Spanish with communications and worked in newspapers as an editor in New Mexico, west Texas and southern California before going to Japan to teach English. After returning from a year in Japan and getting a job as instructional aide at Contra Costa College in early 1997, he enrolled in the master's program for ESL teachers at San Francisco State University. After graduation, he worked at the Outreach College at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Hawaii Pacific University before returning to CCC. He enjoys fitness training, reading, baseball, hiking and camping.
	Lorna Swain -Lorna Swain received her BA in English from the University of California at Santa Cruz. She held a variety of exciting jobs and then returned to college to study interior design. Near the end of her 10-year career in corporate interior design and sales, she began providing English tutoring to refugees from the former republic of Yugoslavia. Realizing that she'd found her true calling, she once again returned to academia and earned her MA in Teaching English as a Second Language at San Francisco State University. Lorna has taught at several colleges and universities in the Bay Area. She has also written ESL Teachers' Guides and edited ESL workbooks. In addition to teaching at CCC, she teaches at the College of Alameda. Lorna spends most of her free time playing music. She grew up in her family's music store, so she plays a variety of instruments, but her favorites are accordion, recorders, and, most recently, guitar. She plays music from many parts of the world, and especially loves the music of Eastern Europe. She is presently in the process of rediscovering old-time American music and is having fun singing in English for a change!
	Shelly Ruby. Shelly's bio is coming soon.
	Lynda Nicol. Lynda's bio is coming soon.
	The adjunct faculty also includes: Lucia Colon, Judy Wong, Inocencia Daucumos, Helen Munch, Joanna Arhon, Bianca Vargas, David Gorman, and Daniel DeYoung.