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Academy Students Say...
What is the best surprise about the Academy?
The staff... They make me feel at home!
Willamette Academy
Executive Building
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem, Oregon 97301
503-370-6103 voice
503-370-3001 fax
Administrative Staff
Roberto Casarez
William Bragg
Joshua Bilbrew
Chris Hafner
Clarivel Moore-Zaa
Monica Becerril UgaldeInstructional Staff
Rebecca Moore CLA ’07; MAT ’08Academic Mentors
Jane Albertson ’10"Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."--Henry David Thoreau
Major: Math
Minor: Japanese
jalberts@willamette.edu
Margarita Gutierrez ’12
Ryan Sasaki ’10Only you can prevent forest fires!
Major: Mathematics
Minor: Rhetoric and Media Studies
rsasaki@willamette.edu
Tutoring Staff
Cliff Leek ’09"Expand the focus of analysis from merely describing the similarities and differences distinguishing systems of oppression and focus greater attention on how they interconnect. Assume that each system needs the others in order to function and create a distinct theoretical stance that stimulates the rethinking of basic social concepts." - Patricia Hill Collins
cleek@willamette.edu
Dominique Lomax ’10"Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love." from the realm of possibility by David Levithan
Major: Math
Minor: Chinese Studies
dlomax@willamette.edu
Tanor Morinaka ’13Do not pray for challenges equal to your strength, but, strength equal to your challenges.
Major: Undecided
tmorinak@willamette.edu
May OharaLet us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ~Mother Teresa
mohara@willamette.edu
Ismael Perez ’10
Michelle Plapp ’12"Part of where I'm going is knowing where I'm coming from"-Gavin DeGraw
Major: Economics
Minor: Sociology
mplapp@willamette.edu
Stacey Sunken ’10I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney
Major: Environmental Science
Minor: Biology
ssunken@willamette.edu
Volunteer Staff
Hilary Andrus ’10
Jared Green ’11Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask what makes you come fully alive and go do that because what the world needs are people who are fully alive." -Howard Thurman
Major: Physics
mgreen@willamette.edu
Lucille Kituku ’11"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure" - Marianne Williamson
Majors: Exercise Science & Pre-Medicine
lmulikit@willamette.edu
Stephanie Nixon Luz Rodriguez ’13"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it" -Edith Wharton
Majors: International Studies & Spanish
Minors: German & American Ethnic Studies
lmrodrig@willamette.edu
Cassandra Ross ’08 Debbie Southorn ’10"The most violent element in society is ignorance. Sing Loud so the world can't ignore anymore!" - Emma Goldman
Major: Music
Minor: American Ethnic Studies
dsouthor@willamette.edu
Ruth Ubaldo ’11Love cures people-both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it
Major: sociology
rubaldo@willamette.edu