Satori 2002 Staff

Here is a partial list of staff that worked at Satori Camp during the summer of 2002. For more detailed bios, please click on the name you're interested in.

Directors:

  • Mike Cantlon - Satori Camp Co-founder and Co-director. Mike is a teacher for Spokane School District 81's gifted education program. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Education Department at Eastern Washington University.
  • Dr. Bruce Mitchell - Satori Camp Co-founder and Co-director. Dr. Mitchell is a retired professor for Eastern Washington University's Department of Education. He is a noted researcher and author in areas of creativity, gifted education and multicultural education.
  • Sara Maleki - Satori Camp Assistant Director. Sara has been with the camp for nine of its nineteen years: first as a camper, then as a counselor, and now as Assistant Director. She is a graduate of EWU and holds a B.A. in Business MIS.

Counsellors

  • Satori Camp counsellors are predominantly certified teachers and students currently in an education program. We also have several former campers who have worked their way into camp counsellor positions through our Counsellor-in-Training (CIT) program.

Instructors

  • Satori class instructors come from backgrounds as diverse as the classes they teach. Most are area professionals and experts in their field, as well as Junior and Senior High School teachers and Eastern Washington University professors.

Featured instructors include:

  • Tyler Burnet - Professional dance teacher and drama instructor at WWU; performs with the Dead Parrots Society group.
  • Bryan Bogue - Divides his time as a member of the percussion section for the Spokane Symphony, Moko Jumbie, and his newly formed quartet, for/4.
  • Nathan Collins - Graduate student in Physics at MIT.
  • Tammy Hovren - Teacher in the East Valley School District.
  • John Hagney - Teacher in Spokane School District 81; adjunct faculty at SFCC and EWU; 1997 Presidential Scholar Distinguished Teacher.
  • Dr. Sidney Kasuga - Professor of Biology at Eastern Washington University; noted researcher in the field of Immunology.
  • Jeff Kent - Teacher for Spokane School District 81; currently serving on the Spokane Arts Commission.
  • Heather McKeen- Professor at Eastern Washington University.
  • Chris Mathieson - Currently working on a post-bachelaureate diploma in Cognitive Science at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada; Chief Editor of the Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science.
  • Bruce McDavis - 6th Degree black belt in Goju-ryu Karate; has been teaching karate since 1975 throughout the Inland Northwest.
  • Paul Raymond - Principal Percussion with the Spokane Symphony Orchestra; plays in the Caribbean group Moko Jumbie, and the Brazilian jazz group Desafindo.
  • Lynnae Sowers - Current graduate student at EWU; 5 yrs field experience in archaeological excavation; many conference presentations on archaeological ethnobotony research throughout the nation.
  • Brannon Zahand - Software test engineer at Microsoft; holds both MOUS and MCSE certifications.
  • James Zahand - 31-year business career, he has held research, product development, sales, and management positions in two Fortune 500 companies.
 

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