Satori Staff (2004)

Here is a partial list of staff that will be working at Satori Camp during the summer of 2004. For more detailed bios, please click on the name you're interested in.

(* An asterix before a name denotes a Satori Camp Alumni)

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 eleven of its twenty-one 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.

Counselors

  • Satori Camp counselors 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.
  • *Marcus Collins - Graduate student in the Biophysics Group of the Physics Department at Cornell University.
  • *Nathan Collins - Graduate student in Physics at MIT; Editor of MIT’s student newspaper, The Tech.
  • Tammy Hovren - AP/Honors English teacher and Diversity Advisor in the East Valley School District. MA in Curriculum Development from Eastern Washington University.
  • 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; Specialist in immunopathology and hematopathology.
  • Jeff Kent - Teacher for Spokane School District 81; currently serving on the Spokane Arts Commission.
  • Jim Kershner - Humor columnist for the Spokesman Review. Received seven awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columns. Taught humor writing with the National Writing Project.
  • Heather McKean - Senior Associate Faculty in the Department of Biology, Eastern Washington University. MS in Biology/Genetics.
  • *Chris Mathieson - in Cognitive Science at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada; Founding 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.
  • John Shields - Instructional Technologist II in the Department of Biology, Eastern Washington University. MS in Biology/Ecology.
  • Lynnae Sowers - BA and MED from Eastern Washington University. Field experience in excavation. Research and numerous presentations involving anthropology and archaeology ethnobotany.
  • Mark Tietjen - Director of Orchestra and Assistant Director of Bands in the East Valley School District. BA in Music Education and MA in Percussion Performance from Eastern Washington University.
  • Sharon Wucherpfennig - Breakfast/Pastry Chef at the Stephanie Inn dining room in Cannon Beach, Oregon. Professional cake decorator for 8 years.
  • Bill Williams - Professor in the Department of Psychology at Eastern Washington University.
 

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