HECUA
PROGRAM STAFF
Dr. Phillip Sandro, MUST Program Director
and faculty, has taught experiential urban studies
programs for over 15 years. He also provides faculty
development workshops through HECUA. Sandro
has an impressive record of involvement in urban public
policy including a policy making position for the
City of Chicago under reform mayor Harold Washington.
He has also served on numerous boards of community
development corporations and has been active in educational
reform issues. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from
the New School for Social Research with emphasis on
urban and regional economics, political economy and
economic history. Besides teaching, Sandro is
currently doing research in conjunction with the Carnegie
Foundation for Teaching and Learning’s “Political
Engagement Program.”
Sara Carpenter,
MUST Program Associate, is pursuing a Master of Arts
degree
in Education in the Work, Community, Family Education
program at the University
of Minnesota. An alumna of HECUA's CASLA Guatemala/Cuba
progra, Sara has
been involved in a number of areas of HECUA's work
including professional
education and new program development. Sara co-designed
and co-taught the
pilot Civil Rights January Term program in 2003 and
joined the MUST teaching
staff in the fall of 2003. Sara also works with a
variety of Twin Cities
non-profits on community-based education projects.
Dr. William
Reichard, City Arts Program Director, holds an
MA in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Contemporary
American Poetry from the University of Minnesota.
A long time member of the Twin Cities arts community,
Reichard has worked with artists from a wide variety
of disciplines creating collaborative projects that
push the boundaries of individual genres. He is the
author of three collections of poetry: An Alchemy
in the Bones (1999), To Be Quietly Spoken (2001),
and How To (2004), and the editor of The Evening Crowd
at Kirmser’s: A Gay Life in the 1940’s
(2001).
Christa Olson,
City Arts Assistant Instructor, received her MA in
Performance Studies from New York University’s
Tisch School of the Arts and her interdisciplinary
B.A., Finding Voice: Creative Expression as a Tool
for Social Justice, from St. Olaf’s Paracollege.
She has worked with arts organizations in the Twin
Cities and New York City and continues to be actively
involved in the performing arts through her role as
Production Manager at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis.
Julia Frost
Nerbonne, Environmental Sustainability Program
Director, (B.A. Vassar College; M.S., and Ph.D. in
Conservation Biology, University of Minnesota, Twin
Cities) Julia has taught numerous courses in both
natural and social science focusing on aquatic ecology,
conflict management of natural resources, and environmental
ethics. She has extensive experience in community
education, field research, and community organizing.
When she is not at HECUA she is conducting research
on the role of scientific knowledge on citizen empowerment,
teaching in the department of Fisheries, Wildlife
and Conservation Biology at the University of Minnesota,
and serving on the board of directors of the Dispute
Resolution Center in St. Paul.
Martha Moscoso
Carvallo, Ecuador Program Director, is a sociologist
and historian, with advanced degrees in Sociology
of Development and in Andean History. She is a professor
on the Human Sciences faculty at Quito’s Catholic
University and has extensive teaching and research
in women’s and gender history and in indigenous
communities.
Professor Haroun Er
Rashid, Bangladesh Program Director, is Director
of the School of Environmental Science and Management
at Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB).
For several years he has had major responsibility
for IUB's "Live-in-Field Experience", which
sends urban-based students into the rural villages
and urban settlements to impress upon them the socio-economic
realities faced by the majority of Bangladeshis. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and author
of the definitive geographical text on Bangladesh,
Rashid has graduate degrees in geography and development
economics and is the founder of a private voluntary
national development organization, Bangladesh POUSH,
whose primary objective is to enable small-holder
and landless families to generate more income for
themselves from environmentally sound projects and
programs.
Professor Talim Hossain,
Bangladesh Program Director, is a Senior Lecturer
in Anthropology in the School of Liberal Arts and
Science at the Independent University, Bangladesh.
Professor Hossain’s Ph.D. dissertation at the
University of Berne, Switzerland, was titled, ‘Potentials
of Increasing Crop Production and Agricultural Development
in Bangladesh: An Anthropological Study.’
His research in rural Bangladesh is extensive and
he has also studied landscape and flooding as well
as health centers in Bangladesh. He has worked
in anthropological research for both Canadian and
Swiss development agencies on development projects
in rural Bangladesh. He has also assisted several
international scholars in their research in rural
Bangladesh. Professor Hossain is originally
from a village in Gazipur district, north of Dhaka.
Roisin
(Raw-Sheen) McLaughlin, Northern Ireland Program
Director, holds a B.A. and a M.A. in Political Studies,
with a focus on international relations, conflict
intervention and human rights from Auckland University,
New Zealand. She is completing a doctorate at Queens
University in Belfast. McLaughlin worked at the One
World Center, an organization working to reform and
update curriculum and teacher training in Northern
Ireland. She has also consulted at the UNESCO Centre
and guest lectured in the HECUA program.
Timothy Szlachetko,
Program Director, Norway site, holds advanced degrees
in political science from the University of Melbourne
in Australia where he specialised in European integration
theory, European Union social policy and Scandinavian
welfare state policy. His latest research has
involved conducting a comparative analysis of Australian
and Scandinavian education and training systems, with
a focus on the transition from school to further education
and working life. Timothy has taught undergraduate
courses in European Union and Western European politics
at the University of Melbourne and has been Guest
Researcher at the University of Aarhus in Denmark,
the Danish Institute of Social Research in Copenhagen
and the University of Oslo. Timothy has also
held a number of senior social policy positions with
Government in Australia, most recently as senior adviser
to the Victorian Premier (State of Victoria, Australia)
on early childhood and education and training policy.
HECUA
ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP
Jenny
Keyser, Executive Director,
brings 28 years of teaching, program development,
and nonprofit leadership to HECUA. With a Ph.D. in
Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and a B.A. in English from Hanover College, she began
her career by teaching literature at colleges in Louisiana
and Minnesota, and subsequently left teaching to direct
programs and provided leadership to educational and
community-based nonprofit organizations, including
the Minnesota Literacy Council, Minnesota Humanities
Commission, and the Children, Youth & Family Consortium.
Phil Hatlie,
Director of Operations, has 25 years experience
in operations, finance and administration specializing
in start-up or small nonprofit and for-profit organizations
looking to grow and expand their organization. Phil
received his B.A. from Concordia College in Moorhead,
MN.
Jacquelyn Geier,
Director of Programs, has over 15 years of experience
in international higher education and developing creative
programs to address community needs. She has a M.A.
in Public Affairs focused on Education for Social
Change and Nonprofit Management from the University
of Minnesota, and a B.A. in Government from Harvard
University.
Judy Sharken Simon,
Alumni Relations and Special Projects Coordinator,
holds an M.A. in Organization Development from the
University of Minnesota. She has worked as an organization
consultant with nonprofit organizations for over fifteen
years focusing on life stages work, strategic planning,
and board development and has authored two books in
the field. Judy is also a HECUA alumna from the 1983
South American Urban Semester in Colombia.
Mary
Delorié, Marketing and Recruitment
Coordinator, joined the HECUA team in 2004 with a
BA in Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College. At
HECUA she heads up the marketing and communication
efforts and also works closely with Student Services
and the Program Outreach Assistants. Mary spent the
previous four years working with Cross-Cultural Solutions
in New York and made the move to Minnesota for HECUA.
Alysha
Boie, Program Outreach Assistant. Boie holds
a dual degree in Justice and Peace Studies and Communication
Studies from the University of St. Thomas. In 2001,
she was a student in HECUA's MUST program.
David Holliday, Program Outreach Assistant, graduated from Augustana College
(Sioux Falls, SD) in 2002 with a B.A. in Psychology and Religion. He has
spent nearly three years at HECUA working with recruitment and student
services.
