SOLES Spotlights
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SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Carli Danaher '18 (MEd), TESOL
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES for that program. I had originally planned on going to DePaul in Chicago to get my master's…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Katherine Lambert ’21 (MEd), Online MEd School Leadership Specialization
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES for that program. I had been thinking about pursuing my master’s since I left my unde…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Marisa Quiroz '08 (MA), Nonprofit Leadership and Management
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES for that program. I was living in Oakland, California, and working for Mills College. Worki…
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: Ivan Hauck '04 (MA), Counseling with an emphasis in College Counseling and Student Services
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose the School of Education (now SOLES) to pursue that program. I did my undergrad at UC Berkeley. I …
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: James Walker II '20 (MEd), TESOL
Tell us about the degree you chose to pursue and why you chose SOLES for that degree. I’ve always had a love of languages. I don't know why, bu…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Valerie Livesay '06 (MA), Nonprofit Leadership and Management; '13 (PhD), Leadership Studies
Tell us about your degree programs, and why you chose to attend SOLES for those programs. I entered the Master’s in Nonprofit Leadership and Ma…
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: Nathaniel Dunigan '14 (PhD), Leadership Studies
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES to pursue that degree. I have been living in Uganda, East Africa, for more than 21 years. T…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Carly Muir '18 (MEd), Special Education & Multiple Subject
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES for that program. I chose to get my Master's in Education – specifically special educ…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Samantha Wolf '17 (MA), Leadership Studies
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose to pursue that program at SOLES. I always knew that there were two paths I wanted to pursue. My t…
SOLES Graduate Spotlight: t. fox. '10 (MA), Nonprofit Leadership and Management
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES to pursue that program. I got my Master’s in Nonprofit Leadership and Management beca…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Kalie Sabajo '19 (MA), Higher Education Leadership
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose to attend SOLES for that program. I did the Master’s in Higher Education Leadership program…
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: Sergio Felipe Hernandez '20 (MA), Marital and Family Therapy
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose to pursue that program at SOLES. While I was studying to get my undergraduate degree in psycholog…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Maia Barber '19 (MA), School Counseling
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES to pursue that degree. I learned that I really wanted to be a school counselor the year aft…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Amanda Corona '18 (MA), Nonprofit Leadership and Management
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose to pursue that program at SOLES. I received my Master's in Nonprofit Leadership and Management. I…
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: Matthew Becerra '18 (MEd), Curriculum & Instruction
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES for that program. I always knew I was going to go to graduate school and I always knew that…
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: Harry Dixon '14 (MA), Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES for that program. I always knew I wanted to be in the helping field. I thought being a medi…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Andrea Trejo '19 (MA), Marital and Family Therapy
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES for that program. I had always kind of known that I wanted to pursue graduate school. I thi…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Geralyn Williams '17 (MA), Higher Education Leadership Studies
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES for that program. I received my Master’s in Higher Education Leadership Studies withi…
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: John Hinck '18 (PhD), Leadership Studies
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES to pursue that program. SOLES was the best choice to coming “home” for me! …
SOLES Alumnae Spotlight: Andrea Medina '18 (MA) and Molly Patrick '19 (MA), Leadership Studies
Tell us what degree programs you pursued and why you chose SOLES for that program. Andrea: I was really eager to deepen my understanding of leadersh…
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: Scott Merkel '15 (MA), School Counseling
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES. My path was maybe a little different than others. I was working as a consultant in the Was…
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: Dominic Rios '18 (MEd), Online MEd School Leadership Specialization
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES. I always knew that I wanted to be involved in education. After earning my undergraduate de…
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: Gary Ransom '18 (MA), Leadership Studies
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES. I’m from Ohio and I was getting recruited to play football at USD. I was looking at …
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Fabiola Bagula '07 (MEd), Educational Leadership, '16 (PhD), Leadership Studies
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES. I started my journey at USD through the Educational Leadership Development Academy (ELDA) …
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Marie Webb '13 (MEd), TESOL
Tell us about your SOLES degree program and why you chose it. I studied in the MEd in TESOL, Literacy, and Culture program because I knew that I woul…
SOLES Alumnus Spotlight: Michael Angelo Camacho '16 (MA), Nonprofit Leadership and Management
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES. I come from a poor farming village in the Philippines where 40% of its population experien…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Kameka Smith '11 (MA), Clinical Mental Health Counseling
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES. I had gotten my bachelor’s degree in psychology from SDSU. After I graduated, I took…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Tameah Chandler '11 (MEd), Special Education
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES. My undergraduate degree is in psychology from Fisk University. After undergrad, I was prep…
SOLES Graduate Spotlight: Ben Mendoza '15 (MA), Higher Education Leadership Studies
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES. I was working at a community college in Seattle, where I was working with administrators a…
SOLES Alumna Spotlight: Jamie Inarda '19 (MA), Leadership Studies
Tell us about your degree program and why you chose SOLES. After I completed my undergraduate degree in 2009, I served two terms in AmeriCorps NCCC. …