Dr. Sarina Chugani Molina serves as Associate Professor of Education in the Department of Learning and Teaching at the University of San Diego. She has over 25 years experience working with marginalized and under-served communities of students including migrant, immigrant, refugee, language learners, and international students in multiple settings from international schools abroad to private schools, community colleges, community-based programs, and institutes of higher education in the United States. She has taught spiritual and human values education programs to children and parents in schools and communities in the San Diego area for 16 years. She is honored to be a mother of two children. She has authored several books on teacher education and is currently working on a book entitled, "The conscious educator: Rediscovering the purpose of education through the lens of wisdom traditions." She has also published numerous peer-reviewed articles in the area of teacher education utilizing constructive-developmental, socio-cultural, ecological and critical perspectives.
She has designed and developed online and onsite teacher education programs and provides seminars and training for teachers and students in China, India, Kenya, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and the United States. |
Dr. Shala Maria Deleppo Siew earned a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from New York University (NYU), holds a Master’s degree and Doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Denver, tended to patients at the Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP), and completed her residency requirements at the Boston Medical Center, the largest safety-net hospital and Level I trauma center in New England. Shala’s passion and academic training have been focused on multiculturalism, communities, family and children. Her experience includes, but is not limited to, working directly with and/or on committees for: severely abused, neglected and traumatized youth; families and children grieving the loss of a parent or loved one; hiring/selection; diversity/inclusion; fundraising; bilingual tutor for teen mothers in English/math; as well as being an active parent representative and liaison for teacher/school/community communications and events. Since 2017, Shala has been a member of the U.S. Academy for Human Excellence, participating, creating, and leading on-line presentations and workshops on human-values education, self-transformation, and mindfulness/awareness-based approaches and practices. Shala hails from Foxboro, MA and is the proud mother of a teenager and soon-to-be teenage twins in Denver, CO.
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Eloísa Robledo is a bilingual (English/Spanish) trainer with a UTEP degree in Psychology with over 35 years experience as a facilitator in Awareness, Personal, & Human Development Workshops, as well as experiential skills training seminars to help achieve personal, family and professional objectives. She has been a motivational speaker in U.S. and Mexico. She has extensive experience in promoting the improvement of underprivileged communities; developed and implemented training programs to support self sufficiency, encouraged education, and guided native leaders to become mentors in rural development. She was Charter President of the Guerrero Rotary Club, in Ciudad Guerrero, Chihuahua, Mexico, as well as founder, and CEO of the Board of Trustees of a not for profit organization established for the construction of the Rotary Clinic of Ambulatory Surgery and Educational Center in the above mentioned city. She served as an International speaker to promote international and community service projects and has been an active volunteer for many years. Eloísa is blessed to be the mother of four children and their spouses, is a happy grandmother of nine grandchildren and very much enjoys a rich and rewarding family life.
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