Alumni Advisory Board

The Psychology and Child Development Department's Advisory Board consists of thirteen alumni who meet twice a year to coordinate the annual career symposium and provide feedback on curriculum and departmental programs. Here is a list of advisory board members and their email addresses.

Life After Cal Poly: A Sampling of CD & PSY Graduates

• Michelle Benoit ('93) is vice-president of Performance Renovator, Inc., a training and human resources consulting company.
  
  
• Kristi Bettner ('93) is an information systems analyst and consultant.
  
  
• Yvonne Duran ('95) is a social worker for a teen academic parenting program.
  
  
• Julianna Ekedal ('96) is pursuing an MS in Counseling at Cal State Northridge.
  
  
• Allison Evans ('97) received an M.A. in Psychology at Cal State Bakersfield in 1999 and currently teaches social psychology, abnormal psychology, intergroup processing skills, psychology as a profession, and group dynamics in the psychology program as CSUB.
  
  
• Julie Flathman ('95) obtained an MA in Education, ran school drug education programs, and is now a high school counselor.
  
  
• Denise Gonzales ('95) is in a doctoral program in psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology.
  
  
• Brian Nosek ('95) is completing a PhD in social psychology at Yale.
  
  
• Lisa Carlstrom ('96) is completing a PhD in psychology and measurement at UCLA.
  
  
• Kimberly Weich ('96) is program supervisor for the Youth Media Network and is a public health activist.
  
  
• Sean McGowan ('97) is a graduate student in the education program at Bowling Green University.
  
  
• Amy Schulz ('94) received a Masters in Counseling and is director of an employment counseling center for at-risk teens.
  
  
• Leonard Sims ('95) is completing a PhD in counseling at the University of Iowa.
  
  
• Sue Tarter ('96) is a full-time faculty member at a community college.
  
  
• Grace Van Doren ('94) is an RN and is completing a Masters degree in public health/community nursing.
  
  
• Carla Jean Saxton Temenak ('90) is a bilingual teacher for the first and second grades.
  
  
• Lisa Wilcox ('90) completed her MSW in May of ''96.
  
  
• Leslie Bagger ('93) is an elementary school counselor.
  
  
• Lisa Huet ('98) is in a Masters of Social Work program at UC Berkeley.
  
  
• Gene Courter ('97) completed a Masters in counseling and is currently working on a Masters in social work at Cal State Fresno.
  
  
• Jeanne Dorland ('96) is completing a PhD in counseling at the University of Akron.
  
  
• Wes Graham ('97) is in a PsyD program at the California Institute for Integral Studies.
  
  
• Janet Decatur ('97) works as a counselor for a youth treatment program.
  
  
• Carey Moyles ('98) works for IBM training corporate clients how to use new IBM systems.
  
  
• Sarah Fancher ('98), currently a veterinarian tech, will start a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program at UC Davis in fall 1999.
  
  
• Kathleen O'Neil ('94) is Program Coordinator at the Columbia Institute for Child and Family Policy.
  
  
• David Kusters ('99) is a software engineer at CAD Research Center.
  
  
• Craig Metcalf ('99) began a doctoral program in counseling psychology at Southern Illinois University in fall 1999.
  
  
• Robert Hollaway ('99) is a research assistant at UCLA.
  
  
• Lauren McEachen ('99) is an educator with the UCLA Lactation Educator Program.
  
  
• Nicolas Zerwas ('99) began a Masters in Divinity at Princeton University.
  
  
• Brianna Clark ('99) works as an outdoor leadership coordinator for Napa Valley's Student Enrichment Program.
  
  
• Megan Braziel ('99) began a Masters in Gerontology at USC.
  
  
• Natalie Confer ('99) is a sales rep at C.H. Robinson Company.
  
  
• Heather Segal ('99) is a residential youth counselor in San Luis Obispo.
  
  

Alumni Donations

Every donation to the Psychology & Child Development Department, no matter how small, is appreciated and put to good use. Donations help us to purchase items for which there are no other sources of funding.

We have used alumni donations to purchase videos for classroom use, videocameras, to pay for our career symposium, to fund our undergraduate research symposium, to buy items needed for our preschool lab, and for our department's small graduation ceremony.

Two new uses of alumni money are: (1) hardware and software for the new child development computer lab (used to train future teachers in educational technology) and (2) student research and travel grants.

Donations may be made to:

Psychology & Child Development Department
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407

When you make a donation, feel free to designate what you would like it to be used for.