Meet Our Staff
![Melissa Bakeman](/sites/default/files/upload/image/melissa_bakeman.jpg)
Years teaching: I have taught at CSUSB for over two decades.
Future career plans: Never grow up, but be responsible in the process.
Fun fact: I have over two dozen animals—including twenty chickens and an indoor pig named Churchill.
Favorite book/movie: Raymond Chandler's Farewell My Lovely/My Butterfly or the Shawshank Redemption
![Alejandra Marquez](/sites/default/files/upload/image/Alejandra_Marquez.jpg)
M.A. English Composition, Literature concentration c/o 2020
Future career plans: Teach at the university level (get a Ph.D., currently working on it) :)
Fun fact: I have nearly 300 books and have read about 2/3 of them!
A favorite book: This Bridge Called My Back Ed. Cherríe Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa
![Medium length curly brown hair, glasses, black shirt](/sites/default/files/upload/image/Alyse.jpg)
Major: English, MA, with concentrations in Literature and Pedagogy
Future career plans: I plan to teach English and Literature at the community college level, while continuing to explore different areas of study that I’m interested in.
Fun fact: I have been a dance teacher for the past 7 years, specifically in ballet, tap, and jazz.
Favorite TV show/book: My favorite TV show always changes, but recently I was obsessed with Beef on Netflix. And I don’t know if I have a current favorite book but I am currently reading Abroad in Japan: Ten Years in the Land of the Rising Sun by YouTuber and Podcast host Chris Broad.
Major: Administration with a concentration in Human Resource Management
Future career plans: To work in the tech industry as a project/program manager in the HR space. I’m also considering starting an MBA program soon.
Fun Fact: I’m a huge PC tech nerd, I could talk to you about each computer component and the best configurations all day.
Favorite TV show/movie: My favorite show as of now has got to be Succession. I love how natural the actors are able to perform in their roles, and it truly feels like watching a real, messy family as they fight over who succeeds their father’s company. My favorite movie is Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse because of how revolutionary it was.
![Long dark brown curly hair, blue blouse, brown eyes](/sites/default/files/upload/image/IMG_2091_Original.jpg)
Major: M.S. Information Systems and Technology
Future career plans: To be a cool techie
Fun fact: I have two dogs and they don't like each other.
Favorite TV show/movie: YJHD (movie); Money Heist, and You (TV Show)
Tutor Alumni
Congratulations to our past tutors who have graduated!
![Long dark brown hair, black blouse](/sites/default/files/upload/image/serina.png)
M.A. English and Writing Studies, Literature and Applied Linguistics Concentration
![Jacinta Mercado-Knowles](/sites/default/files/upload/image/jacinta-small%20scale.jpg)
![Randy Lucio](/sites/default/files/upload/image/randy_tutor.jpg)
M.A. English Composition, concentration in Applied Linguistics
B.A. Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting
![Marisol Rivera](/sites/default/files/upload/image/Tutor%20portraits_marisol.jpg)
M.A. English Composition
![Erin Metz](/sites/default/files/upload/image/Erin.jpg)
B.A. English, concentration in Creative Writing
![Lauren Cook](/sites/default/files/upload/image/Tutor_portraits_lauren.jpg)
B.A. Communications
![Alberto Velasco, Jr](/sites/default/files/upload/image/Velasco_Alberto.jpg)
B.A. Administration, Entrepreneurship Concentration
![Chloe Watts](/sites/default/files/upload/image/Tutor%20portraits_chloe.jpg)
B.A. Liberal Studies
![Breanna Hinckley](/sites/default/files/upload/image/Tutor%20portraits%20breanna.jpg)
B.A. Business Administration
Concentrations: Management and Marketing
![Bryan White](/sites/default/files/upload/image/Tutor%20portraits%20bryan.jpg)
B.A. Business Administration
Concentration: Marketing