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Meet Our Staff

Melissa Bakeman
Melissa 'Mel' Bakeman, Faculty Director

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

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Sakshi Verma

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! 

Alejandra Marquez
Alejandra Marquez

2021-2024 Assistant to Director

C/O 2020 M.A. English Composition, Literature concentration 

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Alyse Kiara Deatherage

Major: English, MA, with concentrations in Literature and Pedagogy

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Reggie Abu, c/o 2023

Major: B.A. Business Administration

concentration: Human Resource Management

 

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Serina Item, c/o 2023

M.A. English and Writing Studies, Literature and Applied Linguistics Concentration

 

Jacinta Mercado-Knowles
Jacinta Mercado-Knowles, c/o 2022
George Romero, c/o 2022
Jaye Johnson, c/o 2021
Randy Lucio
Randy Lucio, c/o 2020

M.A. English Composition, concentration in Applied Linguistics

Courtney Watts c/o 2020

B.A. Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting

Marisol Rivera
Marisol Rivera, c/o 2019

M.A. English Composition

Erin Metz
Erin Metz, c/o 2019

B.A. English, concentration in Creative Writing

Lauren Cook
Lauren Cook, c/o 2019

 B.A. Communications

Alberto Velasco, Jr
Alberto Velasco, Jr. c/o 2019

B.A. Administration, Entrepreneurship Concentration

Chloe Watts
Chloe Watts, c/o 2018

B.A. Liberal Studies

Breanna Hinckley
Breanna Hinckley, c/o 2017

B.A. Business Administration
Concentrations: Management and Marketing

Bryan White
Bryan White, c/o 2017

B.A. Business Administration

Concentration: Marketing