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@“Grand Budapest Dolls” in Pusan, Korea.

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Jeffrey Kim (he/him), Associate Teaching Professor, Computing and Software Systems @UWB

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Jeffrey Kim (he/him), Associate Teaching Professor, Computing and Software Systems @UWB

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1. I teach upper division computer science classes, focusing on software engineering and management science. I am a computer scientist by training with additional research experience in ethnography and social/organizational aspects of information systems. Since 2010, I have led the Korea summer seminar course (Information, Culture and Technology in Modern Korea, INFO497). My COIL project will reflect some of these themes I have been pursuing.

For the COIL project, I aim at designing project-driven modules that will help students to analyze the critical healthcare needs of people and identify the role of software applications that will bring positive impact to the local communities. I hope to establish a working partnership with colleagues at Indian universities.

2. I was born in Korea and moved to the United States after college. It has been quite an interesting and challenging journey. For a long time, I have not found myself situated in any geographic region or cultural context. From my personal journey and academic training, I came to see myself as a boundary spanner and a translator who speak the language of technology and social science. Through the COIL project, I hope to create a small-scale journey in which new world views will be open to the students.

3. Travel. I always find something extraordinary out of the ordinary life, here and around the world. This is an image captured in the city of Pusan a few years ago. I was standing in front of a little doll shop named “Grand Budapest Dolls”.

I am thrilled to be a part of this group!

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My kids and I on a chilly day at the park

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1. I teach at UW Bothell in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. I'm a geographer and learning about the Earth systems is what I'm interested in from both academic and non-academic points of view. I teach classes on geo-technologies such as GIS, remote sensing, global navigation satellite systems, and environmental geography. Therefore, my COIL course will also touch upon some of these topics. I'm planning a COIL project with a colleague from Ecuador, in which students will learn remote sensing using cloud based and open-source platforms, in combination with commonly used desktop packages.
2. I'm originally from Ecuador, but became a US citizen about 5 years ago. I lived in Germany for a year before coming to the US. I had the opportunity to live in various places in the US from the deserts of Arizona to the urbanscapes of Washington DC, with a long stop in the hill country of Texas, where my wife is from. We love the PNW for the many reasons already expressed on this board, but I do miss the sun! We have two kids (Fen 10 and Lenka 8 years old) and a hamster (Locro about 30 years old in human years).  I like to cycle, run, climb, hike, and swim (when it is not too cold). Greetings all! It is nice to be part of this group.

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Rubén Casas (his/him) Assistant Professor (SIAS) and Adjunct Assistant Professor (School of Urban Studies)-UWT

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Rubén Casas (his/him) Assistant Professor (SIAS) and Adjunct Assistant Professor (School of Urban Studies)-UWT

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I teach first-year writing and upper-division courses on/about rhetoric. In this experience, I wish to build on existing relationships I have with colleagues in Mexico City, particularly through a new course I am proposing, “Reading and Writing the City.” In my area of study, there’s renewed interest (generally) in recognizing that rhetoric is located and appears in locations outside of the West/the Western tradition, and more specifically, that to study it effectively and expansively, we should look beyond borders (of all kinds). I am looking to demonstrate this expansion in my teaching, and this new course will be be a first (and actual) foray into that: I want to co-develop an assignment with a colleague in Mexico City that asks students here and there to share of their city with each other.

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Ashley JoEtta (she/her), assistant professor, IAS and FYPP @ UWB

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Ashley JoEtta (she/her), assistant professor, IAS and FYPP @ UWB

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1. Currently, I'm teaching B-WRIT 134 (first-year composition).  For the COIL project, I intend to work with B WRIT 134 students, focusing on developing their academic writing skills from an anti-racist framework wherein we push against monolingual ideologies and we create room for students to see their home language(s) as valid languages for academic writing. I hope to collaborate with a former peer and colleague in Ghana.

2. I've a wanderlust heart, and I always have -- I think it came from reading. As a first-gen, I didn't get many (any?) opportunities to explore outside my immediate geographical location until I was an MA student. During my MA, I switched my focus from Lit to TESOL and took a year-long internship in Japan teaching and learning with 3 year olds and 70-year olds and all the ages in between. That was a formative experience for me. I've also studied and speak several languages (to varying degrees of proficiency): English, Spanish, Arabic, and Japanese (fun fact: I have a Spanish accent when I speak Japanese and if I forget a word in Arabic, I switch to Spanish). I want my students to have as many broadening experiences as they can; approaching language from an international lens (especially English) can validate and affirm (linguistic) identities and help students find their voice and/or give them the language needed to empower themselves.

3. My dog, Lemon, is my big shadow. She's always close, always watching, always down for an adventure. We're both a little obsessed with each other.

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I also just realized I have very few normal pictures of myself :)

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Anna Lovász (she/hers), Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UWT

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Anna Lovász (she/hers), Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, UWT

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1. I teach Economics classes, with special focus on gender inequalities in the labor market. I'm very interested in psychological differences and the impact of educational methods on different groups, as well as the impact of parenthood and family policies on aspirations and careers.  I'm planning a COIL project with my former Hungarian colleagues, where students will explore discrimination, and compare what this means, who it affects, and societal attitudes in the two countries.
2. I was born in Hungary, raised moving between the US and Hungary, got my PhD at UW Seattle, returned to teach in Budapest, and recently moved back to be near my husband's family in Puyallup. Going back-and-forth so much has made me very interested in the ways people differ and the ways they are similar in different countries and cultural settings. As others have written, it is so eye opening to see different places in the world! So, I'm very excited to be able to keep in touch with colleagues from Hungary, and to include an international collaboration experience for students in my course.
3. Having always lived in the city, I'm really enjoying exploring the incredible natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, and having a horse as our neighbor. We love to hike with our daughter and dog, and catch any rays of sun we can, as we were in this picture.
I'm really looking forward to getting to know all of you!

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Hi Everyone! I seem to have no normal pictures of myself :) 

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Deborah Hathaway (she/her/hers), Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences @ UWB

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Deborah Hathaway (she/her/hers), Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences @ UWB

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1.  I currently teach interdisciplinary performance arts courses and also introductory general learning strategies courses for first year and pre-major students. My intended COIL project is with a first year course that combines theatre and gender studies disciplines. The class aims to discuss how women are represented on stage and screen. I am looking forward to widening the lens of perspectives in which we analyze material!
2. When I turned 21, it was the December before I left to study abroad in Greece. I distinctly remember feeling as if my age did not match my experience in the world both physically and mentally/emotionally. Everything changed after that experience. Studying and traveling internationally has always been a reset button for me in how I grow and develop. Specifically related to my field, that is one of the reasons I was so motivated to apply for this fellowship because I know that connecting with others in our global community will provide me with a way to continue to practice how theatre builds ensemble and creates empathy. International has always shown up for me as way to connect deeper to others and to myself.

3. This is a picture of me and my daughter who makes me laugh, one of my favorite activities! :) She may have inherited some of my love for performance. Outside of that, I love being outdoors and running especially!

P.s. I LOVE tea too! Tea lovers UNITE!

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Yue Bian (she/her/hers), Assistant Professor, School of Educational Studies, UWB

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Yue Bian (she/her/hers), Assistant Professor, School of Educational Studies, UWB

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1. I teach the ESOL teacher preparation courses at UWB and I plan to incorporate COIL in one of the two courses: Second Language Acquisition, Bilingual Education, and the Structure of English, or Leadership, Advocacy, and Program Assessment in ESOL. I have not yet decided which course to start with and what COIL project to incorporate in the course

2. I am originally from China and came to the US in 2011 for graduate study. I am thus labeled as “international”—international student and then international scholar. While acknowledging how my transnational experience is essential to who I am and how I came to be, I feel this label is overemphasized on me and overlooked on others, those who may not have travel/study/work experiences outside their home country. In a time and era when the world is interconnected via technology, the space/location-bounded definition of “international” needs to be reimagined. People can access and interact with the world even on their couch and in a sense, everyone is international. My goal of incorporating COIL is thus to help my student teacher develop understandings and competence in integrating global perspectives in their curriculum and pedagogy so that they are equipped to teach global citizens in their future classrooms.

3. I love hiking and recently I’ve been trying to find some hiking trails closer to my neighborhood to have short hiking breaks from work. This picture was taken last week when it was sunny outside and I decided to take a spontaneous walk to the Paradise Valley.

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Janeil Engelstad (she/ her). Artist in Residence and Visiting Faculty, Institute of Innovation and Global Engagement, UWT.

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Janeil Engelstad (she/ her). Artist in Residence and Visiting Faculty, Institute of Innovation and Global Engagement, UWT.

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I: I teach Global Imaginations, which is an overview of Social Practice Art (my medium is Social Practice) for students in the Global Honors program at UWT. This winter I am also teaching Innovation and Design Studio. My intended COIL project, roughly, is to look at how artists and designers are working across disciplines to make social and environmental change globally and how students can learn from and take these experiences to bring new methodologies in their fields - health care, urban planning, science, etc. Also, I am very interested to think about how do we take the best of what we have experienced and learned from remote learning and apply it to the future classroom. When classes go back to full time in person. Beyond zoom office hours, for example.
II: My life and work have been shaped by studying, living and working around the world. These experiences, which began when I was a teenager, have opened my heart and mind, broadened my thinking and made my life rich beyond words. When we come together, as citizens of the world with no borders, we can imagine and accomplish things that otherwise would not be possible.
III: In a nod to Chris Lott I am sharing a photo where I am drinking a beautiful Bi Lou Chun on the Kona Coast, Hawaii. My partner and I own a tea company, importing specialty loose leaf teas (and aged brick pu-erhs), which we have sourced from small farms and larger, historic plantations in our travels throughout Asia.

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Last weekend in Bellingham with my two daughters between my wife and I. Cousin Haley is in the back. 

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Todd Conaway (he/him) Instructional Designer UWB

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Todd Conaway (he/him) Instructional Designer UWB

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1. On a good day, I get to wonder with faculty about all the possibilities that exist for students today. The best days are those when we dream up and create those experiences, and when I get to see the results. You can see some of the things I get to do here.
2. I firmly believe we are all connected. That is perhaps why "the web" interests me so much. Sharing our work, our lives, and learning from the stories of others is how we learn and grow. As a high school teacher I always pushed the seniors I worked with to go off to places, not schools,  that inspired them. To that end, I ended up with two daughters who did just that. One went off to New York University (and spent a year in Paris) and the other went off to the University if Glasgow in Scotland. I think we need more people who can see the world from the viewpoints of others. Being with others from far away places is one way to start that.
3. I do love to hike and to bike and to kayak and to run. My family is what makes the most sense to me.

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Sporting two of my obsessive hobbies: woodcase pencils and crosswords.

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Chris Lott (he/him), Digital Designer, UWT Office of Digital Learning

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Chris Lott (he/him), Digital Designer, UWT Office of Digital Learning

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1. My role as a designer is to help you create the richest and most connected learning experience possible through fusing the appropriate technologies with your pedagogy.
2. I'm part Native Alaskan (Iñupiat), born in the interior of that vast state, and then living all over it for 47 years, 20+ of which I taught online and hybrid courses in English, Education, Social Media, and various other edtech and tech topics. I was the Director of Teaching and Learning for the University of Alaska Fairbanks eCampus, shepherding a design team and various other staff while building from 0 to 43 fully online degree programs from Associates to Master's levels. Then, when my children moved out and away, I moved to warmer climes and came back to the hands-on work I'd been missing, working with innovative faculty like you!
3. I'm a word lover. I started as a poet and poetry magazine editor, drifted into pop linguistics, and I still have a regular short radio segment on words and language that airs on Alaska Public Radio. I'm an avid crossword solver and beginning crossword constructor (aka Cruciverbalist). I also collect pencils, play chess, and am deep into tea, particularly oolongs and pu-erhs (such as the early 1990s aged pu-erh I'm drinking right now).

(I also tend to speak quickly and write a lot 😄 ! Apologies in advance...)

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Me on my bike on a rainy day. Wearing rain gear and a reflective vest.

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Cindy Schaarschmidt (she/her), UW Tacoma OGA

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Cindy Schaarschmidt (she/her), UW Tacoma OGA

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1. Like Natalia, I am here to support your COIL projects.
2. I was born and raised in Germany and first moved to the U.S. in 2004. I have also had the opportunity to study abroad in the UK and in Russia and spent some time working and living in Spain and Guatemala. Learning languages is one of my passions, and I love how being able to communicate with someone in their native language opens up a window into their experience, their values, and their beliefs. It’s no accident that I work in the Office of Global Affairs at UW Tacoma, a place where I get to facilitate global learning for students and colleagues.
3. I love biking; it's still my main form of transportation in and around Tacoma. Since I started working from home, I really have to make an effort to get on my bike, and I miss my daily rides to work.

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Natalia Dyba (she/her), UWB Global Initiatives

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Natalia Dyba (she/her), UWB Global Initiatives

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1. My role as Director of Global Initiatives is to support you in launching amazing COIL courses.
2. I'm a "hyphenated American": Polish-American. I immigrated to the U.S. when I was 10,  and my life has been bi-cultural and multilingual since. As a young adult, my understanding of the world and myself was powerfully impacted by international learning opportunities in Honduras and Spain. Working at UWB continues to challenge and stretch my understanding of "international".
3.  I love the natural beauty of the PNW and get outside with my almost 4-year-old daughter and partner whenever we can!