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“Osiyo” (Cherokee for hello)                               I believe culture and context is important, impacts all we do, and mutual respect can fix most things!

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“Osiyo” (Cherokee for hello)                               I believe culture and context is important, impacts all we do, and mutual respect can fix most things!

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Paternally, I am Eastern Band Cherokee. My great, great grandparents walked the Trail of Tears.  I was fortunate to hear our historical stories from my grandmother and grand aunts.  Maternally, I am mostly European.  Again, I was fortunate to know my great, great grandmother Isabel Mealing who was very proud the our ancestors signed the Magna Carta.  Izzy is one of my greatest heros.  At 101, she emailed me weekly to make sure I was working hard on my dissertation.

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I give my time to several professional organizations:

Chair of the Disabilities and Other Vulnerable Population at the American Evaluation Association and represent the diversity groups on the AEA TIG Council.

I was also a founding member of Statistics Without Borders

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In my past I've served in a range of roles that have greatly informed my work and who I am today. At the practitioner level I've served in preschool, middle school, and high school, in regular and special education. At the director level I've worked as a regional vocational rehabilitation evaluator and as the State Director for Transition and Dropout Prevention for the Michigan Department of Education.

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I've been happily married since 1988.  My husband, John is the Senior Engineering Manager at the Kellogg Company.  Tidbit - my husband was part of the team that created Krave, my favorite Kellogg cereal!

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Assistant Professor in ELRT's Evaluation, Measurement and Research program and WMU PI for the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT) 

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Assistant Professor in ELRT's Evaluation, Measurement and Research program and WMU PI for the National Technical Assistance Center on Transition (NTACT) 

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Sigma Kappa Western Michigan Recruitment Video

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Uploaded by Western Michigan University on 2015-01-07.

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The background shows the view from our upstairs porch.  I live on a 10 acre farm with my husband John (on the tractor).  We have five children, eight horses, two border collies, several cats and chickens.

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I am Dr. June Gothberg, your instructor for this learning journey about qualitative inquiry.