Contributors to December AE-Extra
[Issue 10/2008]

Lynne Fukuda, an instructor of Psychology at Leeward Community College.  Fukuda has worked previously as an instructor of Anthropology at Windward Community College, a part-time instructor of Biology at Hawaii Pacific University, and an instructor at Central Texas College, based in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks.  She is a regular contributor to this journal in her monthly column, “The View from Here.”  Her previous column, "Fukuda's Chalkboard," can be found in the January-August 2002 editions of this journal, as well as various other writings in the 2001 editions.

Dan Lukiv, M.Ed., teaches English and creative writing at McNaughton Centre, Quesnel, BC, Canada. He is a poet, novelist, short story and article writer, and an independent education researcher. His writing has appeared over two thousand times in 18 countries. His formal apprenticeship as a writer includes intensive personal direction from masters such as Canada's Professor Robert Harlow, the USA's Paul Bagdon, and England's D. M. Thomas. He edits a literary journal, CHALLENGER international, which focuses attention on young, up-and-coming Canadian poets. He also edits The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education. He is married and has four daughters.

Joan E. Aitken, Ed.D., is Professor of Communication Arts at Park University in Missouri.  Aitken began teaching in 1969.  She has taught in Kansas City, Missouri for 20 years.  Her work includes K-graduate levels.

Vicky Gilpin, PhD, teaches English at Cerro Gordo High School, is an adjunct college instructor, and is principal/instructor at Temple B’nai Abraham in Decatur, Illinois. She has presented papers at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association national conference and the Network for Research in Jewish Education conference, among others. She has also published articles in the English Bulletin and the Jewish Educational Leadership Journal. She spends time doing research on strange topics, reading horror/fantasy novels, writing poetry, and spending time with her family: David, Shayna Punim, Merlyn, Talysyn, Sylas, and Byron.

Angela Velez, M.A., Ph.D(c), is the Faculty Development Coordinator for Davenport University Online in Grand Rapids, Michigan and an English instructor. Angela has taught face to face and online courses in English and the Humanities since 1998 and enjoys writing poetry, photography, and researching issues related to online teaching and learning, diversity, and developmental reading and writing. She is working on her dissertation at Capella University.

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