Faculty and Staff

Ukiah Staff

Lisa Ray, Ph.D.
Director, Ukiah Center
707-463-4800
lisa.ray@dominican.edu

Dr. Lisa Ray Kelly is the director of the Dominican University of California, Ukiah Center. She received her Ph.D. and MA from Bowling Green State University, and her BA from the University of the Pacific. She holds multiple-subject and single-subject teaching credentials, as well as an administrative services credential. She has over thirty years of experience as an educator in California elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools. A former high school English teacher, she has previously held teaching positions at Mendocino College, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Davis. She currently teaches the elementary and secondary student teaching seminar, the Teaching Performance Assessment course, and the education and culture course at the Ukiah Center. Her current research interest is place-based education.

Ukiah Faculty

Dorothy Ayres MA, University of San Francisco	Erin Gardiner MA, University of San Francisco
Paul Joens-Poulton MA, Sonoma State University	Chris Herman MA, California State University, Fresno
Steve Jurist MA, California State University, Northridge	Debra Polak MA, MA University of California, Berkeley

Nancy Rogers-Zegarra MA, PhD, University of California Riverside	Katherine Sparrow BA, University of California, Davis
Phil Warf MA, University of South Carolina	Stephanie Wayment MA, Walden University
Lynn Zimmermann MA, University of California, Berkeley	Mitch Mendosa BA, California State University, Northridge
Ryan Wiedaw BA, Sonoma State University	Grace Curtin-Fiano MA, University of Maryland