Faculty and Staff

 Ukiah Staff

Lisa KellyLisa Ray Kelly, Ph.D.
Director, Ukiah Center
707-463-4800
lisa.kelly@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. 

 

Stephanie Paige Photo2Stephanie Paige
Program Coordinator, Ukiah Center
707-463-4800
stephanie.paige@dominican.edu

Stephanie Paige is the program coordinator of the Dominican University of California, Ukiah Center.  She received her B.A. in Strategic Management from Dominican’s Ukiah Center in 2009. Stephanie performs a wide variety of complex and highly responsible program coordination, office management, and administrative duties to support the Ukiah Center.  She implements and assists in recruitment, admissions, academic advising and student support activities, including preliminary interviewing and coordinating information sessions.   Stephanie enjoys encouraging others to continue their education.  At the same time, she is also earning her master’s degree in social work.  Stephanie appreciates the tight-knit community that Dominican’s Ukiah Center offers students, the high-quality and thoughtful instruction, and the knowledge of local schools, districts, and county cultures.

 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

Marianne Loeser
MA, Grand Canyon University

Debra Polak
MA, MA University of California, Berkeley

Barbara Powell
MA, California State University, Chico

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 WiedawRyan Wiedaw
BA, Sonoma State University 

 

 

 

 

Carol Zvolensky
MA, University of Arizona, Tuscon

Grace Curtin-FianoGrace Curtin-Fiano
MA, University of Maryland                                    

 

For more information on our instructors, download the list of all Ukiah instructors.

 

Contact

Ukiah Center
2240 Old River Road, Ukiah, CA 95482
o. 707-463-4800
f. 707-463-5525
ukadmissions@dominican.edu

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