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Loyola Marymount University
2022-2023
https://academics.lmu.edu/ofd/ Photo: LMU Playa Vista Campus
Loyola Marymount University Welcome Message from our Provost 2022–2023 To the Loyola Marymount Community: I am pleased to introduce our new faculty colleagues for the 2022- 2023 academic year. This incredible group of tenure-line, visiting, and clinical faculty brings a breadth of expertise and life experience, and joins our community of outstanding teacher-scholars, dedicated staff, and ambitious students. They come to LMU at a time of renewal and growth. Thanks to the University’s strong reputation, responsible fiscal management, generous donors, and sense of community, we are poised to emerge from the pandemic with renewed vigor and an exciting array of opportunities that will positively transform LMU. This includes “Creating the World We Want to Live In,” LMU’s new strategic plan and its five spotlight initiatives focused on (1) learning for justice, inclusion, and transformation, (2) integrative and interdisciplinary thinking, (3) personalized connections, (4) discovery and innovation in graduate and professional education, and (5) expanding access to an LMU education. This academic year marks the third year of the LMU Anti-Racism Project, which invites and challenges members of the LMU community to engage in a collective commitment to anti-racism at multiple levels. Faculty and staff are encouraged to take part in or utilize the many resources that are available to help advance our efforts in becoming an anti-racist institution, including Restorative Practices Training, Implicit Bias Workshops, Cultural Consciousness Conversations, and more. Please join me in welcoming our new faculty and helping them feel at home on our campus by inviting them into our offices, celebrating their academic achievements, and helping them understand our mission as we encourage learning, educate the whole person, and lead lives in the service of faith and the promotion of justice. I look forward to working together to make the 2022-2023 academic year a success. Sincerely, Thomas Poon, Ph.D. Executive Vice President and Provost
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“Capacity for Laughter: Black Women and the
NEW FACULTY American Comedic Tradition.
2022-2023:
NATHAN CHAN
Assistant Professor
Political Science and International
BIOSKETCHES Relations
Nathan Chan is an Assistant
Professor of Political Science at
Loyola Marymount University. He specializes in
American Politics and Research Methods. He has
published or has forthcoming journal articles
in Perspectives on Politics, Political
Tenure-Line Faculty Behavior, and Political Research Quarterly among
others and has featured his research in
the Washington Post and the Brookings Institute. He
Bellarmine College of teaches courses in race, ethnicity, and politics;
political behavior; and empirical approaches in
Liberal Arts political science. Nathan is from Eagle Rock, a
neighborhood in Northeast LA. In his spare time, he
JALYLAH BURRELL enjoys traveling, hiking, and concerts and live music.
Assistant Professor
African American Studies
HEANGJIN PARK
Jalylah Burrell earned her Assistant Professor
B.A. in English from Spelman Asian & Asian American Studies
College and an M.A. in Professor Park received his Ph.D.
Africana Studies from New in Anthropology from the
York University. She received her Ph.D. in University of Chicago, where he
American Studies and African American Studies was a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the
from Yale University and most recently taught at Department of Anthropology and the College. He
San José State University where she was an earned his B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology from Seoul
Assistant Professor of African American Studies. National University, South Korea. Professor Park’s
Her scholarship was previously supported by research and teaching interests are broadly
postdoctoral fellowships at DePaul University’s concerned with the global circulation of
African and Black Diaspora Department and Rice commodities, industrial production and distribution
University’s Center for the Study of Women, of food, and nationalism in contemporary Northeast
Gender, and Sexuality. Her research and teaching Asia. Based on his ethnographic research in a kimchi
are focused on African Diasporic literature and company in China, his book project Manufacturing
popular culture and enhanced by experience as a “Korea” in China examines transborder mobilities
multiplatform storyteller—pop culture critic, and nationalist worldviews across South Korea and
digital producer, oral historian, and deejay. China. As a visual anthropologist, he combines
Praised by hip hop magazine XXL for her photography, ethnographic film, and media analysis
"insightful, intellectual dissection of hip-hop, to explore the aesthetic configuration of cultures and
feminism and Black culture," she has taught and nations, such as in his photographic article on
written extensively about Black popular culture. Anthropology and Photography and his documentary
Her current book project is tentatively titled Chejian (post-production). His research has been
supported by Wenner-Gren Foundation for
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Anthropological Research, Paulson Institute, and Economics from Emory University. In addition to her
University of Chicago Center in Beijing. Professor academic accomplishments, she worked in the
Park is also participating in the collaborative Congress of the Republic of Peru as an economic
project “Logistics in the Making of Mobile assistant and at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta -
Worlds,” funded by the Neubauer Collegium for Americas Center as a research assistant. She co-
Culture and Society. authored a book, “El porvenir de la vejez:
demografía, empleo y ahorro", analyzing Peru's
SAQIB HUSSAIN pension system (2018). Professor Moreno's research
Assistant Professor focuses on Labor Macroeconomics, Savings and
Theological Studies Retirement, and Social Security Systems.
Professor Saqib Hussain
received his D.Phil. in Oriental ALI OLOMI
Studies and his M.Phil. in Assistant Professor
Islamic Studies and History at History
the University of Oxford. His research focusses on Professor Ali A Olomi earned his
the Qur’an’s literary features, and its engagement B.A. at UCLA and his M.A. and
with the communities and ideas of late antiquity, Ph.D. at UCI. Prior to joining
especially the Jewish and Christian traditions. His LMU as Assistant Professor in
D.Phil. was an examination of the Qur’an’s the Department of History, he was tenure-track
engagement with Jewish and Christian attitudes faculty at Pennsylvania State University Abington and
to law and morality. He has publications on the is an Affiliated Scholar with the Rutgers Center for
Qur’an and gender, the Qur’an and the Security, Race, and Rights. Dr. Olomi is a historian of
apocalyptic tradition, and on the Qur’an’s medieval Islamic thought and its reception in modern
portrayal of various biblical figures, including Jesus Middle East political movements. He examines the
(in a forthcoming volume). entanglements of science, religion, and imperial
imagination in the 10th-14th century Perso-Islamic
FAN LIANG world and way premodern formations were
Assistant Professor redeployed in discourses of modernity in 19th century
Economics pan-Islamism. His work has been supported by
Professor Fan Liang fellowships and grants from the Samuel Jordan
received her B.A. in Center for Persian Studies and the University of
economics from DePaul California Humanities Commons. He is author of the
University and her M.A. in book chapters “Women and Education in Islam,”
economics from the University of Iowa. She “Jinn in the Qur’an,” and in addition to his academic
earned her Ph.D. in Economics from the University work, has written for the Washington Post, Public
of Georgia. In her research, she primarily studies Books, and elsewhere as a public intellectual.
asset markets with search and information
frictions. ADAM THAL
Assistant Professor
CARLA MORENO Political Science and International
Assistant Professor Relations
Economics Professor Adam Thal earned his
Carla Moreno received her Ph.D. in Political Science from
B.A. in Economics from the Princeton University and his
Universidad del Pacifico B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior
(Lima, Peru) and M.Sc. at to joining LMU, Professor Thal was a postdoc at Yale
Emory University. She received her Ph.D. in University and a research scientist at Meta. His
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research focuses on topics including American gravitational space. Along with conducting basic
politics, political behavior, social media, and research of these mechanisms, she also applies these
inequality. His dissertation on the politics of rich findings to further understand how they contribute
Americans was chosen as the best dissertation on to vestibular and motion-related disorders such as
political psychology by the American Political motion sickness, vertigo, dystonia, and acrophobia.
Science Association in 2018. She utilizes a variety of methods to study these
phenomena including psychophysics, perceptual
REBECCA WALL learning paradigms, virtual reality, eye-tracking, and
Assistant Professor neuromodulation. She continues to collaborate with
History co-authors and colleagues from UCLA on these
Professor Rebecca Wall investigations, including upcoming articles that focus
earned her Ph.D. in History on cultural differences in the perception of visual
from Stanford University. illusions.
Prior to coming to LMU, she
was Visiting Assistant TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON
Professor of History at Hamilton College. In her Assistant Professor
book manuscript, Wall considers how West Psychological Science
African nations balanced individual sovereignty Professor Timothy Williamson is
with need to jointly manage a critical water an Assistant Professor in the
resource, the Senegal River. She has also begun a Department of Psychological
project on the long-term relationship between Science. He received a B.A. in
climate change and migration in the Western Psychology from Pitzer College,
Sahel. Wall is passionate about interdisciplinary an MPH from Claremont Graduate University, and a
research, and she co-directs a digital history Ph.D. in Clinical Health Psychology from the
project, the Senegal Liberations Project, with University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining
colleagues at Stanford University and the National LMU, he completed his clinical training at Weill
Archives of Senegal. Wall’s research has been Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian Hospital
supported by the Fulbright-Hays DDRA, Social and pursued additional postdoctoral training in
Science Research Council, West African Research psychosocial oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Association, and the National Socio-Environmental Cancer Center. In his research, Professor Williamson
Synthesis Center, and she has published in African studies relationships between stigma, stress, and
Studies Review, Esclavages & Post-Esclavages, and health. He uses qualitative and quantitative methods
Environmental Science & Policy. to understand how some psychological and social
factors (e.g., stigma, social adversity) can increase
CHELA WILLEY risk for negative health outcomes, whereas others
Assistant Professor (e.g., self-compassion, mindfulness) can promote
Psychological Science resilience in the face of profoundly stressful
Professor Willey earned her experiences, including chronic diseases such as
B.A. in Psychology with a cancer. He has focused his recent work on
second major in Justice Studies understanding and reducing the stigma experienced
& Criminology and her M.A. in Experimental by adults with lung cancer. His research has been
Psychology from CSU San Marcos. She received supported by the National Cancer Institute, the
her Ph.D. in Psychology from UCLA with a American Lung Association, and the Association for
specialization in Cognitive Psychology. Her main Psychological Science.
research focus is on perceptual, cognitive, and
neurological mechanisms that underlie bodily
awareness, self-motion, and self-orientation in 3D
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College of Business Corporate Governance) from the Ivey Business
School at Western University in Canada.
Professor Farah was an Assistant Professor of
Administration Strategy and International Business and got
promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure at the
HUAYU (JADE) CHEN
Olayan School of Business at AUB just before joining
Assistant Professor
Accounting LMU.
Professor Jade Chen has a His research focuses on (international) corporate
Bachelor of Economics in Public governance, (global) leadership, and (dis)abilities and
Finance from Shanghai has been published in quality journals such as
University of Finance and Economics, and a Leadership Quarterly, Journal of World Business,
Master of Science in Accounting from Michigan Corporate Governance: An International Review,
State University. She earned her Ph.D. in Management Research Review, Journal of Strategy
accounting from the University of Arizona. Her and Management, and AACSB Insights.
primary research interest is in the area of He has received multiple prestigious national and
auditing, with a focus on various factors that international awards and grants for his research,
affect auditors' ability to deliver high audit quality, teaching, and service [e.g., Research: Several
such as audit firm internal governance and human Academy of Management (AOM) Best Paper Awards
capital management. She also works on research and Best Paper Proceedings; Multiple internal and
at the intersection of auditing and financial external grants; Teaching: Most Inspirational, Most
accounting such as the role of auditing and audit Supportive, and Most Caring Professor Awards;
regulation in shaping firms' disclosure decisions. European Foundation for Management Development
Her research applies theories and perspectives (EFMD) Best Case Award; Service: AOM and Academy
from other disciplines such as spatial economics of International Business (AIB) Best Reviewer
and labor economics to auditing settings, with the Awards; etc.]. He is also an experienced leadership
objective of advancing the understanding of the coach and (dis)ability activist.
audit industry. Her solo-authored paper "When
Employees Go to Court: Audit Office Labor Market
Reputation and Audit Quality" was recognized as MELISSA FITZPATRICK
the Best Archival Paper by the Auditing Midyear Assistant Professor
Meeting 2022. Management (CEB)
Professor Melissa Fitzpatrick
BASSAM FARAH received her Ph.D. in Philosophy
Assistant Professor from Boston College, just before
Management & Leadership starting her previous position as an Assistant
Bassam Farah is a legally Professor of Practice in ethics in Boston College’s
blind Professor of Strategy Carroll School of Management. Her role in the Carroll
and International Business. School was to introduce incoming students to
He received his B.A. in philosophy as a lived practice, while guiding them
Psychology and Master’s in Business toward an understanding of business as a force for
Administration from the American University of good and vehicle for change. Prior to earning her
Beirut (AUB), his Master’s in Psychology and Ph.D. doctorate, Melissa received an M.A. in Philosophy
in Psychology (on Leadership) from the Lebanese from Loyola Marymount University, and a B.S. in
University, and his Ph.D. in Business Communication from Boston University. She is the
Administration with a specialization in Strategy co-author of Radical Hospitality: From Thought to
and International Business (on International Action; chief among her research interests is
Loyola Marymount University NEW FACULTY 2022-2023
understanding how to foster a more sustainable Management from the Royal Institute of Technology
community with the other-than-human world, (KTH), Sweden. Prior to joining Loyola Marymount
and, as a vital foundation for that, how to University, Professor Zare was Assistant Professor of
overcome instrumental values. Her work in Supply Chain and Operations Management at Neil
normative ethics focuses on the intersection of Griffin College of Business, Arkansas State University.
post-Kantian Continental philosophy and He teaches various undergraduate and graduate-
contemporary virtue ethics, arguing for the level courses, including Business Analytics, Supply
significance of "self-disruption" in ethical Chain Management, and Operations Management.
development. Melissa has also done integrated Professor Zare’s primary research encompasses
teaching, research, and community outreach in topics in behavioral operations management,
pre-college philosophy in the Mississippi Delta and decision-making strategies, crowdsourcing, and the
on the Mexican-American border in El Paso, application of Blockchain in operations and supply
Texas. chain management. He has extensive international
work experience involving the application of data-
MYOUNGHEE (CHLOE) MOON driven analyses and quantitative techniques to the
Assistant Professor business sector. Prior to his work at Arkansas State
Marketing and Business Law University, he served as SAP University Alliances
Professor Myounghee (Chloe) Faculty Coordinator and lecturer at the University of
Moon earned her Ph.D. in Texas at Arlington (UTA). Moreover, his professional
Marketing at University of experience includes consulting for various
California, Riverside (UCR). She received her B.B.A. organizations, including tech companies,
in Business Administration from Ewha Womans entrepreneurial start-ups, and non-profits.
University, South Korea, and her M.S. degree in
Integrated Marketing Communications from
Northwestern University. Professor Moon’s College of
research has focused on modeling the impact of
new technology-enabled channels on product Communication and Fine
manufacturers and consumers, applying industrial
organization and econometrics methods. Her Arts
doctoral research examined the effect of
ride-sharing platforms on automobile PALOMA BARHAUGH-BORDAS
manufacturers and consumer’s vehicle purchase Assistant Professor
decisions. Myounghee taught database marketing Art and Art History
and services marketing at UCR before joining Professor Paloma Barhaugh-
LMU. Prior to her academic career, she worked as Bordas (she + they) is an artist,
a marketing manager for an e-commerce activist and educator who uses
company in South Korea. a connection-based approach
to build community through
SINA ZARE their creative and scholarly practice. Barhaugh-
Assistant Professor Bordas earned a B.A. in Studio Arts with distinction
Information Systems and from Carleton College and an M.F.A. in Print Media
Business Analytics from Rhode Island School of Design. Their solo
Professor Sina Zare earned exhibition at the Handwerker Gallery in Ithaca, NY,
his Ph.D. in Management explored the notion of becoming local by working
Science from the University with non-native and invasive plants using textiles,
of Texas at Arlington (UTA). He received his M.Sc. sculpture, print, and a 60-foot hand-knotted net.
degree in Production Engineering and
Loyola Marymount University NEW FACULTY 2022-2023
DIVINE KWASI GBAGBO to LMU, he was a tenure-track faculty member at
Assistant Professor California State University Fresno where he also
Music served as Graduate Teaching Coordinator. He
Professor Divine Kwasi works on developing equitable pedagogical
Gbagbo earned his Ph.D. in practices within and outside classroom spaces.
Interdisciplinary Arts (Fine Professor Juárez’s areas of research include
Arts), with specialized focus critical pedagogies within the field of
in Ethnomusicology and Musicology, from Ohio communication and development of equitable
University. His published Ph.D. dissertation educational practices within institutions to better
entitled, “Rites, Recreation, and Rulership: value multiple forms of intelligence and
Christianity and Ewe Music of Ghana” examined knowledge. Professor Juárez is the author of
the understudied relationship between “Chicana Feminist Ontologies and the Social
Christianity and Ghanaian Ewe musical practices. Process of Constructing Knowledge” published in
He received a Master’s Degree in the journal the Review of Communication (2019).
Ethnomusicology from Kent State University and a He is the lead editor of a forthcoming edited
Bachelor of Education degree in Music and volume titled Migrant World Making, in review
Ghanaian Languages (Ewe) Education at the with Michigan State University Press. In 2021,
University College of Education in Winneba, Professor Juárez received the Activism and Social
Ghana. Professor Gbagbo’s varied levels of Justice Pedagogy Award by the Social Justice &
expertise in scholarship, research, teaching, and Activism Division of the National Communication
performance has given him more than two Association. Professor Juárez is the incoming
decades of teaching experience in world music Associate Editor of the National Communication
cultures, African and African American music, Association peer-reviewed journal
music history, African studies, and Communication Education.
interdisciplinary arts in different cultural contexts.
His research interests include the postcolonial
influence and its ramifications on musical Frank R. Seaver College of
traditions of the Ewe of Ghana and Togo. He is
also interested in the way African music Science and Engineering
performance in the twenty-first century
contributes to narratives and theorizations of
RYAN HUNT
continuity and change in the diaspora. As a
Assistant Professor
composer of choral art music, Professor Gbagbo Chemistry and Biochemistry
blends indigenous Ghanaian-Ewe compositional Professor Jonathan Ryan Hunt
styles with the acquired Western conventional earned his B.S. in Chemistry with
composition techniques. a minor in Mathematics from
Centre College in Danville,
Kentucky. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry
SERGIO JUAREZ from the University of Southern California, where he
Assistant Professor used ultrafast spectroscopic methods to study the
Communication Studies kinetics of excited state proton- and electron-
Professor Sergio transfer reactions. His graduate research was
Fernando Juárez earned partially funded by the National Science Foundation
his Ph.D. in Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP).
Communication Studies While at USC, Ryan taught General Chemistry
from the University of Denver. Prior to coming through the Burg Teaching Fellowship and learned
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teaching methodologies at the CET Future Faculty was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at
Training Institute. Recently, Ryan was a lecturer of Northeastern University, Boston, studying the impact
Thermodynamics at the University of California, of active video games on physical activity behavior,
Los Angeles. While at UCLA, he served as a visiting body composition, and cognitive parameters in
scholar, studying the thermoelectric effect in children. His research primarily focuses on exploring
polymers. Ryan is most proud of his publication how lifestyle influences aging biomarkers,
“Photodriven Deprotonation of Alcohols by a modulating the risk to age-related diseases. Part of
Quinoline Photobase”, published in the Journal of his research also explores the interaction between
Physical Chemistry A. He will be doing similar age, training level, physiological parameters, gender,
research with students at LMU. and performance in endurance sports.
ROBERT MUSCI LE WANG
Assistant Professor Assistant Professor
Health and Human Sciences Mathematics
Professor Robert Musci Professor Le Wang earned her
received his B.S. in Health Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the
and Exercise Science at University of Pennsylvania. She
Wake Forest University and received her M.S. degrees in
M.S. in Health and Exercise Science at Colorado Applied Statistics and Biology from Villanova
State University. In 2016, he completed a University, and a B.S. in Biological Sciences from
Fulbright fellowship in Venice, Italy studying the Zhejiang University, China. Prior to joining LMU,
influence of the urban environment on older adult Professor Wang was an Assistant Professor of
health and mobility. He earned his Ph.D. in Human Statistics at Villanova University. Her research
Bioenergetics at Colorado State University where interests include designs and statistical methods to
he studied the mechanisms of aging and chronic analyze two-phase sampling studies, statistical
diseases such as muscle wasting. Afterward, methods to correct for participation bias in genetic
Professor Musci was a postdoctoral research association studies, and collaborative research in
fellow at the University of Utah studying skeletal biomedical and ecological studies. She recently
muscle regeneration. His research primarily published her work on the novel two-phase sampling
focuses on the role of mitochondrial function, designs for studying binary outcomes in Biometrics.
whole-body metabolism, and protein turnover in Professor Wang is passionate about both teaching
the context of heath, aging, and chronic disease. and research. She enjoys interacting with students in
her classroom.
CAIO SOUSA
Assistant Professor ROBIN WILSON
Health and Human Sciences Professor
Professor Caio Victor Sousa Mathematics
received his M.S. and Ph.D. Professor Robin Wilson earned
in Physical Education and his Ph.D. at the University of
Exercise Science at Catholic California, Davis. Prior to joining
University of Brasilia, Brazil. He earned his Ph.D. the faculty at LMU Dr. Wilson
studying aging biomarkers in master athletes and served as Professor in the Department of
non-athletes. In 2018, he completed a fellowship Mathematics and Statistics at California State
in the Miller School of Medicine, University of Polytechnic University, Pomona. Dr. Wilson has also
Miami, studying the influence of a community- been a Visiting Professor at Georgetown University
based exercise program on depression scores in and Pomona College. His scholarship includes both
people living with HIV. Afterward, Professor Sousa mathematics and the scholarship of teaching and
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learning. His research in mathematics is in the TOWN by MacArthur Fellow Peter Hessler and a
field of low-dimensional topology where he is series pilot based on a Penguin YA novel for Super
interested problems related to knots and surfaces Deluxe. He has written projects for The Mark Gordon
in 3-manifolds, problems in spatial graph theory, Company, Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, Ivanhoe
and the Steinberg module of the braid group. Pictures/SK Global, Don Mischer Productions, and
Professor Wilson’s work in mathematics Wanda Pictures. He wrote the original story for and
education focuses on issues of equity and access produced the Chinese romance film 100 DAYS 真愛
for students of color in the K-12 and 100 天 that world premiered at Hawaii International
undergraduate mathematics classroom. Professor Film Festival and was an official selection at the 23rd
Wilson serves as Co-PI of the NSF funded Golden Rooster Hundred Flowers Film Festival in
Storytelling for Mathematics Learning and Mainland China. A Sundance Collab Advisor, he was
Engagement project that seeks to explore the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl
impact of mathematics storytelling by Fellowship Finalist and Samuel Goldwyn Writing
mathematicians of color on K-12 teacher and Award recipient. Prior to LMU, he was a tenured
student mathematics learning and engagement. In Associate Professor of Screenwriting at Emerson
addition to his scholarship, Dr. Wilson is also College and has taught at Northwestern University,
active in the local community where he is a part of UCLA Film and TV Professional Program, and Taipei
the Algebra Project network and works to support National University of the Arts as a Fulbright Senior
programs that promote math literacy in the Los Specialist. A current-active member of Writers Guild
Angeles Area. of America West, he previously served as co-chair of
the guild’s Asian American Writers committee. He is
represented by Anonymous Content and United
School of Film and Talent Agency.
Television School of Education
WEIKO LIN
Associate Professor CYNTHIA ALCANTAR
Screenwriting Associate Professor
Professor Weiko Lin earned Educational Leadership and
his M.F.A. in Film and Administration
Television and B.A. in English Cynthia M. Alcantar is an
Creative Writing from UCLA. Associate Professor and Director
Fluent in Mandarin, Weiko is a writer/producer of the Higher Education
and author who explore Asian diaspora and create Administration program in the School of Education at
global narrative content. Currently, he is Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles (LMU).
developing two Disney Plus Asia original series Prior to joining LMU, she was an Assistant Professor
and a feature biopic about an American flying ace of Higher Education Leadership at the University of
of World War II with Oscar nominee Andrew Lazar Nevada, Reno, and held postdoctoral fellowships
attached to produce. He authored CRAZY from the Consortium for Faculty Diversity (2018-
SCREENWRITING SECRETS: HOW TO CAPTURE A 2019) and the Institute for Global-Local Action &
GLOBAL AUDIENCE (Michael Wiese Productions, Study (2017-2018) at Pitzer College. She earned a
2019) and its traditional Chinese edition 好萊塢劇 B.A. Liberal Studies with a concentration in
本創作術 (Briefing Press, 2022). His past Psychology, minor in Sociology from the University of
commissioned works include feature adaptation California, Riverside, M.A. in Higher Education from
of New York Times best-selling memoir RIVER Claremont Graduate University, and Ph.D. from theLoyola Marymount University NEW FACULTY 2022-2023
University of California, Los Angeles in Social of the Council for Exceptional Children and a
Science and Comparative Education. Her research Director-at-Large for Kappa Delta Pi Incorporated.
focuses on the social structures that impact the
social mobility and integration of racial/ethnic KENZO SUNG
minoritized and immigrant populations in the Associate Professor
United States. Particularly, the influence of Teaching and Learning
schools (i.e., public K-20 schools, community Kenzo Sung earned his B.A. in
colleges, and Minority Serving Institutions) on the Integrative Biology from the
educational pathways and civic participation of University of California at
racial/ethnic minoritized and immigrant students. Berkeley, Ed.M. in Teaching and Learning from
Her research has been published in The Review of Harvard University, and Ph.D. in Education Policy and
Higher Education, Teachers College Social Cultural Studies in Education from the
Record, Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, University of California at Berkeley. Prior to joining
Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Hispanic LMU, Professor Sung was recently awarded tenure at
Higher Education, Qualitative Psychology, and a Rowan University where he served as an Assistant
co-edited book on race and education published Professor of Urban Education and Ed Foundations,
through Teachers College Press. and affiliated faculty with Africana Studies and
American Studies. Professor Sung’s research has
CHRISTOPHER CORMIER been shaped by his years attending and teaching in
Associate Professor urban public schools, and include education policy
Teaching and Learning and leadership, urban education, bilingual education,
Professor Christopher J. critical race theory, ethnic studies, political economy,
Cormier earned his Ph.D. and history of education. He has published in various
from the University of Illinois journals including Race Ethnicity and Education,
Urbana-Champaign in Peabody Journal of Education, and Bilingual Research
Special Education. He also received a Master’s in Journal as well as chapters in Handbook of Urban
Education with emphasis in Psychology from Education, Race and Urban Communities, and
Pepperdine University, a Master’s in Theology Research Methods for Social Justice and Equity in
from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor Education. Professor Sung previously was an Andrew
of Science from Fisk University. Professor Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Wellesley College, and
Cormier is a former special education teacher and has been awarded funding from the Ford
has taught first through 12th in Title 1 schools in Foundation, Spencer Foundation, Mellon
the Greater Los Angeles Metropolitan area. His Foundation, University of Cambridge, and Rockefeller
research program focuses on the social and Brothers Fund. His current and prior service include
cultural contexts of minoritized learners and as Secretary for the Critical Race Studies in Education
teachers in special education. Under this Association, Communications Director for AERA
overarching theme, he has two lines of Division G, and on journal editorial boards for Race
scholarship. The first is on the professional and Ethnicity and Education, International Studies in
socio-emotional lives of minoritized teachers. The Sociology of Education, Educational Policy Analysis
second is on culturally informed identification of Archives, and Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching,
minoritized students in special education. and Research. Professor Sung started as a youth
Professor Cormier brings a comparative lens to organizer and worked as a public middle school
both of his research lines with studies in national teacher in Oakland, CA prior to entering academia.
and international contexts. He is the current
President of the Division for Culturally and
Linguistically Diverse Exceptional Learners (DDEL)Loyola Marymount University NEW FACULTY 2022-2023
Term Faculty Comley’s research broadly focuses on
intersectionality, sociology of gender, critical race
theory, and sociology of sport. Specifically, her work
Bellarmine College of focuses on Latinx communities' participation in
sports and the ways in which their experiences
Liberal Arts intersect with racialized and gendered barriers to
accessing lifestyle sports. Additionally, Professor
Comley works closely with incarcerated youth and is
IRIS BLAKE currently working on new research focusing on if
Visiting Assistant Professor sport can serve as a vehicle for social mobility of
Women and Gender Studies
formerly incarcerated youth. She is excited to return
Professor Iris Blake to the Loyola Marymount community as a Visiting
(she/they) received her Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology.
Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies
from the University of MALCOM FRIERSON
California, Riverside. She Visiting Assistant Professor
earned her M.M. in Ethnomusicology from the African American Studies
University of Texas at Austin and her B.A. in Music Professor Malcolm
and French from Arizona State University. Most Frierson earned his Ph.D. in
recently, they were a UC President’s Postdoctoral African American History from
Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles, the University of Memphis. His research centers on
where they were affiliated with the Department the politics of culture in the African American
of Musicology. Their research interests include experience. Freedom in Laughter, his nonfiction
critical race sound studies, performance studies, study of African American comedy during the Civil
transnational and decolonial feminist theories, Rights Movement, won a nomination for the 2021
disability studies, and embodiment. She has MAAH Stone Book Award. His two novels, A Place in
published in the journal Performance Matters and the World and Finding Jamaica, explore African
is currently working on her first book project. This Diaspora themes. Professor Frierson is currently
project interrogates how coloniality has shaped researching Dick Gregory's human rights activism and
knowledge about the voice and analyzes completing a novel on the Black Lives Matter
contemporary multimedia works that engage Movement. He most recently taught in the
embodied performance, visual art, and Department of History at the University of Oregon.
speculative fiction as alternative archives for
voicing and listening. CHRIS JACKSON
Visiting Assistant Professor
CASSIE COMLEY Political Science and
Visiting Assistant Professor International Relations
Sociology Professor Chris Jackson earned
Professor Cassie Comley his B.A. in History from Centre
(she/her) earned her B.A. in College and his M.A. in
Psychology from California International Studies from the University of Illinois,
State University, Long Urbana-Champaign. He earned his Ph.D. in Political
Beach, and her M.A. in Science from Georgia State University with
Sociology from the University of Oregon. She concentrations in International Relations and
received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Graduate Comparative Politics. His research focuses on the role
Certificate in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality of subnational groups in international negotiations,
Studies from the University of Oregon. Professor mediation, and peacebuilding. He has conductedLoyola Marymount University NEW FACULTY 2022-2023
internationally funded field research in Cyprus,
Kosovo, Macedonia, and Serbia and his research ANTHONY PALMISCNO
has been published in the Journal of European Assistant Professor
Integration, Ethnopolitics, and Civil Wars. Modern Languages & Lit/ Spanish
Professor Anthony Palmiscno
ALEXANDRO JARA earned his Ph.D. in Iberian
Assistant Professor Studies from The Ohio State
Chicana/o & Latina/o Studies University, focusing on Iberian
Professor Alexandro J. Jara contemporary popular culture studies. His primary
earned his B.A. in Latin research interests include the performance of
American History with an identity and cultural branding through food and wine
Urban Education minor from Santa Clara in the Spanish autonomous community of La Rioja,
University. He worked as an elementary and and how such gastronomic expressions sustain
middle school teacher before pursuing his M.A. regional identity within the larger context of Spain
and Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico. His and neighboring Basque peripheries. His work
dissertation, “‘Do You Know the Way to San Jose?’ primarily interrogates consumption in bars, wine
Ethnic Mexicans, Urbanism, Culture, and Politics in festivals, and other gastronomic spaces of
the Emerging Silicon Valley, 1940-1980,” examines conviviality. Other academic interests include
the (sub)urbanization of Northern California’s representations of food and wine in contemporary
largest municipality, its impact on the Latino Spanish literature, language pedagogy, technology-
population, and the group’s contributions to enhanced learning in the foreign language classroom,
social, cultural, and political activity in the city. and performance pedagogy to foster spaces of safety
Professor Jara worked as an adjunct instructor in within the classroom and community. He recently co-
the Department of History at Santa Clara edited the volume Kindred Spirits: Representations
University while finishing his dissertation. He is in of Alcohol in Literature and Culture with Jose Diaz
the process of drafting an article for submission to Cuesta.
the Journal of Urban History.
MICHAEL PATZIA
VICENTE MUNOZ REJA Visiting Assistant Professor
Visiting Assistant Professor Philosophy
Philosophy Professor Michael Patzia grew up
Professor Vicente Muñoz-Reja in Vancouver, B.C. Canada and
earned his Ph.D. in philosophy spent his high school and college
from Boston College, years in the U.S. After receiving
supported by a Fulbright fellowship, and his B.A. his Ph.D. in philosophy from Vanderbilt University in
and M.A. in Philosophy and History in Universidad 2000, he began his full-time teaching career in
Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). He has taught at Nicaragua as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at
Babson College and at several universities in Ave Maria College of the Americas. Eventually he
Spain, and has acted as visiting researcher at Köln ended up at Central College in Pella, IA where he
(Germany), Warwick (UK), and Panthéon- became an Associate Professor of Philosophy. Due to
Sorbonne (France). His research focuses on post- some family circumstances, he resigned his position
Kantian European philosophy, especially classic and relocated to Southern California with his son in
phenomenology. He also works on Latin American 2014. Since then, he has been teaching philosophy at
and Iberian philosophies. He is co-editing the Loyola Marymount University in an adjunct capacity
upcoming volume Phenomenology, Ontology, as well as teaching humanities courses at the Coburn
Metaphysics for Brill, which results from his work School. In 2020-2021, he was a Visiting Assistant
as convenor of the Boston Phenomenology Circle. Professor of Philosophy at LMU. His academicLoyola Marymount University NEW FACULTY 2022-2023
interests have been primarily focused on Ancient Her debut novel, CALL HIM BY NAME, told through
Greek Philosophy, Asian Philosophy and Ethics, court transcripts, journal entries, and poetry is
and he has published articles on Anaxagoras, forthcoming from Abrams/Amulet in Fall 2023.
Xenophanes, and Plato. Professor Patzia also plays
upright bass professionally all over the region and MARY SEABROOK-DERRINGTON
he is an avid golfer. Visiting Assistant Professor
Psychology
MARIA PIZZANO Professor Seabrook-Derrington
Visiting Assistant Professor earned her M.A. in Counseling
Psychology Psychology with a Marriage, Family,
Professor Maria Pizzano and Child Counseling specialization and her Ph. D. in
earned her B.A.s in Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology from the
Psychology and in University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a
Molecular Cell Biology licensed psychologist and previously practiced at the
from the University of California at Berkeley. She Center for Adolescent and Family Care in Texas, the
began working with children and families with Child Guidance Clinic in Santa Barbara, the Center for
autism spectrum disorder (ASD) upon completion Adolescent and Family Care Medical Group in Dana
of her degrees and returned to school to study Point, and the Center for Family Therapy in Newport
interventions to improve the lives of those with Beach. While practicing in Texas, she maintained
ASD. She completed her M.A and Ph.D. under the privileges at several psychiatric hospitals, and she
advising of Dr. Connie Kasari in the Education also served as a predoctoral intern at the Long Beach
department at the University of California, Los VA Medical Center. Her research interests include
Angeles. Professor Pizzano teaches courses in the divorce, the effects of divorce on children, and social
department of Psychology. She has continued to cognitive theory. Professor Seabrook-Derrington is
work with families impacted by ASD and other no stranger to LMU, where she began teaching in
neurodevelopmental disorders, both in-person 1999 as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
and remotely, to deliver training, teaching, and and has consistently served as a lecturer/senior
assessments. Her research focuses on lecturer since that time. She has taught various
individualizing supports for those with ASD, courses at LMU including general psychology, life
particularly children who are low-frequency span development, social psychology, personality,
communicators. abnormal psychology, and psychology of marriage.
Before coming to LMU, Dr. Seabrook-Derrington
HANNAH SAWYERR taught as an Adjunct Professor and as a Visiting
Visiting Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine
English University’s Graduate School of Education and
Hannah V. Sawyerr is a Psychology.
Sierra Leonean-American
writer with a passion for ZOE SLATOFF
people and storytelling. Clinical Assistant Professor
Her spoken word has been featured on the British Yoga Studies
Broadcasting Channel's (BBC) "World Have Your Zoë Slatoff has a Ph.D. in
Say" program, as well as the National Education Religion and Philosophy from
Association's "Do You Hear Us?" campaign. Her Lancaster University and an
written word has been featured in publications M.A. in Asian Languages and
such as gal-dem, ROOKIE and Sesi Mag. She holds Cultures from Columbia University. She is delighted
a B.A. in English from Morgan State University and to be teaching Sanskrit and Yoga Philosophy in the
an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Yoga Studies M.A. Program here at LMU. Zoë is theLoyola Marymount University NEW FACULTY 2022-2023
author of “Yogāvatāraṇam: The Translation of
Yoga,” a Sanskrit textbook based on classic yoga
College of Business
texts, from which she created a comprehensive
series of Sanskrit courses for the Oxford Centre Administration
for Hindu Studies. She also taught yoga and
INGRID GREENE
Sanskrit for many years at her yoga shala in her
Clinical Assistant Professor
hometown of NYC, Ashtanga Yoga Upper West Management
Side. You can read more on her website: Ingrid Greene earned her
www.ashtangayogasanskrit.com Bachelor of Civil Engineering
from Villanova University and
LAUREN SMART her M.B.A. in International
Visiting Assistant Professor
Business from The Thunderbird School of Global
English and Journalism
Management. She subsequently earned her M.A. in
Lauren Smart is a visiting
Strategic Communications from Pepperdine
assistant professor of
University.
journalism. She joins the
LMU faculty after teaching
At LMU, Professor Greene teaches Business Ethics
for five years at Southern
and Sustainability and is the newly appointed
Methodist University in Dallas, where she worked
Academic Director for The Master in Global
as an arts writer and critic for the Dallas Morning
Entrepreneurial Management program whose
News. She has also published work in American
partner schools include IQS School of Management in
Theatre magazine, Arts & Culture Texas, D
Barcelona, Spain and FuJen Catholic University in
Magazine, Charleston Post & Courier and Syracuse
Taipei City, Taiwan. In her prior academic
Post Standard. She is the critic in residence for the
experience, she taught Organizational Behavior at
Shreveport Regional Arts Council and has been a
Pepperdine University and Communications at
critic fellow at the Chautauqua Institution and the
Compton College.
O'Neill Theater Center.
Her earlier professional experience as a
GEORGE SARRAF
Communications Consultant/Business Analyst
Visiting Assistant Professor
Economics encompasses work for Citigroup's Technology and
Professor George Sarraf earned his Ph.D. in Global Engineering Group, Credit Suisse,
Economics and Management (finance) from Salesforce.com, The Wonderful Company, and The
Claremont Graduate University and his M.A. in Clark Construction Group. She also initiated the
Political Economy from Sydney University. Prior to entrepreneurial production and distribution of two
teaching, Professor Sarraf has had an extensive yoga DVDs in the international market.
business experience ranging from IT consulting
work to business consulting. CANDICE MARGIOTTA
Clinical Assistant Professor
Accounting
Professor Candice Margiotta
earned her B.S. and M.S. in
Accounting from our very own
Loyola Marymount University.
Professor Margiotta began her accounting career in
public accounting as an auditor for Deloitte &
Touche. She then transitioned into privateLoyola Marymount University NEW FACULTY 2022-2023
accounting where she served as an Assistant Outside of work, Kelly helps women and girls reach
Controller for a growing digital media company. their full potential through AYSO coaching,
She is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the refereeing, and playing soccer. She also serves on
State of California. several non-profit boards.
ANNA PAPAZIAN
Clinical Assistant Professor
Finance College of
Anna Papazian, Clinical
Professor of Finance, leads a Communication and Fine
team that provides Fractional
CFO services to middle-
market companies. Her company, K Buildz
Arts
Consulting, is certified as a woman-owned JANESSA CLARK
business by multiple agencies such as WBENC and Artist in Residence
the State of California. Anna earned her M.B.A. in Dance
Finance from USC, Marshall School of Business. Janessa Clark, a Visiting
She also holds a B.A. in Business Economics from Assistant Professor of Dance, is
UCLA. She is certified in Lean Six Sigma and a BESSIE Award nominated
earned Toyota’s Master Kaizen Coach choreographer, dance
designation. filmmaker, performer, and
installation artist. She holds an M.A. in Performance
KELLY WATSON Practices and Research from the Royal Central School
Clinical Assistant Professor of Speech and Drama in London and a BFA in
Executive MBA Choreography from Arizona State University. Her
Kelly Watson is Managing practice combines dance, video, and language to
Partner of Orange Grove create socially engaged art for stage, screen, and
Consulting and has spent site-specific environments.
more than 20 years as an
accomplished operations Janessa directed the New York-based dance
and organizational development consultant. collective, Janessa Clark/KILTERBOX, from 2001-2012
Kelly’s clients have included Oracle and Toyota, as and nomadthenewcompany, in Stockholm from
well as Skillsoft and Linkage, for whom she has 2012-2018. She has been an artist in residence
designed women’s leadership curriculum. Kelly is through CEC ArtsLink’s Back Apartment Residency in
an adjunct professor at Loyola Marymount St. Petersburg, Russia, Exploring the Metropolis at
University and is co-author of the book, The the Jamaica Arts Center, and at THE VISIONARY in
Orange Line: A Woman’s Guide to Integrating upstate New York. Janessa’s films and live works
Career, Family, and Life. Her upcoming book on have been presented widely over the past 20 years
building inclusive workplaces will be published Fall including at HERE Arts Center, Danspace Project, and
2020. Prior to consulting, Kelly served as Vice Dixon Place in New York, the Barry Art Museum, the
President, Marketing for Telecom New Zealand American Dance Festival, Bates Dance Festival,
USA and has held other senior operational roles. Teatro Victoria (Canary Islands), Vitruvian Thing
Kelly holds a B.A. in Political Science from the (Greece), SDVIG (Russia), and Danscentrum
University of Western Ontario in London, Canada (Sweden). Her video dance project, COMMUNION, a
and an M.B.A. from Loyola Marymount University response to the Covid-19 crisis was nominated for
in Los Angeles. Kelly is a Recreation & Parks the 2021 BESSIE Award for Outstanding Production.
Commissioner for the City of El Segundo, CA.Loyola Marymount University NEW FACULTY 2022-2023
WEI-CHUNG (WAYNE) HUNG
As a dancer, Janessa has been fortunate to Visiting Assistant Professor
collaborate with Tino Sehgal, Gibney Dance, Laura Chemistry and Biochemistry/
Peterson Choreography, and Noemie LaFrance Environmental Science
among others, and she has received grants from Professor Wayne Hung
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Swedish (he/his/him) earned his B.E. in
Arts Council, the Croft Residency, and Harlem Chemical Engineering and B.S.
Stage. Prior to LMU, Janessa was on faculty at the in Geography from National Taiwan University. He
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Civil and
also been a guest artist at New York University's Environmental Engineering from the University of
Summer Dance Festival, the College at Brockport, California, Los Angeles. His research interests lie in
Old Dominion University, Montclair State the intersection of environmental chemistry and
University, and internationally at the University microbiology. Specifically, his doctoral research
College of Dance/DOCH, Balletakademien, and focused on the prevalence and fate of metal(loid)s
Luleå Tekniska Universitetet in Sweden. She is and antibiotic resistance in the environment and
thrilled to be at LMU this fall. their corresponding microbial ecology. Prior to
joining Loyola Marymount University, he was a
postdoctoral scholar at the University of California,
Los Angeles. His postdoctoral projects helped
Seaver College of understand the impacts of urbanization on antibiotic
resistance in surface waters as well as the impacts of
Science and Engineering environmental antibiotic resistance on the human
microbiome. During his postdoctoral training,
LUCIANO ENZO MANFREDI Professor Wayne Hung served as a part-time lecturer
CONSOLE in the Environmental Science program at Loyola
Visiting Assistant Professor
Marymount University where he taught Principles of
Mathematics
Environmental Sustainability. In addition to research
Professor Luciano Enzo
and teaching, he is passionate about pedagogy
Manfredi Console earned his
research to address issues of inclusivity and diversity
double degree, B.S. in Pure
in STEM education.
Mathematics and B.S. in Physics, from Loyola
Marymount University. Later, he received his
DAVID QUAM
Masters of Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics
Clinical Professor
from the University of Cambridge. He published Healthcare Systems Engineering
“Quasinormal Modes of Modified Gravity (MOG) Professor David A. Quam earned
Black Holes" and “Horizon Wavefunction of his MD degree at the University
Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) Black of California, Irvine College of
Holes", and presented his research at various Medicine, his Master of Science
national and international conferences. Upon degree in Physiology at the University of California,
completing his master, he has been a part-time Davis, and his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology
lecturer in the Mathematics departments at from Loyola Marymount University. Prior to his
Loyola Marymount University. return to LMU to join the faculty, he practiced family
medicine and held various executive leadership
positions with Kaiser Permanente in southern
California, including Area Medical Director and
Assistant Executive Medical Director. In those roles,
he was responsible for the healthcare delivery forLoyola Marymount University NEW FACULTY 2022-2023
millions of KP members. Following his retirement, teachers, hold the awesome responsibility to
he and his wife opened a small restaurant in San celebrate, inspire and empower. Our world needs to
Clemente which earned the #13 spot in Yelp’s Top see our student’s vision and hear their stories. Since
100 Places To Eat in the US in 2020. When COVID 2018, Professor Parrish has been a Lecturer at LMU:
hit, Dr. Quam was tapped by the State of School of Film and Television and an Adjunct
California to direct the opening and serve as Professor at USC: School of Cinematic Arts. He
medical director of the Los Angeles Surge received his M.A. in Film Production at The University
Hospital, which served as an overflow COVID of Iowa, production training at Istituto di Stato per la
hospital for the impacted hospitals in the LA area Cinematografia e la Televisione in Rome, and his B.A.
in the early months of the pandemic. At LMU, Dr. from The Evergreen State College with an emphasis
Quam is director of the Healthcare Systems in film production. David is a member of the
Engineering Master’s program which educates International Cinematographers Guild ICG, the
students on a Lean Systems Engineering approach Society of Camera Operators SOC, and the Digital
to decrease fragmentation and improve safety Cinema Society DCS. His credits include FEATURES -
and quality in healthcare. His current interests Beetlejuice, Christmas Vacation, Dodgeball, The
include exploring how systems, Notebook, Balls of Fury TV - Brothers and Sisters, Star
technology, architecture and community influence Trek: Voyager and Enterprise, House M.D. Without a
the equitable and evidence-based delivery Trace, Party of Five COMMERCIALS - Apple, United
of healthcare in the US. He also holds the title of Airlines, Pontiac, Chevrolet, Toyota, Coca-Cola,
unapologetic coffee snob and expert barista. Budweiser, Corona, McDonald's, Revlon, Disneyland
MUSIC VIDEOS - Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie
Nicks, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson, Pat Benatar, Prince,
School of Film and Tina Turner, Danny Elfman, Duran Duran, and
Maroon 5.
Television MATTHEW SHEEHAN
Clinical Assistant Professor
DAVID PARRISH Animation
Clinical Assistant Professor
Matthew B. W. Sheehan (Clinical
Production/ Cinematography
Assistant Professor, Loyola
For over 35 years, David
Marymount University
Parrish has had the good
Department of Animation, School of Film and
fortune to work as a
Television) is a storyteller and creative living in Los
Cinematographer, Camera
Angeles. His educational credentials include an
Operator, and Camera
M.F.A. in Animation from the University of California
Assistant on a wide variety of feature films,
Los Angeles’ School of Theatre, Film, and Television,
television, commercials, and music videos. He has
a B.A. in Animation and Visual Effects from the
shot 16, 35, and 65mm films, including one in 3-D.
University of Southern California’s School of
David was an active participant in the transition to
Cinematic Arts, and an A.A. in Fine Art from Santa
digital cinema cameras. Professor Parrish’s work
Monica College. He was a 2020 and 2021 Matt
has taken him around the world, allowing him to
Groening Production Fellowship in Animation
collaborate with many talented people in front of
recipient, a 2020 Card Walker Motion Picture
and behind his camera. David now brings his
Fellowship recipient, a Grand Prize recipient for the
passion for Cinematography into the classroom.
4th Annual Don Thompson LGBT Film Festival a Santa
David shares LMU’s commitment to a diverse and
Monica College Arts Mentor program alum, a 2020
inclusive filmmaking community. A diversity of
Writer’s Guild Foundation Veterans Writing Project
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