About the Authors

Yvonne M. Smith LCSW

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Yvonne M. Smith LCSW holds a Masters in Social Work from Portland State University. She is full-time faculty in Human Services and Gerontology at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, Oregon. She specializes in working with older adults as well as therapeutic techniques with adults of all ages. She gets great enjoyment out of teaching and traveling.

Sally Guyer

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Sally Guyer teaches at Portland Community College and comes to the field with over 30 years of experience working with children, youth, and families in a variety of settings from residential treatment to Head Start to having her own consulting and training firm. In addition to teaching at PCC, Sally is the Clinical Director for an adoption agency and regularly presents at conferences. Sally is a first-generation college graduate, and holds an MSW from Portland State and a BS in Psychology from Western Oregon University. She has expertise in Attachment Theory and Development, Brain Development, Atypical Development, Clinical Supervision, Program Design, Adoption, Child Welfare, and Foster Care, just to name a few. Being outdoors (but not camping) feeds Sally’s soul, and she enjoys hiking, watching the Blazers and the OSU Beavers, making jewelry, going to concerts and listening to music, and spending time with friends and family to relax.

Ivan Mancinelli-Franconi

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Ivan Mancinelli-Franconi, Ph.D, is a psychologist and university and college professor, editor, author and coauthor of academic works as well as translator of English to Spanish literary works. He was born in Chile into an Italian-German family who originally came to the United States to further their educational pursuits. His varied work experience ranges from evaluating federally funded educational programs; resettling refugees from Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Cuba; being a Department of Justice linguist; and working as a Mental Health Professional in private practice. His life’s focus has centered on assisting human interactions with culturally sensitive activities and making education enriching, affordable, enjoyable and yet able to meet rigorous academic standards. He lives in Vancouver, Wash., where he spends his time writing, and playing the harp and other Asian string instruments, as well as restoring large pieces of African art to ensure their cultural legacy continues to enrich people’s lives.

Elizabeth B. Pearce

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Elizabeth aka Liz (she/her) is a faculty member who teaches Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) classes at Linn-Benton Community College (LBCC). She has served as Department Chair, Faculty Fellow in Technology and Teaching, and as the Difference, Power, and Oppression Faculty Lead. Previously she directed the Family Resource Center, a full-time child care and parent cooperative for LBCC student and staff families.

Her passion is creating opportunities and resources for transformative learning through open pedagogy in the community college classroom. She has presented locally, regionally, and nationally on this topic. She also leads and mentors faculty in equity-based teaching, active learning, technology use, and open pedagogy.

Liz earned a Bachelor of Arts in Child Study at Tufts University and a Master of Education degree in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has completed post-graduate coursework in child/family development, life course theory, educational policy, and sociology at Wheelock College (now Boston University) and Oregon State University. She is the author of Contemporary Families: An Equity Lens and Introduction to Human Services and is a contributor to Human Services Practicum: An Equity Lens, all published by Open Oregon Educational Resources.

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