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TELOS Instructor Biographies
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\"Stacey    <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stacey Almgren<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Length of time teaching for TELOS<\/u><\/em> \u2013since Spring 2016
Course(s) taught in TELOS program<\/u><\/em>
Introduction to Drawing
Introduction to Watercolor
Art Workshop
Summer Inspired Drawing
Summer Inspired Watercolor
Plein Air Drawing<\/span>
Plein Air Watercolor<\/span>
Educational background<\/u><\/em>:
BA from Purdue University in Visual Arts
Professional experience:<\/u><\/em>
Stacey Almgren has been the owner for nineteen years of Stacey Lowe Design, Inc., a firm providing graphic design services specializing in original artwork.  Stacey is currently the art director at East Ridge Elementary.
Experience related to course topic(s) if different from Professional experience:
<\/u><\/em>Stacey has been a professional artist exhibiting and selling her pieces for over nineteen years. She has been in galleries and exhibited in the US as well as New Zealand and Singapore. She currently works out of her studio in Woodinville.
Personal interests:
<\/u><\/em>Stacy was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and moved to the Seattle area from New Zealand.  She enjoys spending time with her husband and two children (11 and 13). In her free time, she enjoys yoga, outdoor activities and community involvement.
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\"Robert   <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert (Bob) Barnes<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Length of time teaching for TELOS<\/u><\/em> \u2013 Bob has  taught genealogy classes at Telos for the past several years.
Course(s) taught in TELOS program
<\/u>Exploring Your Family History: Computer-Based Genealogy <\/u><\/em><\/span>
Exploring your Family History
Further Adventures in Genealogy<\/del><\/span>
Introduction to 21st Century Genealogy
<\/span>Exploring your Family History in the 21st Century
Fun with Computer-Based Genealogy<\/strong><\/span><\/span>
Educational background<\/span><\/u><\/span><\/em>
<\/u>M.S. in  Water Resources, U Washington; B.S. in Chemistry, U. Washington; Certificate in Russian, Defense Language Institute West Coast.
Professional experience
<\/u><\/em>Bob has had a successful career in Environmental Science and Water Resource Management.
Experience related to course topic(s) if different from professional experience
<\/u><\/em>He was the Genealogy Research assistant at Bellevue Regional Library, 2007-present and volunteer Librarian, Bellevue Family History Center. He has given genealogical programs\/classes for the EGS (Eastside Genealogical Society), SGS (Seattle, Genealogical Society), Family History Expo and the King County Library System.
Special Achievements and Honors
<\/u><\/em>From 2012 to the present, he has been a member of Board of Directors of the Eastside Genealogical Society (EGS).  From 2007 to the present, he has been VP\/Pres. EGS 2008-2011 and Education Chair (2009-present).
Personal interests<\/u><\/em>
<\/u>Bob enjoys reading, fly-fishing, gardening and duplicate bridge.
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Carla Barnes<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Length of time teaching for TELOS<\/u><\/em> \u2013since Fall 2016
Course(s) taught in TELOS program:
<\/u>Great Decisions
Views of the News<\/span>
<\/u><\/strong>Educational background:<\/u><\/em>
BA Psychology, U of Washington; BA Physical Anthropology, UW; Post Graduate Studies in Forest Soils, UW
Professional experience:
<\/u><\/em>Carla Barnes has had a 30 year career with the City of Seattle in construction management and forest road Engineering.
Experience related to course topic(s) if different from Professional experience:
<\/u><\/em>Carla considers herself a lifelong learner and reads about economics, current events, history and science and many current periodicals. She has also served in executive positions in political organizations. She has been a long time participant in the TELOS current events discussion classes and has enjoyed these classes immensely.
Personal interests
<\/u><\/em>In the past Carla has been a volunteer in the Boy Scouts of America. At this time she is caring for an elderly relative and is an active grandmother of two grandchildren. She enjoys hiking, fishing and anything in the great outdoors.\n
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\"\"   Andrew Baze<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n


Length of time teaching for TELOS<\/u> \u2013 starting Fall 2017
Course(s) taught in TELOS program<\/u>:
Personal Cybersecurity for Beginners<\/span>
<\/span><\/strong><\/em>Educational background:
<\/u> BS in Russian Language and Literature, Excelsior College, 1994
MBA in Information Technology Management, Western Governor\u2019s University, 2015
Cyber Defense Operations Graduate Certificate Program, SANS Technology Institute, 2015 \u2013 Present
Professional experience:
<\/u>In addition to being a Microsoft software and service engineering veteran, Andrew Baze is co-founder and CEO of Cascade InfoSec, a cybersecurity consulting company.  He has over 20 years of experience that spans Electronic Warfare and Military Intelligence, Fraud Investigation, Software Engineering, Risk Management and Cybersecurity. His most recent security evaluations have included online services and infrastructure for Microsoft\u2019s Azure cloud business, as well as coordinating security operations for a $4B hybrid (on-premise and cloud) business operations service provider.
He also currently serves as a Washington State Guard Cybersecurity Advisor to the Washington Military Department supporting defense assessment activity, including training military partners on cybersecurity topics.
Special Achievements and Honors<\/span>:
Andrew has multiple certifications in cybersecurity, project management, and other Information Technology areas.
Personal interests<\/span>:
Andrew is also an author and wrote The Road Home<\/em> and The Day After<\/em> \u2013 a fiction book series that combine adventure with lessons in emergency preparedness.  He also wrote Personal Emergency Communications<\/em>, a non-fiction book that describes communication technologies which work when cell phones and telephones aren\u2019t available.
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\"Ellen<\/a>Ellen Berg<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Length of time teaching for TELOS<\/u> <\/em>\u2013 since 2010
Course(s) taught in TELOS program<\/em>
<\/u>Political Sociology: globalization; consent and dissent; pursuit of happiness; international relations; U.S. policy (foreign and domestic)
Sociology and Literature, using short stories, essays, poetry, plays – even a novel – focusing on: socialization, social stratification, the family, the self, social contexts, the life course, humor, and far flung places.
History of Africa: before the Europeans, after the Europeans, South Africa.
Issues and Innovations About Aging: What Matters in the End
Understanding Race
The Media and the Presidential Election
<\/em><\/span>Social Connections<\/span>
<\/span>Post-election Stock-taking
<\/span>It’s Monday, so it Must be Sociology
Max Weber’s Greatest Hit
Living Well — Dying Well<\/span><\/em>
Democracy in America, Redux
Educational background<\/em>
<\/u>B.A. from UCLA, in English
M.A. and Ph.D. from George Washington University, in Sociology
Professional experience<\/em>
<\/u>Ellen has taught pre-schoolers in Lagos, Nigeria; teens in a mental hospital in Los Angeles; undergraduates at the U. of Maryland. and Vassar; and adults in DC and Seattle intermittently since 1986 – all this despite never having planned to teach!
Other relevant experience<\/em>
<\/u>Since her first job after college, in a TB sanitarium, she has been interested in personal autonomy within constraining institutions (e.g.  nursing homes).  This is reflected in the way she defines sociology in all her classes as the relationship between the individual and society, within history.
Living in Nigeria is relevant to her interest in African history, and years of activism on education are relevant to her political courses – as are her years of participation in the League of Women Voters, locally and nationally.  Participation in a “virtual village for elders” in Seattle is relevant to the course on aging – less obviously, so are years spent studying new urbanism and the Haymount new town project.\n
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\"Bruce   <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Bruce Bigley<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Length of time teaching for TELOS \u2013 <\/u><\/em>for four or five years
Course(s) taught in TELOS program
<\/u><\/em>Love, Sex, and Death:  Great Poems by John Keats
Middlemarch
Tom Jones
Anna Karenina
Cervantes: Don Quixote
George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner
George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
“I am of Ireland”: Great Poems by W. B. Yeats
Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks:  the Decline of a Family
Adaptations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
James Joyce, Part I
James Joyce’s Ulysses Parts 1, 2, 3
Scandalous Plays of Ibsen
Thomas Mann’s Dr. Faustus
Educational background
<\/u>BA in English, U. of Washington, magna cum laude; M. Phil. and PhD, Comparative Literature, Yale University.
Professional experience<\/u>
<\/strong><\/em>Bruce Bigley served as Professor and Chair of English (now Emeritus) at the  University of Montana-Missoula. He also teaches retirees at the Lifetime Learning Center in Seattle.
Personal interests
<\/u><\/em>He was raised in the Puget Sound area and returned after a 34 year teaching career in Montana.  His interests include literature, history, Biblical scholarship, gardening, cuisine, wine, and travel.
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John Bishop<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Length of time teaching for TELOS<\/u><\/em> \u2013starting Spring 2017
Course(s) taught in TELOS program:
<\/u>A British Bobby in Bellevue
A British Bobby and Guests in Bellevue
Brit on the Border
<\/strong>Educational background:
<\/u><\/em> John was educated in the UK.
Professional experience:
<\/u><\/em>John Bishop joined UK Policing (Suffolk Police) in 1966 and remained for over thirty years.  He was assigned to government service in 1975 in relation to computerized command and control computer systems. Qualified as Counter Terrorism Search advisor in 1994.
Experience related to course topic(s) if different from Professional experience
<\/u><\/em>John has two decades of experience hosting conferences in the UK, Europe, Canada and the USA. These vary from Fraud Investigators in the USA to Domestic Violence conferences in the UK and Europe. In conjunction with the CEO of Basildon Women’s Aid and a small team he organises, develops and delivers regular domestic abuse conferences at Fords European Technical Centre at Dunton, near Basildon. From May 2001 to the present he has been invited to host annual conferences of the Pacific Northwest License Tax and Fraud Association at various locations throughout Washington State, and to provide advice and information, assist with conference development and delivery and produce the conference briefing review for the Board and association members.
Special Achievements and Honors
<\/u><\/em>John was awarded the Winston Churchill Fellowship by HM Queen Elizabeth in 1989 at Guildhall, London. He was also awarded the Paul Harris Rotary International Fellowship in 1996.
Personal interests
<\/u><\/em>John is the adopted son of a British Railway supervisor (and local Magistrate) and Canadian born mother. He is an active outdoor individual who enjoys photography, biking, and hiking.  He now lives in Kirkland.  His retirement is dominated by voluntary activity. This includes, but is not limited to becoming a Veteran National Park Ranger and Coach involved in the Trails and Rails program delivering information to Amtrak train passengers between Seattle and Havre, MT.  He is currently writing and researching stories involving real life characters that have contributed to the rich history of the US\/Canadian border.  He is also a founding member of Muscles for Charity \u2013 an internationally successful and award winning voluntary organization. The Muscles USA team members actively supported the ‘Tour de Cure’ Cycle Challenge in the Seattle area for a decade, starting in 2004. In addition to raising awareness and funds for the American Diabetes Association, members of the team have ridden every year and manned Rest Stations, as well as being represented on the Tour Committee. The US Muscles team continues to thrive, providing services and volunteer experience in the Pacific Northwest and a variety of other countries, and never handles any money.
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 \"Sue   <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sue Black<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Length of time teaching for TELOS<\/em> \u2013<\/em><\/strong> since Summer 2013
Course(s) taught in TELOS program
<\/em><\/span>A Feather Boa and Sensible Shoes
Ideas Worth Spreading
Educational Background:
<\/strong><\/span><\/em> BA Sociology, Michigan State University
Professional experience<\/u>
<\/em>Sue has more than forty years in marketing research including quantitative survey design and analysis, focus group facilitation and in-depth qualitative analysis. She has experience conducting research for clients across a variety of public and private industries working in advertising agencies in the Midwest and on both coasts.  In addition she has held executive level posts in full service marketing research firms and consultancies.
Experience related to course topic(s) if different from professional experience<\/u>
<\/strong><\/em>Currently her interests center on the study of human response to the \u201cthird act\u201d or the wisdom years.
Personal interests<\/u><\/em>
<\/u>At various times, her interests have included outdoor sports (as proof – double black eyes from an adventure in white water kayaking), creative pursuits (e.g. studying the impacts of color on attitudes) and studies into alternative spirituality (reading animal cards from North American Indian beliefs). Since her youth she has enjoyed observing and writing about the patterns that she sees in the interactions we have with each other as well as how we meet the challenges that life produces.<\/p>\n

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\"Jerry<\/p>\n

Jerry Bunce<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Length of time teaching for TELOS<\/u><\/em> \u2013since Spring 2017
Course(s) taught in TELOS program:
<\/strong><\/u><\/em>Views of the News (with Steve Gersman)
Educational background:
<\/u><\/em>Gonzaga University, Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership, 2007; University of Windsor, Bachelor of Science, 1969.
<\/strong>Professional experience:
<\/u><\/em>Jerry Bunce retired from The Boeing Company after 33 years of service in information technology including software development, maintenance and software engineering. His software was used to manufacture every Boeing commercial airplane for 25 years.  He was the Information Technology representative to the Boeing Higher Education Integration Board. He also administered the Summer Intern and the Technical Excellence programs for Boeing Information Technology.
Jerry has also been a member of adjunct faculty at Bellevue College in the Student Programs and Career Center departments. Jerry taught three Leadership courses, worked with the Bellevue College Leadership Institute and taught the Resume & Interviewing Strategies class. He is part of the team that designs and delivers the BC Camp Casey four-day Leadership Retreat for 100 plus students each June.
Special Achievements and Honors
<\/u><\/em>Jerry was a United Way Loaned Executive in 1991. 
Personal interests
<\/u><\/em>His purpose in life is to have fun, to have loving relationships with his family, to grow, to work with and lead teams of people to achieve excellence, and to help other people.  He has volunteered with Special Olympics since 1984.
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\"Kristi<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kristine Busch<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Length of time teaching for TELOS \u2013 <\/u><\/em>since 2010
Course(s) taught in TELOS program
<\/u><\/em>ANCIENT HISTORY
Ancient History (Sumerian and Egyptian)- People of the Rivers
A Swift Survey of Ancient History and Mythology
<\/span>A Swift Survey of Early Medieval History
A Swift Survey of High Medieval History
Greek History- the Golden Mean
Roman History- the Power and the Glory
A Swift Survey of Greek History and Mythology<\/span>
MEDIEVAL HISTORY
Early Medieval History- Shards of Light
High Medieval History- Gothic Glories
Late Medieval History 3- the Phoenix Rising<\/span>
AMERICAN HISTORY
U.S. 1: 1500-1650- Land of Raven, Coyote, and Corn Maiden
U.S. 2: 1750-1790- The Passionate Idea
U.S. 3: 1787- The Original Philadelphia Story
U.S. 4: 1800-1850- the Growing Pains of an Empire
U.S. 5: 1860-1898- Country in Crisis
U.S. 6: 1900-1920\u2019s- the Moderns
U.S. 7: 1930-1960\u2019s- the American Century
A Swift Survey of American History I, 2
CHINESE HISTORY
A Swift Survey of Ancient Chinese History: 1600 BCE to 1500 CE
A Swift Survey of Modern Chinese History
OTHER
History of Philosophy- From Socrates to Sartre<\/span>
History of the Early Cinema- International Silents from the 1920\u2019s
Mythology- the Caravan (midlife and elder tales)
Educational background
<\/u><\/em>B.A. Univ. Calif. Davis, M.A. George Washington U.
Professional experience
<\/u><\/em>Instructor Busch has worked for several different museums and the Natl. Archives from 1975 to 1980. She taught Kindergarten from 1981 to 2000 and taught History and Humanities at Seattle Waldorf High School from 2001 to 2008 and currently teaches in several continuous learning programs.
Personal interests
<\/u><\/em>She has been a storyteller in both performance and therapeutic settings, favoring medieval epics complete with accompanying musicians. She\u2019s also an ardent gardener, raised three children, and will play mah jongg whenever there\u2019s a spare moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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