| Name | Biography |
|---|---|
| Caitlin Amy | |
| Emy Amy | Emy Amy enriches her students with history, shared stories and life experiences in her hands-on classes. She practices a self-sufficient and sustainable life style and passes along the how-to-skills to anyone who wants to have fun while learning. Her teaching stems from how to provide high quality and flavor while being resourceful and practicing economics. While in Golden, Colorado, Emy ran a living history farm that serviced school kids from all over the state. She now lives in Montana and still practices the "living history motto." |
| Jack Andenoro | |
| Julie Arnold | |
| Red Eagle Aviation | Red Eagle Aviation has been soaring above Western Montana for over 40 years. We’re your one-stop shop for all things aviation, from exhilarating adventures to expert instruction. Our friendly and professional staff is passionate about aviation and committed to exceeding your expectations. |
| Cathy Barbouletos | Cathy Barbouletos has a Masters in Forestry and Hydrology. She was the Forest Supervisor for the Flathead National Forest from 1998-2010. Cathy has been teaching bridge through FVCC's Continuing Education department for five years. |
| Randy Bishop | |
| Shane Braverman | |
| Griffin Browne | Griffin Browne lives and works in the Flathead Valley as principal cellist and personnel manager in the Glacier Symphony, private cello instructor, and free-lance musician. Dr. Browne has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Montana, Tennessee, and Mississippi. He received his Doctoral (2013) and Master's (2008) degrees in cello performance from the University of Memphis, and his Bachelor of Music (2006) degree from Stetson University. When not engaged in musical endeavors, he enjoys spending time with his wife and three children. |
| Donna Bryant | |
| Carol Buchanan | Instructor Carol Buchanan is an award-winning author of four historical novels about the Vigilantes, a series she has dubbed the "Vigilante Quartet." With a Ph.D. in English Literature and History, she has been called "an historian with a novelist's ear capable of rendering the individual voices of character into the orchestral narrative of a sweeping story." Craig Johnson, Creator of the Longmire Series. |
| Don Bumgarner | Don Bumgarner has a B.A. in mathematics and Physical Sciences, 1967 LaVerne University, California and M.A. Secondary counseling, 1974 UNLV, Las Vegas; Secondary education certification 1969, State of California, Secondary education certification 1970, State of Nevada; 1970-1996, teaching secondary math, chemistry, physics CCSD Las Vegas, Nevada. He was an adjunct faculty memberfor CC of Southern Nevada from 1981-2004 teaching credit courses in astronomy and operating the planetarium facility. He also taught astronomy credit courses at Nellis Air Force Base and several correctional facilities in southern Nevada. Don taught astromomy for FVCC's Continuing Education Department from 2009-2013 and has returned to teaching at FVCC. |
| Benj Burke | |
| Cindy Carpenter | Cindy Carpenter holds the two top Human Resource certifications - the SPHR (Senior Professional Human Resources) and SHRM-SCP (Society of Human Resource Management - Senior Certified Professional). With a degree in Business Education from the University of Montana, she has over 25 years of training experience primarily focused on human resource and people topics. To compliment her training background, she has been a practicing Human Resource professional in the Banking and Insurance industries as well as owning her own business, Carpenter Business Resources, LLC. Cindy's business model allows her to customize her resources to meet a business owner's needs, whether it be onsite or virtual, provide training, employee benefits and services, problem resolution or simply as a needed resource. Cindy's background includes work experiences beyond Human Resources, supporting other family business ventures. As a business owner and as an HR professional, she understands the challenges faced by companies regardless of size or industry Cindy is an adjunct faculty member at Flathead Valley Community College through the Continuing Education Center. She is a member of the Flathead Valley Chapter of SHRM, having served on the Board in a variety of positions over the past 15 years. Cindy is also a member of the National Society of Human Resource Management. |
| Leo Chen | Leo Chen, Violinist Fang-Liu Chen holds the Bachelor of Psychology from Fu-Jen Catholic University, Master of Music degrees from Manhattan School of Music where he was a student of Lucie Robert. Mr. Chen is a founding member of the Ars Trio Taipei, he played over 360 concerts with the trio, gave performances in Taiwan, United States, Canada, Costa Rica and Israel. |
| Ashleigh Clark | |
| Marita Combs | |
| Kim Crawford | Kim has 13 years in resort operations and human resources at Walt Disney World, ESL instructor, substitute teacher, neurofeedback program coordinator at a non-profit supporting veterans. Her teaching and experience include leadership training and development at Walt Disney World and also the Disney University where classes were taught onchange and collaboration. She lived 10 years in Asia and has personal experience in change and transition. She worked with a colleague to develop a course on neuroplasticity and the gut-brain connection to stress and anxiety. She currently works as a health and wellness coach helping people with career change to other transitions. |
| Terry Crooks | Terry has been teaching dog obedience classes for over twenty years. Terry is a volunteer member of David Thompson Search and Rescue and has been involved with the Search and Rescue Team for twenty five years. He is the K-9 unit leader and has raised and trained several Search and Rescue dogs. Terry has travelled nationwide giving Search and Rescue dog training as well as evaluating and certifying K9 teams for search and rescue. |
| Nicole Cutsforth | |
| Lynne Dean | Presenter, Lynne Dean, Forensic Scientist, retired from King County Sheriff's Office, Seattle, Washington after over 35 years on the job. She was a Latent Fingerprint Examiner in the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS). She has responded to over 1,000 crime scenes to collect evidence and one of the first homicide scenes to assist with was the Green River Killer. Over 1 million fingerprint comparisons she has analyzed/worked. Lynne has trained examiners, police officers, and detectives for processing evidence and has presented her techniques at forensic conferences, students and community events. She has a B.A. degree in Criminal Justice from Washington State University, an A.A. in Police Science from Green River College, Auburn, Washington and received training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Currently she is an adjunct instructor for Green River College in Auburn, Washington. |
| Diane Denney | Diane worked for the Kalispell School District for 28 years as an educator, with three of those years as a district Math coach. Also three years as a Student-Teacher College advisor/trainer through WGU (Western Governors University). |
| Raymond Dickinson | Raymond Dickinson is an established wine professional and owner of Brix Bottleshop. Twenty seven years in the industry, his experience includes sales, product management, regional management and education. |
| Maggie Doherty | |
| Kathleen Dunnehoff | Kathy Dunnehoff is a national bestselling and Zola award winning novelist and screenwriter. A "hybrid" author, she's both independently published through her business, Blue House Publishing, and traditionally published. She's taught writing and creativity courses at FVCC for 30 years and presents writing workshops for both creative writers and those wishing to become more effective in their daily business communication. |
| Katie Eberhardy | |
| Staff Flathead City-County Health | |
| Dee (Deborah) Fleming | About the instructor....Dee Fleming is a music educator, vocalist, pianist and guitarist. An award winning composer and songwriter, she has produced six albums of music as a performing and recording artist, and currently performs region-wide. She taught Middle and High School music for public schools in Montana and Arizona for 28 years before retiring in 2014. She taught credit and non-credit classes at University of Montana-Western in Dillon for 10 years and has been teaching at FVCC's Continuing Education department for seven years. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Montana State University and is currently completing a Master's Degree from Grand Canyon University. |
| Dana Fraley | Dana Fraley is a retired elementary teacher and loves to teach art. Her passion is watercolor painting; she took her first watercolor class at FVCC from Karen Leigh. Dana received a BA in Elementary Education from the University of Montana. |
| Jennifer Gardner | Jennifer Gardner is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt with over 15 years of experience administering Lean and/or Six Sigma projects across the industries such as consulting, technology, and healthcare. Graduating from the University of Texas with a MS in Industrial Management Technology and from the University of Texas Health with an MS in Biomedical Informatics, she has worked at Microsoft for the last 2 years as the Senior Director of Tech Consulting. |
| Katie Halling | Katie has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in American Sign Language from the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been an intern at Communication Services for the Deaf and also an intern at the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services in St. Paul. She has been teaching ASL classes at FVCC since 2007. |
| Carla Hannaford | Dr. Carla Hannaford is a biologist, author, educator, and kinesiologist with more than forty years teaching experience including high school and over twenty years as a biology professor. She also was a counselor for elementary and intermediate school children with learning difficulties and fifteen years as an international consultant to 50 countries. Carla has been the keynote presenter for over 200 conferences worldwide, taught over 1,000 workshops and been quoted in over 1,000 books and journal articles on the importance of movement, music and art for life-long learning and brain function. She is the author of four books. |
| Shannon Hanson | Shannon Hanson has been playing with computers since the early eighties. A lot has changed - In the early days much of his computer time was spent programming his TRS-80 CoCo computer to play Judas Priest songs. Since then, Shannon has followed and tried to stay ahead of the rapid changes in technology. Shannon still enjoys programming but has moved on from guitar solos. He wrote his first invoice in 1993, transforming himself from Computer Junky to Professional Computer Junky - As the owner/operator of The Computer Doctor, he repairs computers, consults on all sorts of technology matters, facilitates seminars on the importance of Social Media, and teaches technology classes at FVCC. |
| Jon Hatch | Jon Hatch is an Irish/American dual citizen who works as an educator, writer, and post-conflict expert. He received his Masters and Doctorate from Trinity College Dublin and has 15 years' experience living and working in Ireland developing education programs as part of the peace process after the conflict in Northern Ireland. He divides his time between the US and Ireland. |
| Susie Hill | Susie Hill has worked for 25 years as an American Sign Language interpreter for the deaf in several states. |
| Ellen Horowitz | An outdoor educator whose career spans more than four decades, Ellen Horowitz teaches preschoolers to adults about the wildflowers and wildlife of the Rocky Mountains. She is a writer, adjunct botany professor at Flathead Valley Community College and a long-time natural history instructor with the Glacier Institute and Road Scholar/Elderhostel. As a Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide, she connects people and nature for health and wellbeing. Her work has been recognized with numerous honors including Montana Audubon's Educator of the Year Award, and magazine writing awards from Outdoors Writers Association of America and National Wildlife Federation. She is author of the award-winning children's book, What I Saw in Glacier. |
| Bill Hunger | Bill Hunger is a Certified Massage Therapist and Certified Reflexologist with more than 50 years of experience. He has been teaching Basic Massage at FVCC for over thirty years. |
| Sheena Istre | |
| Emily Jense | Emily has been practicing Pilates since 2017 and finished teacher training through Balanced Body in July 2022. Her dedication to the practice evolved as she felt her body respond with increased strength and stability and decreased pain and injury. Emily looks forward to introducing the magic of Pilates to new clients who are ready to transform their bodies through mindful movement. |
| Lisa Jones | Lisa Jones has lived in Montana for over three decades working in multiple tourism, recreation and conservation communication roles. She owned her own PR company for 20 years providing services in public relations, brand awareness, marketing strategy, event management, crisis communications, partner relationship management, strategic planning, sustainable tourism and stewardship outreach. Along with over 20 years teaching workforce training at FVCC, Jones offers extensive knowledge, unique insight and consistent enthusiasm for both enhancing the customer service experience and supporting the service provider. |
| Jill Kanewischer | |
| Heidi Keaster-Blaize | Heidi is a native Montanan. She is a student, a teacher, a baker and a Mom. Heidi is currently completing her master's degree in education, and she works as a baker for Montana Coffee Traders. When she is not working or studying, she is devoted to her family including her three young children. She has wrangled tortoises in the Galapagos Islands, taught sea turtle ecology in Costa Rica, and studied Argentine literature and culture in Argentina. She loves speaking and reading in Spanish. |
| Hannah Kimmel | |
| Gerri King | Gerri King, Ph.D., social psychologist and organizational consultant, works with educational, healthcare, corporate, industrial, non-profit, and governmental clients throughout the US and abroad. Gerri - also a facilitator and keynote speaker - presents at numerous conferences and seminars throughout the year. Dr. King's expertise includes a wide range of topics such as supervisory skills, team building, resolving conflicts and effective communication, motivating workforces, the dynamics of change, creating blame-free and gossip-free work environments, facilitating the multi-generational workforce, why people avoid success, and the changing role of leadership. Dr. King facilitates staff and executive retreats, conflict resolution efforts, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning sessions, and mission & vision development. She is a founding partner and President of the consulting and counseling firm Human Dynamics Associates, Inc. of Concord NH and the author of The Duh! Book of Management and Supervision: Dispelling Common Leadership Myths. www.gerriking.com. |
| Misty Koyuncu | Misty Koyuncu received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Instruction with a concentration in flute and vocal performance from Southern Oregon University. Misty began her interest in music in her early childhood by teaching herself keyboard, and continued her interest in music by private lessons, and classes throughout her childhood and into her undergrad degree. She has traveled through Europe to expand her musical ear, and she currently teaches private lessons in the Flathead Valley while working as the Student Union Coordinator at FVCC. |
| Brien Kreps | Brien Kreps is a local CPA who spent 20 years working in private businesses before becoming a CPA. He has spent the last 18 years as a CPA helping small businesses improve their profitability. |
| Crystal MacInnes | |
| Allison McCarthy | Allison McCarthy brings to her instruction a powerful combination of high energy and practical tools, with overwhelmingly rave reviews, both through her business and as an adjunct faculty instructor for the FVCC Continuing Education Center. Allison began her career working for several large corporations in a variety of leadership positions. Since 1995, she has been running her own Flathead Valley management and computer training business, having effectively instructed thousands of people on technical computer, interpersonal and management skills. |
| Nicholas (Nick) Merriman | Nick Merriman has operated a chainsaw professionally for over 25 years. During his 20 years of fire service he was a hazard tree faller, certifier and saw instructor. He currently a International Society of Arboriculture certified arborist is a crew foreman for Trees for Life MT Inc. He has taught the following courses: NWCG S-212, DNRC Advanced Faller, FVCC Chainsaw/Crosscut Saw, several basic saw classes for the Montana Conservation Corps, as well as certifying new and experienced fallers. He has trained between 500-1000 students in all levels of chainsaw operation, as well as taught multiple safety, fire and arborist specific continuing educational classes. Additional training/experience/awards: M-410 Facilitative Instructor, a 40 hour adult education course, and Tree Care Industry Association’s Certified Tree Safety Professional. |
| Dave Micone | |
| Linda Miller | Linda Miller is a registered Yoga teach with 200+hours. She has taught gentle, therapeutic Hatha yoga, including chair yoga since 2010. She has also worked as an Occupational Therapist with rehabilitation patients for 35 years. |
| Steven Miller | Steve has 35 years of teaching and professional fashion illustration experience. He is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor at The School of Art Institute of Chicago and has been teaching there since 1991. Primarily working for major retailers such as Nordstrom, Bullocks, and Dillard's department store, his work has been represented by various galleries and is in numerous private and corporate collections. He has maintained a fashion studio in Chicago working for designers, retailers and manufacturers. Steve works in all major mediums and has been published by Laurence King Publishing, London UK. His book "Drawing Fashion Accessories" is available in six languages, English, French, Spanish, Polish, Korean, and Traditional Chinese. |
| Wai Mizutani | A child prodigy in his homeland China, renowned violinist Wai Mizutani has performed worldwide with distinguished orchestras, at famed venues and shared the stage with a myriad of luminaries. He has played with the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra and symphony orchestras throughout Europe and Asia. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and the Hollywood Bowl. He’s shared the stage with Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli, Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney and Elton John, and performed in front of Queen Elizabeth and several sitting presidents. In his lifetime he has garnered numerous prestigious music awards. |
| Chany Ockert | Chany Ockert, CFRE, combines deep fundraising expertise with an engaging presentation that allows the attendees to “always walk away richer because of her shared information.” Nationally, she specializes in adapting the fundraising best practices and lessons across various sub-sectors of nonprofits. She hosts the weekly 5-minute podcast, Reflections on Generosity. She has presented for all sizes of nonprofits from all-volunteer organizations to NonprofitPRO and Meta's Social Impact Partnerships. As a consequence of working with missions ranging from human services to conservation to arts and culture to animals, she brings the best fund development ideas to each presentation. Attendees walk away with actionable ideas to improve their fund development practices and grow generosity among donors. |
| Dawn Olin | |
| Brian Phillips | |
| Johanna Pickel | |
| J. Elise Poston | |
| Kathy Prim | Kathy is a certified Square Foot Gardening instructor and has taught the SFG method for the last 20+ years. She turns her sewing room into a sowing room each spring in order to bring Seed Starting: Growing for Your Garden to FVCC Continuing Education. Her goal is to bring skills to her students that will provide food for the family in the longrun with organic and frugal gardening concepts. |
| Phil Quigley | Phil Quigley honed his talent development, coaching, and cross cultural communications skills in the emerging markets of Hong Kong, Korea, China, Singapore, Australia, Indonesia, Taiwan and India, where he spent most of his 14 year career with Yahoo Phil cut his entrepreneurial teeth as Vice President Sales for Axlon, a startup toy venture comprised of veteran Atari engineers and marketers. At the expense of heavily entrenched competitors, he drove sales to the 10 million dollar level before helping to sell the company to Hasbro. In 2011 Phil joined Talentron, a Scott's Valley, California talent development consultancy focusing on building leadership capabilities of frontline managers, using performance support apps to reinforce key learning points and boost productivity. |
| Patty Rambo | |
| David Reese | |
| Dane Regan | Dane Regan manages the FVCC Campus Farm and has several years of vegetable growing experience in the Flathead Valley. He is a young and enthusiastic grower with a passion for food, cooking, and sustainable systems. |
| Ben Reppond | Ben Reppond has spent over 40 years in the financial industry services. He now owns his own Registered Investment Advisory firm. After he sold his former company, he spent 15,000 hours of independent research to learn how to cautiously invest during retirement. He shares his methods that led to a more consistent and risk-averse investing experience. He has years of experience of advising people on how to maximize Social Security benefits - for themselves and their spouses. |
| Tom Reynolds | After graduating from the United States Military Academy at West Point, I served 22 years in the military mostly as an Engineering Test Pilot with the military and as a Research Test Pilot with NASA. Following retirement from the military, I taught Computer Application courses at FVCC, worked in the IT department and managed the GIS Department for Flathead County, and eventually worked in the IT department for Plum Creek. I've always loved dance and after several years of Ballroom, Polka, Lindy Hop, and Latin, my dance partner and I started teaching and managing an Argentine Tango group. |
| Jaclyn Rubino | |
| Joan Schmidt | Joan has been practicing yoga for many years. A retired Mental Health Clinician and educator,she began teaching yoga in 2018 and recently became certified in Integrative Yoga Therapy. She is excited to bring Yoga Therapeutics to FVCC and passionate about providing others with the opportunity to gain self-awareness and ease yoga. |
| Jan Shanahan | Jan Shanahan owns Wild Sky Industries, which serves the business needs of both technical companies and artists who are focused on developing their art business. She served as General Manager /Senior Marketing Manager for Microsoft Corporation for more than a decade. Prior to Microsoft, Jan's education at UCLA and Stanford readied her for work in energy research and the IT industry in the Bay Area for 20+ years. This experience was very helpful in establishing licensing and marketing arrangements for new products-both art-focused and computer applications-that allow her to assist people in doing the same. Jan lends entrepreneurial expertise in business and organizational development, project management, and publishing to courses focused on business creation or improvement. As an artist, she works mostly with fibers/textiles-having done work for Sunset Magazine, Family Circle, and other companies that offer creative kits for sale. Being home in her native Montana, Jan appreciates the opportunity to coach artists as they begin or grow their business career. She is pleased to offer both creative workshops and business workshops where she meets so many new friends and colleagues! |
| Peter Strasser | Peter Strasser currently works as a consultant on a U.S. State Department anti-corruption project in Mongolia. Prior to that he was the Presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed U.S. Attorney in New Orleans. In that capacity, he served on the U.S. Attorney General's Advisory Sub-committees on Cyber Crime and Terrorism/National Security. Other professional experience includes being a partner in New Orleans' oldest law firm, specializing in corporate compliance and criminal litigation. He spent 12 years as a DOJ Legal Attaché, serving in U.S. Embassies in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia, and 15 years as a federal prosecutor. Among his many jury trial convictions was that of former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards on corruption and racketeering charges. Peter also was an adjunct professor at Tulane Law School and has published law review articles on comparative criminal law and justice. He grew up and studied in Virginia and Austria, served as a U.S. Navy officer, is fluent in German, and has traveled to over 75 countries. |
| Alan Styles | |
| Chris Tempel | |
| Rebecca Tseng | Music had always been a meaningful part of Rebecca’s young adulthood and participated in every part of her high school music program. After stepping away to develop a career as a Medical Laboratory Scientist, she kindled her passion for music. Rebecca actively participates and performs in the FVCC community orchestra as well as founding and performing in the quartet RMJ². She enjoys both learning and sharing her love of science and music to students of all ages. |
| Racheal Vargas | Racheal Vargas, is the co-owner of Montana K9 Safety. She has over 25 years of experience in Healthcare and has been an active instructor of various emergency and healthcare programs for the past 15 years. She is a current Instructor teaching programs under American Heart Association and Emergency Care and Safety Institute. |
| Susan Wagner | Susan Wagner is currently an art educator at Heritage Academy teaching 6th through 12th graders. She loves teaching and encouraging people of all ages to express themselves creatively through various art mediums. She got her degree from the University of Montana in Education with a focus on Clothing and Textile Design and a minor in Art. She personally enjoys working with watercolor, batik, oils, acrylics, and pine needle basketry. |
| Amelia Ward | Amelia is a full time employee at FVCC in our IT Department coming from a 20 years career in the Air Force. She has over 30 years' experience in Information Systems and Technology and brings many practical life-experiences to her classes. |
| Ruth Wrightsman | Dr. Ruth Wrightsman - Bio-Rad Explorer Fellow and former FVCC professor of biology and biotechnology. |
| Yoshimi Yamamoto-Derks | Yoshimi Yamamoto-Derks was born, raised, and lived in Japan until 2014. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Bunkyo University in Japan and a certification of Japanese Language Teacher in Japan. She has taught English for 30 years and Japanese for 9 years as a private tutor, an instructor at schools in Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan as well as to Korean businessmen at one of Korea's top companies. She has taught students from elementary, junior and high school age as well as adults. She has also introduced traditional Japanese cuisine classes at FVCC. She has a certification of Flower Essence Counselor & Therapist from International Flower Essence College in Japan as well as certifications from several well-known flower essence brands from all over the world. |
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