Representatives

The Graduate School SUN representatives for 2011-2012 are two representatives from the counseling psychology disciplines, Joyann Song and Heather Garner, and two representatives from the education disciplines, Avery Marvin and Aukeem Ballard.

 

Joyann Song is a second year MCFT student.  She enjoys spending time with her husband and son, playing tennis, and listening to people talk about their lives.    

 

                  

                     

 

 

Heather Garner spent the past six years of her life in San Diego, CA, but originally hails from the Bay Area.  She is a first year student in the Professional Mental Health Counseling program.  Heather can’t resist dancing to the sweet sound of soul music, hula-hooping when the time is right, and collecting lichen samples around campus.  She also enjoys bicycling, embroidery, poetry, zines, cafés, and the color mustard.  

 

                                   

Avery Marin grew up outside New York City and moved to Portland for the Master’s in Education Program at Lewis & Clark. She is pursuing an endorsement in Integrated Science and is currently student teaching in an 8^th grade science class. Avery is a natural Portlander as she loves homemade beer, foodcarts, the outdoors and remaining a tad quirky herself. She has an adventurous and curious personality that has taken her to many faraway places including Australia and Nepal. In Nepal she had the unique opportunity to volunteer at an orphanage outside Kathmandu and trek amongst the towering Himalayas.

                                     

Aukeem Ballard is a Tacoma, WA native who recently graduated from Lewis & Clark College with a BA in Communication and a Minor in English.  He currently attends Lewis & Clark Graduate School in the Middle Level/ High School Social Studies M.A.T. program.  He student teaches at Lane Middle School in the Portland Public School district.  Aukeem spends some of his time helping manage and facilitate the non profit mentorship program DUO (Developing & Understanding Opportunities), which pairs Portland inner-city youth with Lewis & Clark College students.  He also enjoys cooking, eating, slam poetry/spoken word, running, singing, playing music, dancing, and hanging out with friends.