Milestones

Ali Muller, MA and PhD in STEM Education 2025, is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Rowan University.  

Heather Macias, Education Ph.D. 2019, California State University, Long Beach / Faculty / Associate Professor & Dual Language Development Graduate Program Coordinator. 

Hilary Dwyer, Ph.D. in Teaching and Learning, specializing in Math Education with an interdisciplinary emphasis in Feminist Studies 2014, is now a Principal User Researcher at Microsoft. 
 

Katy Nilsen, Ph.D. Science Education 2013, is now a Senior Research Associate at WestEd. 

Krista Lucas, Ph.D. in Education 2021, is now an Assistant Professor of Teaching of Biology at Pepperdine University. 
 

Erika Luis Sanchez, Clinical Emphasis 2024, is now a Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA TIES for Families, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. 

Jazzmyn Ward, CCSP 2024, is now a Staff Psychologist at CSUN

Tim Dewar, Education, Language, Literacy, and Composition 2008, is now Teaching Professor, GGSE at UCSB

Natalie Larez, CCSP 2024, is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatric & Child/Adolescent Psychologist, Banner University Medical Center - Tucson, AZ
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Cancer Center, and a Dept of Psychiatry, Behavioral Health Pavilion (General outpatient). 

Rhea Wagle, CCSP 2021, is currently a Private Practice, Child & Adolescent Psychologist

Ashley Mayworm, CCSP 2016, is the Associate Professor of School Psychology at Loyola University Chicago. 

Rachel Stein, CCSP 2016, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Denver in the School Psychology program.

Cory Molzahn, 2025 CCSP, is a school psychologist at Cleveland Elementary and Dos Pueblos High School.

David Wakefield (Education, Ph.D. ’99) is a professor and department chair at California State University, Northridge, and the founding professor of CSUN’s Department of Child and Adolescent Development. He is currently in his 25th year leading the program.

Eui Kyung Kim, 2016 CCSP, is an assistant professor at UC Riverside.

Grace Peterson, 2025 CCSP, is a school psychologist for the Santa Maria Bonita School District in Santa Maria, California. She serves transitional kindergarten through sixth-grade students. 

Jacquie Brown, 2014 CCSP,  is an associate professor at the University of Montana in the School Psychology PhD and SSP programs. She recently co-wrote a grief group curriculum book for adolescents, which will be published by Oxford University Press. 

Jenna Ouye, 2013 CCSP, is a licensed psychologist and supervisor at Summit Center.

Matthew Ruderman, 2014 CCSP, is the research director at UCLA TIES for Families.

Shelley Hart, 2011 CCSP, is a professor and chair, of the Department of Child Development at California State University, Chico.