Life Work Balances

Hello Everyone! Its another Wednesday morning, so that means another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES is here for your enjoyment! Today I had the chance to sit down with Viktor Kerney, Assistant Director for Student Leadership and Development at The University of Southern California. Viktor was originally scheduled to be Episode 2 of LIFE WORK […]

Hi Everyone! Its Wednesday morning, and that means that its time for another LIFE WORK BALANCES episode! Today I sat down with Patty Witkowsky, who is the Interim Director of Student Development at Colorado State University-Pueblo, and also the Chair of the Commission for Wellness with ACPA! We actually got connected through Meredith Mickaliger, guest […]

Hi Everyone! Its Wednesday, which means it is time for another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had the pleasure of interviewing Phillip Cockrell, who I and most people that know him call Flapp, who is the Director of Student Life at Mississippi University for Women. Flapp and I have known each other for […]

Hi everyone! Its Wednesday, which means another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Welcome back! Today I had a great conversation with Heidi Levine. In addition to being the Dean of Students at Cornell College, Heidi is also currently the Past President of ACPA. It was also a nice surprise to find that Heidi was the […]

Hi Everyone! Welcome to the final OUT AND PROUD WEEK Episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today, I had a great conversation with Shaun Travers. Shaun is a Campus Diversity Officer and Director of the LGBT Resource Center at UC San Diego, and is also my boss! Shaun and I had a great conversation about reading, […]

Hi Everyone, welcome back to LIFE WORK BALANCES for another OUT & PROUD WEEK Bonus Episode! Today I had a great conversation with Kara Devaney, PhD Student at Loyal University Chicago. It was really fun to catch up with Kara, since we hadn’t had much time to catch up since she moved to Chicago from […]

Hi Everyone! Welcome to another OUT AND PROUD WEEK Episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I sat down with Rey Guerrero, Resident Dean of Eleanor Roosevelt College at UC San Diego. I have known Rey for a few years now, and it was really great to sit down with him and learn even more about […]

Hi Everyone! Welcome to another special OUT & PROUD WEEK episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Today I had a great conversation with Tony Sclafani! Tony is an Assessment and Research Analyst in the Student Testing Assessment and Research office at San Diego State University. Tony and I worked together for a long time, and we […]

Hi Everyone! Welcome to a special week long set of episodes on LIFE WORK BALANCES. This week at UC San Diego, we are celebrating Out & Proud Week, and so I wanted to take this week and highlight a few stories of LGBT Identified Student Affairs Professionals. There will be a new episode posted every […]

Hi Everyone! It is another Wednesday, which means a new episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! Here is an interview that I did with Deven Rembert, who is the Coordinator of Intramural Sports at Millersville University. We spent some time talking about sports, leadership, and community connections as well as Deven’s involvement in M.A.L.E.S while he […]

Hi Everyone! Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I had a great conversation with Meredith Mickaliger, who is a Community Director at Occidental College in Los Angeles. We had a really fun, long conversation about movies, Meredith’s Annual Oscars Party (the above picture was taken at this year’s), independent music and […]

Hi everyone! Its Wednesday, and that means that its time for another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I had a great conversation with Julie Larsen. Julie is an Academic Advisor at the University of Texas at Dallas, as well as a super fun person to follow on twitter and a maker of a […]

Hi Everyone, welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. I’m very aware that it isn’t Wednesday, but I had a really fun conversation with Leah Wescott, editor in chief of the Cronk of Higher Education, and I thought April Fool’s Day was the perfect time for it to go out to you all. This […]

Hi Everyone, and welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I had a great conversation with Eric Stoller, blogger, speaker, consultant, and super famous twitter personality! We had a great conversation about growing up in a small town, finding a career path, moving around the country, watching movies, and balancing work and […]

Welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES everyone! This week I had a great conversation with Kandi Custodio, who is also known as DJ Kuttin Kandi of the Anomolies Crew. Kandi currently works at the UC San Diego Women’s Center, and is also known around the world as a DJ and turntablist (HERE is a great […]

Hi Everyone, and welcome to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I had the pleasure of talking to Colber Prosper, Coordinator of Multicultural Student Affairs at Keene State College. We had a great conversation about growing up in Florida, familial expectations versus societal expectations, his experience as a student athlete, and movies (Red Tails in […]

Hello! Welcome back to another episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES. This week I was able to interview diversity consultant, graduate student, SJTI alum, and all around awesome person, Victor Satana-Melgoza. We talked about classical music, playing the viola, Victor’s many different careers and hats, socializing, and finding community as one moves from place to place. […]

Hi everyone, As always its Wednesday, and so we have a new episode of LIFE WORK BALANCES! This week I spoke with Van Bailey, who works at UC San Diego‘s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center as the Assistant Director for Education. We talk about fashion both as a fun interest and as a political […]

Hi Everyone, Welcome to another episode of Life Work Balances. This week I had a conversation with Katie McAteer. Katie works in residence life at Cornish College of the Arts, in Seattle Washington. We had a great conversation about Slacklining (and Katie plugged the web site run by the person who introduced her to it), […]

Hello everyone! Welcome back to Life Work Balances! Todays episode features a great conversation with Dr. DL Stewart, Associate Professor at Bowling Green State University in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program. We talked about a lot of things in this episode, and some of them include: Star Wars, Law & Order, spending time […]