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- Meet the Faculty: Roberta “Bobbi” Clarke, EdDRoberta Clarke, EdD, is an assistant professor in the Department of School Counseling and School Psychology at Azusa Pacific University. She has an EdD in Educational Leadership from California State University, Long Beach, and brings more than 25 years of PreK-12 public school system experience to the classroom.
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- Meet the Faculty: Lishelle Grant, MA, MFTLishelle Grant, MA, MFT, has been a licensed marriage and family therapist since 2003, and is passionate about walking alongside students on their journey to becoming psychotherapists. As the director of clinical training for the MA in Clinical Psychology program at the Orange County Regional Campus, she supports students in their transition to practicum work. She also enjoys teaching at APU and supervising trainees and interns in individual and group settings. Her clinical work focuses on helping women, teens, and couples work through barriers to emotional, relational, and spiritual wholeness. She is experienced in the areas of depression, anxiety, parenting, marital distress, grief/loss, and trauma/abuse.
- Meet the Faculty: Marissa Brash, DrPH, MPH, CPHMarissa Brash, DrPH, MPH, CPH, is the chair of the Department of Public Health at Azusa Pacific University and an assistant professor in the School of Nursing’s MSN program. Brash has a passion for teaching while also working on curriculum design, accreditation standards, program implementation, evaluation, and assessment. She is nationally-certified in public health and has a strong background in biostatistics and epidemiology. Her research interests include epigenetic-based autoimmune public health prevention efforts through lifestyle interventions and neuroeducation topics related to academic stress and anxiety in the STEM subjects.
- Meet the Faculty: Alan Oda, PhDAlan Oda, PhD, is an APU psychology professor whose current research is on the response of pastors to the needs of elderly congregants. A Southern California native, Oda received his PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Riverside, specializing in developmental psychology. Oda is on the board of directors of the Asian American Christian Counseling Service, and has served on the Faithful Change national research team for the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. After working as a lab tech at UCLA’s Neuropsychiatric Institute and as the project assistant for the Western Region Asian American Project, he completed his teaching internship at California State University, Northridge, which started his career in the classroom.
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- Meet the Faculty: Candice Hodge, PhDCandice R. Hodge, PhD, assistant professor in Azusa Pacific’s Department of Criminal Justice. She brings a sociology background to the classroom and her research, which focuses on the effects of colorism in the 21st century, body image among African American teenage girls, domestic violence, interpersonal violence on college campuses, STDs and HIV among minority communities, and the effects of poverty among African American communities. Hodge is a member of the sociology honor society Alpha Kappa Delta, the Association of Black Sociologists, the California Sociological Association, the Pacific Sociological Association, the DC Sociological Society, the Southern Sociological Society, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
- Meet the Faculty: Windy Petrie, PhDWindy Petrie, PhD, is a professor and chair of the Department of English. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware and specializes in literary autobiography, transatlantic authorship and readership in the long 19th century, and the representation of faith in 18th century Victorian novels. Petrie is a former Fulbright Scholar to Lithuania, where she lectured on tropes of exile in 19th and 20th century novels, as well as the roles of women and minorities in American literary history.