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Jane Catton Beattie

Biography

As a native of Canada, Ms. Catton moved to Vermont in 1992 and brings over 35 years of health care and administrative experience. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree as well as two Master’s degrees; one in Health Care Administration and one in Organizational Leadership. She is a Board Certified Nurse Executive and holds additional certification in Health Care Quality.
Ms. Catton’s previous work experience has included senior leadership positions in health care in both Canada and United States. She has worked in a variety of hospital, academic and community based health care settings, both as a registered nurse in Critical Care and Oncology, and as an administrative leader. She served as Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer at Northwestern Medical Center in St. Albans Vermont where she held progressive leadership roles over the span of 13 years. Currently she serves as the CEO of Age Well, Vermont’s largest designated Area Agency on Aging.
Ms. Catton has been active in supporting local health care partnerships and organizations, including advancing health reform initiatives through the Accountable Care Organization (ACO) within her local Health Service Area. She is passionate about opportunities to build collaborations that support primary community based care models, through transitions of care and coordination systems, which support our population health goals for our communities.
Ms. Catton lives in St. Albans with her husband and two dogs. She enjoys traveling, cycling the rail trails of Vermont and spending time with their 5 children; 2 who live locally and 3 who live out of state.

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Akette Cowart

Biography

Akette Cowart currently serves as the Manager of a Cyber Investigations Program with the federal government where he conducts forensic analysis related to internal investigations. He has spent over 25 years in the Information Technology field with a majority dedicated to Cybersecurity and Digital Forensics. An Air Force veteran, he has also worked with the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps as a Cyber Security and Defense professional. Prior to his current position, he served as a Digital Forensic Examiner for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and US Customs and Border Protection.

Favorite Quote

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Krista Crawford

Biography

Krista has a professional background that includes over twenty years of human resource and executive management experience in a variety of settings and organizations, including financial services, philanthropic, healthcare, and industrial production. Her professional and academic group presentations have taken her to many points around the globe and include topics such as moral ethics, positive organizational development, telemedicine, physician leadership, international recruitment, and stress management. Her work has addressed the timely topic of e-leadership, the use of technology in leading organizations, as well as her doctoral research in cultural intelligence, the ability to adapt to other cultures. Her dissertation topic was a result of leading service learning groups to the country of Belize with a philanthropic service organization, www.peacework.org.

Professional & Scholastic Affiliations

Vistage

Curriculum Vitae

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Favorite Quote

“I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.”

—Estée Lauder

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Allison Dean

Biography

Allison has always loved science and began working in the field as a lab technician at the Vermont Cancer Center, shortly after her graduation from UVM. One of the things she loved about her position was the opportunity to work with students, which encouraged her to begin teaching. Since her teaching career began, Allison has been teaching a variety of science courses, including Human Anatomy and Physiology, Nutrition, and Intro to Forensic Science. What Allison most loves about teaching is the challenge to meet the needs of all students in an environment that is constantly changing. Allison is passionate about creating learning environments that support student learning, are inclusive and engaging, are safe learning spaces where students can feel comfortable asking questions and that help students to push past barrier and their fear of science courses. Although she has high expectations for students in their educational journeys, she works hard to develop courses that help students to apply what they learn and help them to discover how important science is to their everyday lives.

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Ezra Demers

Biography

Ezra is from Vermont and went to Champlain for their undergrad. He worked as an Area Coordinator with Champlain’s Housing and Residential Life team before coming to Lakeside to work with Champlain College Online. Being part of the Champlain community has been a wonderful component to Ezra over the years. He likes being outdoors, going for walks, listening to music, and working on his cooking. Ezra has two older sisters who live locally and can often be found spending time with family and dogs. Ezra is an aspiring pet owner and while he doesn’t own a dog yet, he pet sits often in the meantime. In addition, he really likes to travel and has spent time living in Ireland and China with Champlain’s study abroad programs. Ezra is excited to travel more in the future, and also always know Vermont is a place to return home to.

What are your hobbies?

Listening to music, going for walks, hikes, doing yoga, and cooking

Favorite local eateries and things to do in Vermont:

Go for a walk along the bike path!
Check out what’s going on along the waterfront
Foam (on the waterfront)
Go to a berry farm or apple orchard

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Tamie-Jo Dickinson

Biography

Tamie-Jo Dickinson is a National Board Certified Business Teacher and teaches business and entrepreneur classes at CVU High School, Champlain, CCV, VTC, Castleton, and through the Governor’s Institute of Vermont. She has decades of teaching under her belt and is skilled at making complex topics seem easy and attainable. Her passion is teaching entrepreneurship and business social responsibility. She provides training opportunities for teachers around the state on how to implement entrepreneurship into their curriculum, and her students have been winners of many state-wide business plan competitions. She teaches Managerial Accounting at Champlain, and she works as an educational consultant for the Vermont Small Business Development Center.

Hobbies and Interests: Tamie is a certified Jazzercise Instructor, which means she is actually a franchise owner! She teaches adult classes twice a week, and she teaches programs for young children during the summer.

Favorite Quote

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

—George Bernard Shaw

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Jeevan DSouza

Biography

Dr. Jeevan D’Souza has been an adjunct professor of computer science and mathematics at Champlain College Online since 2017. Prior to joining CCO he has worked as an academic, IT manager, computer programmer, and electronics engineer.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (EE) from Shivaji University, India, in 2000, a master’s in EE from the University of Texas in 2003, a graduate certificate in computer engineering at Polytechnic Institute of NYU in 2005 and a PhD in computer science from Nova Southeastern University in 2012.

His teaching interests are in the fields of digital circuit design, computer programming, robotics, and embedded systems. He currently lives in Miami and is enjoying the sunshine.

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Danielle Duerr

Biography

Danielle earned a BFA in Dance and a BA in French from SUNY Brockport in 2015. Before starting at Champlain College Online, Danielle worked as a manager at Barnes & Noble. There, she found a passion for building relationships with people to help them with their needs. She is eager to take that skill and begin her career in higher education as an Academic Advisor. She is excited to build relationships with the students to help them realize their academic and personal goals. When she is not working, Danielle enjoys camping, reading, and baking delicious treats.

What are your hobbies?

Baking, camping, reading, and dancing

Favorite local eateries and things to do in Vermont:

I love Pizza 44 and trying all the local creemee places!

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Damian Dunbar

Biography

Dr. Dunbar thoroughly enjoys bringing his leadership expertise into the educational environment to share his experiences and bring coursework alive. He is highly experienced in employee development and training, human resources, financial analysis, budget operations, personnel development, and leadership management. He served in the United States Army as an analyst for the United States Government. While on active duty, he served as an instructor, writer, developer, and program evaluator at the United States Army Finance School located at Fort Jackson, SC. His primary motivation for working in education is his experience, interest, and passion for developing others’ talents and defining their goals.

Throughout his career, he has been highly dedicated to the learning, training, and advancement of others. He incorporated professional and adult learning and education into each position. He has 30 + years of experience developing programs to assess workforce capabilities and deficiencies, allowing individualized programs to enhance employee skills and he enjoys doing this for his students. His goal in the online classroom is to create a comfortable and interactive learning environment based on respect rather than fear of the subject matter. To achieve that, he builds a strong rapport with his students to be presented in an environment conducive to learning. Likewise, communication is essential to an effective teaching and learning process in the academic setting.

Distinctions & Awards

Certified Defense Financial Manager (American Society of Military Comptrollers)

Publications & Abstracts

PUBLICATIONS & ABSTRACTS

Professional & Scholastic Affiliations

Kappa Alpha Psi, Woodbridge Alumni Chapter

Recommended Reading, Listening & Viewing

• The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People
• A People’s History of the United States
• Reckless Endangerment

Favorite Quote

“Education and work are the levers to uplift people.”

—W.E.B DuBois

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Patrick Eller

Biography

Patrick is currently the CEO of Metadata Forensics, LLC. He is also a Disabled Veteran who spent 20 years in the United States Army where he served as a Special Agent for the US Army Criminal Investigation Command. During his time at CID Patrick served as the Command Digital Forensic Examiner in charge of a global digital forensic program focused on felony level investigation which involved digital evidence. Patrick has been an adjunct for CCO since 2015.

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Ellen Emery

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Ellen graduated from UVM with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Math and Spanish. She attended the University of Seville, Spain for one year. She earned her teaching licenses in Secondary Math and Spanish from Saint Michael’s College where she went on to earn her Master’s Degree in Education. She taught Spanish for 22 years. In 2010, she began work at the Teacher Apprenticeship Program (TAP) where she now serves as the Director at Champlain College.

What are your hobbies?

Zumba, gardening, reading, scrap booking, furniture refinishing, games, and walking the dog

Favorite local eateries and things to do in Vermont:

Love to walk local bike paths and Fellowship of the Wheel trails, eat sandwiches from Martone’s Market and spend time on Seymour Lake.

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Laura Ennis

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Laura Ennis joined the Financial Aid team at Champlain College in 2021. Laura is the Financial Aid Coordinator for the online and graduate students.

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Larraby Fellows

Biography

Larraby is an award-winning Instructional Designer who has worked in higher education for 20+ years. She has a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Bennington College, a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) degree from Simmons University and a M.A. in Leadership Studies from Northern Vermont University.

She has worked as an academic librarian, instructor, or instructional designer at Bennington College, Union Institute & University, the Community College of Vermont and the Vermont State Colleges system.

Larraby has taught online for the Community College of Vermont and Vermont State University for 10+ years, including CCV courses: Dimensions of Self & Society, Technical Writing & Research, World Mythology, and VTSU Leadership Studies/graduate capstone course Scholar-Practitioner Inquiry.

Larraby grew up in Southern Vermont and now lives in Worcester, Vermont with her two daughters, husband, and unruly flock of cats.

What are your hobbies?

Cinema, painting, pottery, knitting, furniture restoration, crafting of any kind, and baking with my daughters.

Favorite local eateries and things to do in Vermont:

Bakery hopping around my beautiful state: from Red Hen Bakery in Middlesex, to Bohemian Bakery in Montpelier to King Arthur Flour in Upper Valley and everyplace in between!

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Jennifer Ferrara

Biography

Gin considers herself a “multimediator” — a person who helps folks use media to tell their own stories and connect to their communities. She has taught video-making to young people and community members for most of her life. Gin co-founded Baltimore’s Wide Angle Youth Media and was the Executive Director for 10 years, building an organization from the ground up. In Vermont since 2011, she was the host of The Upside VT radio show and co-founded the Burlington story community Storytelling VT. Currently Gin is the Community Engagement Manager at Media Factory, a community media center. She is also a visual artist and

Distinctions & Awards

UVM Community-Engaged Learning Award 2022
Wide Angle Youth Media Leadership Award 2010
OSI Baltimore Community Fellowship 2002

Recommended Reading, Listening & Viewing

• Scott McCloud, “Understanding Comics” —My film teacher at UMBC suggested I read this, and I still look at wall outlets and see little surprised faces in them. A great breakdown of the elements of sequential storytelling.
• Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, “This Is How You Lose the Time War” —A story told in letters, each chapter is its own little world.

Curriculum Vitae

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