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Judith Norman has been engaged with community organizing for 20 years. She has worked with movements for economic justice, anti-militarization,
educational justice, decarceration, and the liberation of Palestine. The latter is closest to her heart, and she has worked with Jewish Voice for Peace and San Antonio for Justice in Palestine. She is a Murchison Distinguished
Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Trinity University.

The opinions she expresses are her own, and do not represent her employer or any of the organizations with which she is affiliated

Tom Patterson is Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

He is author of the recently published How America Lost Its Mind, which looks at the problem of misinformation. Earlier books include Out of Order, which examined the media’s political role and received the
American Political Science Association’s Graber Award as the best book of the decade in political communication. Another is The Unseeing Eye, which looked at television’s impact on politics and was named by the American Association for Public Opinion Research as one of the leading books on public opinion of the past half century.

A Minnesota native, he earned his PhD at the University of Minnesota, where he studied after serving in the US Army Special Forces in Vietnam.

Ms. Peggy Burford Chavez has worked in higher education for about 25 years and is the Career Experience Team Leader at Northeast Lakeview College.  She holds a Master of Arts degree in Counseling and a Master of Science degree in Sociology. 

Her background in higher education is rooted in academic advising and career counseling, but she has also taught courses in Student Development and Sociology.  She has worked at various institutional types, such as community colleges, large universities, and small private universities.

 

In her current position, Mrs. Chavez oversees the Career Engaged Learning Office (CELO) at Northeast Lakeview College, which assists students with career exploration, career experience, and career readiness.

 In her personal time, Mrs. Chavez enjoys traveling to island getaways and tropical beaches throughout Mexico and the Caribbean.

 

Dr. Mark Sadler has a PhD in Philosophy. He is a native Texan and US Air Force vet. His specialty areas are Ancient philosophy, Metaphysics, Religion and Philosophy of Mind. For the last 20 years he has had an elevated interest in Philosophy of Law and in Film studies.

Judith Norman has been engaged with community organizing for 20 years. She has worked with movements for economic justice, anti-militarization, educational
justice, decarceration, and the liberation of Palestine. The latter is closest to her heart, and she has worked with Jewish Voice for Peace and San Antonio for Justice in Palestine. She  is a Murchison Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Trinity University.


The opinions she expresses are her own, and do not represent her employer or any of the organizations with which she is affiliated

Angie Brazeal Hager is a Professor of English and an EDUC 1300 faculty member at NLC.  She is from St. Louis, MO, and is an alumnus of UTSA, where she earned a BA in English, MA in English, a Graduate Certificate
in Creative Writing, and a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Administration.  During her English course work, Ms. Hager was particularly interested in modernist literature and her own creative writing (poetry and short stories).  At NLC, Ms. Hager teaches ENGL 1301, 1302,2322, 2323, 2327, and 2328, in addition to EDUC 1300.  She began her career at St. Philip’s College where she served as a writing
tutor; she has been teaching at the college level since 2004.  In her free time, Ms. Hager loves to read, watch baseball, attend concerts and music festivals, and spend time hiking, camping, and kayaking.  She is involved with the young adult ministry at her church and serves as a
faculty leader for Alamo Colleges Study Abroad.  Ms. Hager’s main goal as a college professor (beyond teaching students to appreciate literature and become mature writers and researchers) is to know her students well enough to encourage, assist, and empower them while they
are at NLC and as they continue into their university studies and careers.