Faculty
Brian Acord
MBA, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
PEP Course(s) Taught: MGT 2750-Launch Your Business
Brian Acord is an adjunct professor for The Mill Entrepreneurship Center and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program at Salt Lake Community College, as well as the program manager for the Verizon Innovative Learning STEM Achievers Program. He also is an advisor/mentor and Program Services Coordinator for refugee/minority business owners via the Salt Lake Center of Opportunity Partnership (Co-Op). In his free time, Brian coaches for USA Lacrosse and USA Hockey, runs a podcast (www.StrangersYouKnowPodcast.com), serves on the board of directors for Common Thread (www.commonthreadut.com) and is actively involved in the nonprofit Nomad Alliance (www.NomadAlliance.org).
Jacob Baker
PhD (ABD), Philosophy and Religious Thought, Claremont Graduate University
PEP Course(s) Taught: Phil 1120: Social Ethics, Phil 2350: Philosophy of Religion
Jacob Baker conducts research focused on the Philosophy of Religion with an emphasis on the problem of evil and philosophical and religious responses to suffering. Baker has considerable experience teaching courses on ethics and moral problems.
David Bokovoy
PhD, Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East, Brandeis University
PEP Course(s) Taught: RELS 2300-World Religions, HIST 1500 World History to 1500, MUSC 1020 History of Rock and Roll
David Bokovoy is the Director of Salt Lake Community College's Prison Education Program. Bokovoy holds a Ph.D. in Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East and a master’s degree in Jewish studies from Brandies University. He has taught at Brigham Young University, the University of Utah, and Utah State University. Having served as a chaplain at Harvard University, he is deeply committed to promoting interfaith dialogue and social justice. Bokovoy has also been a member of several rock and blues bands.
Christopher Bradbury
PhD, Geology, University of Utah
MS, Geology, University of Utah
PEP Course(s) Taught: GEOG 1000-Physical Geography, GEOG-1300-World Regional Geography, GEOG 1700-Natural Disasters
Christopher Bradbury is the Coordinator for Salt Lake Community College's Prison Education Program, member of the Utah Reintegration Program steering committee, and teaches physical science courses in the Utah State Correctional Facility. He also is adjunct faculty at both Utah Valley University and Salt Lake Community College. His research interests include, but are not limited to, investigating how climate change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition impacted human populations in Utah at that time, as well as investigating the regressive phase of Lake Bonneville. He has published in numerous top-tier scholarly journals, including American Antiquity, Chemical Geology, PLOS ONE, Quaternary Research, and Utah Archaeology. Helping people to succeed in their academic and personal goals is his passion.
Rod Buhler
MS, Information Security and Assurance, Western Governor's University
PEP Course(s) Taught: CSIS 1020-Computer Essentials, CSIS 2010-Business Computer Proficiency
Rod Buhler is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and Information Systems at Salt Lake Community College. Over the last 50 years, he has gained extensive experience in the computer industry and has witnessed the evolution of technology firsthand. However, what truly excites him is teaching. He is a dedicated and experienced teacher who has invested a significant amount of time in educating others about technology and its applications. Rod takes immense pleasure in sharing his knowledge and expertise with others and is proud to have helped inspire and shape the minds of many students over the years.
John Perry Christensen
PhD (ABD), History, University of Utah
PEP Course(s) Taught: HIST 1700-American Civilization, HIST 1510-World History since 1500, HIST 2700 – US History to 1877, HIST 2710 – US History Since 1877
John Perry Christensen teaches history at Utah Valley University, Salt Lake Community College, and Utah County Academy of Sciences. His students in SLCC's Prison Education Program refer to him as "Professor C" (though, as he is a dissertation away from completing his Ph.D. in history at the University of Utah, they may be referring to him as "Doctor C" in the next year or so.) His dissertation—tentatively titled "Raising Workers: Work, Class, and American Psychiatry, 1912-1972"—explores how psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychiatric social workers conceptualized work's relationship with mental health and hygiene during the twentieth century. His academic areas of interest include—but are not limited to—American labor history, the social history of medicine, addiction, and the War on Drugs. He believes in using the study of the past as a medium through which to do social work.
Beth Colosimo
MBA, Marketing, Westminster College
PEP Course(s) Taught: MGT 2750-Launch Your Business
Beth Colosimo is the Executive Director for The Mill Entrepreneurship Center and Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. Beth also oversees eight divisions related to training and educating entrepreneurs, start-ups, and small business owners. The Mill and their staff of experts help create opportunities and provide resources to anyone looking to cultivate their version of the American dream of business ownership.
Cecile Delozier, Associate Dean
PhD, (ABD), Criminal Justice, Walden Univeristy
MS, Criminial Justice, Southern New Hampshire University
MP, Philosophy, Walden University
PEP Course(s) Taught: CJ 1010: Introduction to Criminal Justice, CJ 1330: Criminal Law
Associate Dean Cecile Delozier has had a career long commitment to teaching with a strong emphasis on student engagement and successful outcomes. She has 18 years of experience in Corrections at the juvenile, county, and state levels. She rose through the ranks from officer to Lieutenant at a maximum-security facility, during which she became a master instructor in multiple disciplines as well as developed classes and acted as a Field Training Officer. Her last five years were as Training Director for the North Dakota Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. This role provided her opportunities to work with outside partners Amend and the Norwegian Correctional Services, The Vera Institute, and The Moss Group on prison reform and innovative approaches to working with justice involved people. As a consultant and master trainer for Desert Waters Correctional Outreach she has been able to work with corrections departments across the county to improve working conditions for correctional staff.
Jeshua Enriquez
Ph.D. in English, University of California
PEP Course(s) Taught: English 1100 Diversity in Popular US Literature
Jeshua Enriquez is relatively new to Salt Lake City, but he's been teaching for about 10 years including a former life as a high school teacher in Chicago, and as a college instructor in the Los Angeles area. He's taught a lot of writing and composition courses in the past, as well as literature classes like World Literature and Multicultural Science Fiction. One of his favorite things about teaching is seeing the different ways students bring their own interests, hobbies, and favorites into a course.
Rachel Francom
PhD, Educational Psychology, University of Utah
PEP Course(s) Taught: MATH 1040-Introduction to Statistics
Rachel Francom is an Assistant Professor at Utah Valley University. Dr. Francom conducts research into how to teach and learn new concepts, especially in the subjects of math and science. She also researches how psychosocial variables affect learning and the ideological foundations that underpin modern educational systems. She teaches math courses for the SLCC PEP.
Antonette Gray
PhD (ABD), Capella University
MA, Monmouth University, New Jersey
PEP Course(s) Taught: CJ 1010- Introduction to Criminal Justice
Antonette Gray is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the Institute of Public Safety at Salt Lake Community College. She has worked for the Utah State government for over 10 years with the Utah Department of Child and Family Services, Utah Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice, and Utah Department of Corrections. In addition to teaching full-time, she supports Salt Lake Community College's Prison Education Project where she has worked with offenders and their re-entry efforts. Antonette is a Certified ‘Makin it Work' Instructor (Life Skills for Offenders), and a Certified Corrections Academy and Peace Officer Standards Training Instructor. Gray has been a member of the National Criminal Justice Honor Society since 2010.
David Hubert
PhD, Political Science, University of Connecticut.
PEP Course(s) Taught: POLS 1100—Introduction to U.S. Government and Politics
David Hubert is the Associate Provost for Learning Advancement and Professor of Political Science at Salt Lake Community College. He serves as a faculty for institutes conducted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities and is the author of Attenuated Democracy: A Critical Introduction to U.S. Government and Politics .
Darin Jensen
PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
PEP Course(s) Taught: ENGL 1010-Introduction to Writing, ENGL 2010-Intermediate Writing, ENGL 1100-Diversity in Popular US Literature
Darin Jensen is a first-generation college graduate who is deeply invested in the democratic mission of the community college. He teaches reading and writing in a variety of contexts and is the editor of Teaching English in the Two-Year College , a national peer-reviewed journal dedicated to literacy studies in the two-year college.
Jennifer Klenk
MBA, University of Arizona.
PEP Course(s) Taught: MKTG 1030: Introduction to Marketing, MKTG 1300: Business Presentations, MKTG 1480: Sales, MKTG 1960: Professionalism in Business
Jennifer Klenk is a serial entrepreneur with decades of experience in business, marketing, sales, retail management, and the entertainment industry who has a wealth of industry applications, stories, and a professional network to help students navigate their business/marketing/influencer careers.
Brad Kramer
PhD, Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Michigan
PEP Course(s) Taught: ANTH 1010-Culture and Human Experience: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, ANTH 1020-Human Origins: Evolution and Diversity, ANTH 1030 – World Prehistory: An Introduction, ANTH 1070 – Language and Culture: Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
Brad Kramer teaches courses in Anthropology for Salt Lake Community College and Utah Valley University. His research interests include religion and religious modernity, sociolinguistics, verbal taboo and social power, language acquisition, ethics, and the relationship between language and gender. Dr. Kramer owns and operates an academic bookstore in Utah County, where he resides with his family.
Sharee Laidlaw
JD, Law, Southwestern Law School-Los Angeles
PEP Cours(s) Taught: LS 1500-Contracts, LS 1010-Introduction to Law
Sharee Laidlaw is currently the Department Coordinator for the Legal Studies program at Salt Lake Community College, where she educates and trains students to become licensed paralegal practitioners and to prepare for law school. She also teaches ethics at the University of Utah as part of the S. J. Quinney College of Law Master of Legal Studies program. She is passionate about teaching students about the law and preparing them for successful careers as a vital part of the legal team.
Anthony J. Nocella II
PhD, Social Science, Maxwell School for Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
MA, Peacemaking and Conflict Studies, Syracuse University
MS, Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University
Graduate Certificate Advanced Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Syracuse University
Graduate Certificate Advance Studies, Mediation, Fresno Pacific University
Graduate Certificate Advance Studies, International Conflict Management, Syracuse University
PEP Cours(s) Taught: CJ 1010-Introduction to Criminal Justice CJ 1220 Justice, Peace, Conflict Studies, CJ 1330 - Criminal Law, CJ 1340 - Criminal Investigations, CJ 2350 - Laws of Evidence
Anthony J. Nocella II (he/they) (AKA Ant), scholar-activist, born in Philadelphia, PA, is an international award-winning author, community organizer, and Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Salt Lake Community College. Nocella is a director of the Academy for Peace Education, Save the Kids, Institute for Critical Animal Studies, editor of the Peace Studies Journal, managing editor of the Green Theory and Praxis Journal, Lowrider Studies Journal, and Transformative Justice Journal, co-editor of five peer-review books series including Hip Hop Studies and Activism with Peter Lang Publishing and coordinator of the Utah Alternatives to Violence Project and the Utah Reintegration Program. Nocella who is active on campus-wide committees and national academic associations has taught at twelve universities, including St. Cloud State University, SUNY Cortland, Le Moyne College, Hamline University, Fort Lewis College, North Hennepin Community College, and Syracuse University. Nocella has taught in over fifty juvenile detention facilities, jails, and prisons throughout the US for over twenty years and has published over forty books and hundred book chapters or articles. His work has been translated in Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German, Korean, and Japanese. He has co-founded numerous concepts and the fields of critical animal studies, Hip Hop criminology, Hip Hop activism, lowrider studies, disability pedagogy, terrorization, academic repression, ecoability, revolutionary environmentalism, radical animal studies, and total liberation. He has been interviewed by New York Times, Washington Post, Houston Chronicles, Durango Herald, Fresno Bee, Fox, CBS, CNN, C-SPAN, and the Los Angeles Times.
Carrie Rogers-Whitehead
MLIS, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
MPA, University of Texas-Arlington
PEP Course(s) Taught: BUS 1050-Fundamentals of Business, BUS 2200-Business Communications
Carrie Rogers-Whitehead has been an adjunct instructor at Salt Lake Community College since 2015. She founded Digital Respons-Ability in 2016, a mission-based company that teaches tens of thousands of K-12 students, parents, and educators around the world digital citizenship. Her company has been the Utah state provider of internet safety education since 2019 and they recently won a 2022 Tech & Learning award for their teacher certification program. Carrie is an award-winning author of 7 books, most recently Deepening Digital Citizenship: A Guide to Systemwide Policy and Practice with the International Society for Technology in Education. She is a Utah Business 40 under 40 award winner and enjoys helping SLCC students know more about business and entrepreneurship.
Sherri Wittwer
MPA, University of Utah
PEP Course(s) Taught: POLS 1100-Introduction to US Government and Politics, POLS 2100-Introduction to International Politics
Sherri Wittwer's work includes mental health and housing policy and advocacy work in the non-profit, government, and corporate arenas. This includes providing support, education and advocacy for individuals affected by mental illness and their families, as well as systemic work through the development of policy, programs, and evidence-based services. She loves teaching at the prison because of the intelligent, engaged, and thoughtful students there.