Project UCTP



Faculty Members

Mary Esther, Emery Secondary School

Mary Esther Augustine has been with Emery Unified School District since 1969, serving as counselor, vice-principal, 21st Century Project Director, interim superintendent and presently as Emery Secondary School Assistant Principal/District Testing Coordinator/11th - 12th Grade Counselor. She is a native of Berkeley, California. Her educational background includes earning a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from U.C. Berkeley, and an M.S. in Counseling Psychology from California State University at Hayward, as well as a J.D. from John F. Kennedy focusing on arbitration and negotiations. She is a mother of 3 children and a grandmother of 4 children. Her interests are reading, fine dining, theatre and opera. Her club/organization memberships include Association of California School Administrators, California Teachers Association, National Education Association, American Association of Counseling and Guidance, American Psychological Association, University of California Alumni Association, John F. Kennedy Law University Alumni Association, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, and Commonwealth Club of San Francisco.

Donovan Moretz, Emery Secondary School

Donovan Moretz has been working in the technology and audio/visual fields for over 15 years in various roles, such as a systems engineer to a film storage specialist at Diablo Valley College. He currently is a Network Engineer for Emery Unified School District. He also runs a digital recording studio out of the music room, and runs a hot glass project with the art teacher, where they use techniques such as fusing and slumping.

Mark Davis, Emery Secondary School

Mark Davis was born in Houlton, Maine. He obtained his B.A. in 20th Century United States History from the University of California, Davis with a second emphasis in Latin American History and a minor in Political Theory. His teaching credential is from Sonoma State University. Mr. Davis has been teaching Social Science at Emery Secondary school for ten years. He lives in Richmond, California with his wife Carola. He has two children and two grandchildren. He enjoys camping and playing the guitar.

Eriko Machi, Reitaku University

Eriko Machi's educational background includes earning Masters' Degree in Communication Studies from the University of Kansas, a Bachelors of Arts from the International Christian University (ICU) (Tokyo), and a Bachelors of Science from Grand Valley State College (Grand Valley, MI). Her publications include: Ibunka Toreiningu (Cross-Cultural Training, 1998, Sashusha. She is interested in the incorporation of cross-cultural training methods and approached to their implementations in higher education. She is currently a Professor in, and Chair of the English Department at Reitaku University. She serves as Vice President for the Society of Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR, Japan Chapter).

Clyde Lewis, Reitaku University

Clyde Lewis' educational background includes earning his Bachelors Degree in Ethnic Studies and Masters' Degree in Educational Administration from the University of Hawaii, Manoa. Clyde Lewis is interested in inequalities and inconsistencies in education. His publications include: Factors that influence College enrollment for Asian and Pacific Island students (Masters' Paper). Harassment and Discrimination at a Minority-Serving Institution and their impact on Students' Educational Satisfaction (Association for the Study of Higher Education Conference Paper). He is currently the Coordinator of the English Lounge at Reitaku University, located in Chiba, Japan.

Tomoko Yoshida, Keio University

Tomoko Yoshida's educational background includes earning a PhD. from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in Education, a M.S. from Syracuse University in Counselor Education, and a B.A. from the International Christian University in Tokyo in Intercultural Communication. Tomoko is interested in culture and how it affects the way we behave. Her major publications include: Intercultural Communication Training: An Introduction (1994, Sage Publications), Improving Intercultural Relations (1994, Sage Publications), and The Japanese Returnee Experience: Factors that Affect Reentry (International Journal of Intercultural Relations Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 429-445, 2002). Her dissertation examined the role of parents in promoting college enrollment for children of diverse races. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business & Commerce, Keio University. She is also the Assistant Director of the Keio Research Center for Foreign Language Education.

Ainge Michael, Keio University

Hi! I'm Michael Ainge (pronounced like 'strange'). I've been teaching Film Studies (and English) at Keio now for over a dozen years, and am happy to be part of this project. Cross-cultural understanding is hard to come by, but is better viewed as a process, not a concrete set of goals. I'm interested in how people express themselves in visual images (like photographs), and that is what brought me on board for this class. I like living in Tokyo, and enjoy the various cool scenes I can partake in, both while in Tokyo--restaurants, Japanese sake, film, wine, underground grungy rock-n-roll--and outside Tokyo--film, travel, etc.
This picture was taken of me, and is very colorful--however, the part of it which strikes me most is that the colors are generated by the location and the camera filters, and I happily blend in. Also, half of my face is in shadow, which is how I feel a lot of the time.
Anyway, that's enough for now. Looking forward to getting to know you!

Mariko Muro Yokokawa, Keio University

Although those of you at Emery and Reitaku have not seen much of me on camera, I have been observing the development of the students in this course with interest since the beginning of this course. My area of interest is intercultural education and communication, and I have used observational and ethnographic methods to do my research ever since I began my Ph.D. program at Stanford University. My dissertation was on how Japanese children become acculturated at one American elementary school. I now teach at Keio University. I was brought up in Afghanistan and Egypt, went to graduate school twice in the U.S. for a total of eight years, and spent three years as an officer at Unesco headquarters in Paris. This means that I do not really know where I am from. Watching the process of cultural contact over the net has been fascinating for me.

Faculty Members

kr@hc.cc.keio.ac.jp