Anya Zinoveva was born and raised in Eastern Europe, and she came to the US with her family at the age of twenty. This cultural shift shapes her perception of education: Anya is dedicated to accommodating learners from a variety of cultural backgrounds.

Anya's background includes fine art, video, filmmaking, and web technologies. She holds MA in Video | Digital Art at California State University, Northridge, Web Technology Certification at Harvard Extension School, Project Management Certificate at Corporate Education Group, and Fine Art Certificate at Shevchenko State Art School.

Anya has taught online and face-to-face courses in web design, motion graphics, animation, 2D design, computer graphics, digital media, and internships. Her teaching experience includes Holy Names University, Moorpark College, and Golden Key Art, a private K-12 school. At El Camino College, her role is an Adjunct Instructor in the Fine Arts Division and the FLC Trailblazer at SITE.

Anya explores technology to facilitate learning experiences in diverse classrooms. She presented the new ways to use video in online and traditional classes at DE Conference Institute at ECC and OTC'19. As the Trailblazer of the Focused Learning Community "UDL," Anya hopes to share her findings and exchange ideas to address the needs of the ever-changing student population at El Camino College and beyond.

Outside of teaching, Anya is passionate about philosophy, horse riding, animal welfare, and the environmental movement.

Born in Colombia, Claudia Prada spent her childhood years in Central America. She is also an artist and she has exhibited her work at several venues in the Los Angeles area, and her art was displayed at El Camino College to celebrate Latino Heritage Month. In her classroom she daily quotes Martin Heidegger: “To speak another language is to experience another way of being.” This other way of being, in the making of art, manifests itself as thoughts and emotions that may be juxtapositional in the bilingual mind. She supports bilingualism and wants to help her students to reach their goals on attaining foreign language fluency. She adds that for these eclectic thinkers art and language become a form of social interaction. For her, language is a very important aspect of being human and bilingualism not only contribute to communicate others, but to understand them.

Ms. Prada holds masters degrees from UCLA in both Spanish-American Literature and Theater, and Film and Television. She was awarded UCLA Film and Television Graduate Woman of the Year and received the Edward James Olmos Award. Her animation film “After the Rain” was screened at the Latino Film Festival in San Diego. Her animation skills are reflected in the movement she beckons on the canvas.

Furthermore, she has designed and developed a series of interactive multimedia e-books to learn basic Spanish and French, Ibilinguo in Spanish and Ibilinguo in French received the IRWIN AWARD for Best E-Book of the Year (available in iTunes). She has also written a Spanish grammar reference workbook Say it in Español Level 1 and 2 as well as Spanish for Children.

Dr. Moses Wolfenstein is the Distance Education Faculty Coordinator at El Camino College. He primarily works to advance and support online teaching practices here at ECC through instruction, design, and policy development. He is also the campus representative for the California Virtual Campus Online Education Initiative through which he collaborates with colleagues across the system to improve online learning throughout the California Community Colleges. Prior to coming to ECC, Dr. Wolfenstein worked for the University of Wisconsin–Extension as a User Experience Designer. He holds a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he worked with the Games, Learning, & Society research group.

Dr. Crystle Martin is the Director of Library and Learning Resources. She has a PhD in Education and a Masters in Library and Information Science. Her PhD explored information literacy skills developed by late high school and early college age youth in the video game World of Warcraft. She has studied informal learning in a lot of different communities, including an online professional wrestling community, online coding communities, and rural libraries that are trying to implement coding programs for the youth in their communities. She loves to play board and video games, cook, and hike with her husband, and enjoys hanging out at home with their three cats.