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 TRiO Staff
These are the TRiO staff that you may meet when you are in the TLC offices. Here you will get to know something about each of them. They will assist you while you are a member of TRiO.
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Mary Parthemer, TRiO director, manages the TRiO program. She assists TRiO students with clarifying their goals at Lane and developing specific, annual plans to achieve those goals. She offers information, support and guidance. She also provides personal/career counseling, and teaches workshops and TRiO credit classes. Mary loves working with TRiO students, as they are highly motivated and dedicated people. Email Mary |
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Marla Norton is the Administrative Support Specialist for the TRiO Learning Center since 1999. She is the first point of contact for TRiO students, and she enjoys her role in helping students make appointments, referring them to the proper resources, answering questions, or offering support and encouragement. Marla finds TRiO students to be very inspirational. Email Marla |
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Kate Parrish is the TRiO Academic Advisor. "I love working with TRiO students! It's an honor to walk with them at this exciting and challenging time in their lives."
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Nancy Cockrell, TRiO Tutor Coordinator, ensures smooth tutoring services in the TLC. Nancy helps TRiO students with writing, computers, social sciences, and tutors math through Math 60. Nancy finds working with TRiO students a rewarding investment, and particularly enjoys seeing the progress students make learning to write on computers, and with writing their essays for scholarships. Email Nancy |
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Bree McKenzie has worked as a counselor in the counseling center and as a part-time instructor since 2005. At TRiO she meets with students for personal and career counseling, academic advising (including health careers) and conducting workshops. "I'm very excited about being able to meet with and support TRiO students on an on-going basis. I enjoy following the students on how they are doing along this exciting and challenging path of college education. |
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Janelle Raimer is a current student at Lane, who has been doing office work in multiple places for quite sometime. She hopes to transfer to the U of O to get a communications degree and continue working in some sort of office setting. She enjoys the outdoors, along with playing and coaching volleyball, watching movies, writing poetry, and hanging out with friends and family. |
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Lynn Galle is working as a tutor here because she loves learning, which means she gets to be around people who desire to learn as much as she does. When not in TRiO, you will find her in the Science Resource Center. If she is not in either location, then that means she is out climbing, hiking, or biking some mountain. |
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Dylan Haney is a new tutor at the TLC this term. He earned a degree from LCC in Fabrication and Welding Technology in 203, and is now back in school as a Mechanical Engineering major. He has been enjoying tutoring local students in mathematics, as well as international students in speaking and writing English over this past year. Dylan is interested in music production and performance, building things (like an electric bike), and enjoying the beautiful outdoors of the South Willamette Valley. |
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Matt Kessler is new to the TRiO team this term. He graduated Lane's Drafting program a few years ago and has since been working at a local engineering firm that encouraged his return to school. He's working towards a transfer to OSU's civil engineering Pro School and is looking forward to tutoring math and science along the way. |
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Liz Pratt is a new tutor in TRiO specializing in accounting, writing, and computers. She is studying accounting and business at LCC. She loves writing and attempts to write a short novel each November during National Novel Writing Month. She also loves folding paper and teaches origami at the Oregon Asian Celebration in February. |
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Shanee Mali is a senior at the University of Oregon. She is dual majoring in Sociology and Psychology. She loves to be surrounded by individuals who love and recognize the awesomeness of learning. Her interests/hobbies include: spending time with family, studying religious texts, reading, thinking, and so many more! |
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Damien Kruzkiki graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, in 2000. He received a Bachelor's degree in Fine Art in Photography. He worked in the commercial photo industry until 2008. Recently, he has changed career paths and is enrolled in the Physical Therapist Assistant proram at Lane Community College. Damien is here at TRiO to see students succeed! Activities enjoyed are many; favorites are bike riding and trail running. |
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Sean McKenzie is a new TRiO tutor this term. He graduated from college in June 2008 with a major in Biology. Immediately afterward, he left Massachusetts, where he went to school, to return to the West Coast. The previous summer he had worked in Eugene and fell in love with the town. A job opening drew him back to Track Town, but that job fell through. Luckily, he found a job at LCC's TRiO program and is now enjoying his work as a math and science tutor here. Sean enjoys running and hiking in his free time, and is an advocate of veganism and third party politics. |
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Jake Mosby joined the TRiO team in 2009. Jake is a Math major in his second year at U of O. He enjoys seeing "lightbulbs" over people's head when they learn something new. Passionate about his work, Jake hopes to learn from his students while tutoring. He aspires to be a freelance actuary or a novelist. |
The TRiO Learning Center is a Student Support Services program funding by the US Department of Education, Division of Special Services, Title IV, Higher Education Act of 1965, ($244,735 in 2008-09). |
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