Comings and Goings
The School of Education welcomes Kristi Bronkey as an assistant professor of education in Redmond. She worked in the Santa Ana Unified School District in Santa Ana, Calif., from 1997 to 2007, teaching fifth grade for seven years and kindergarten for three. Kristi earned a master’s degree in education from Concordia University in 2002 and a bachelor’s degree in communication from Biola University in 1994. She lives in Redmond with her husband Tam and attends Sisters Community Church.
Kim Colantino joins the writing/literature department to serve a one-year appointment as an assistant professor. She has worked the past four years as a composition and literature instructor at Chemeketa Community College and George Fox. Kim also has taught classes online through Oregon Coast Community College and gained teaching experience in the Newberg Public School system as a high school English instructor for home-schooled students. Kim earned a master’s degree in rhetoric and composition from Washington State University in 2001 and a bachelor’s degree in writing/literature from George Fox in 1999. She lives in Keizer with husband Jim and attends St. Edward in Keizer.
Kristina Molitor joins the School of Education as an assistant professor in Redmond. For the past year, she was the district curriculum director for the Wahluke School District in Mattawa, Wash., and since 2004, she was an elementary school principal for that district. In the early 2000s, she was an intermediate school reading coach and reading specialist at Saddle Mountain Intermediate School in Mattawa. Kristina earned a master’s degree in education from the University of Portland in 1994 and a bachelor’s degree in education from Western Montana College in 1991. She lives in Madras with husband Rick and children Maddie and Ricky.
The MAT program in Redmond welcomes Anne Sjogren as an assistant professor. An adjunct in the program since the spring of 2007, Anne also has worked as a substitute teacher in the Sherwood School District for the past seven years. Before that, she taught middle and high school in Robbinsdale, Minn., from 1992 to 1999 before choosing to stay home with her two sons, Matthew and Niklas. Anne earned a master’s degree in liberal studies from the University of Minnesota in 1998 and holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal studies/English literature from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, Calif. She recently relocated to Bend with her husband, David, and two boys.

Burel Ford (Multicultural Services) left George Fox Sept. 1 to work as director of the Multicultural Student Center at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz. He had worked at the university for four years.
Eva-Lynn Johnson has resigned as science outreach coordinator and has moved out of the area.