{"id":48065,"date":"2017-10-02T13:47:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/?p=48065"},"modified":"2017-10-02T13:47:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T21:47:10","slug":"comings-and-goings-176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/2017\/10\/02\/comings-and-goings-176\/","title":{"rendered":"Comings and Goings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Nichole-Drew-e1506980282277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48066\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Nichole-Drew-e1506980282277.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>Nichole Drew<\/strong>, a talent development manager the past four years with Enterprise Holdings Inc. who has 13-plus years of management and human resources experience, joins the university as its first director of employee empowerment. She will be a key leader in the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new Innovation and Empowerment division, which aligns employee empowerment (formerly HR), information technology, data analytics, strategic planning and innovation. As the employee empowerment leader, Nichole will give special focus to talent development and hiring. She will also oversee the main HR functions of the university. She joins George Fox after overseeing\u00c2\u00a0talent development and leadership training efforts with Enterprise Holdings Inc. for Oregon and Southwest Washington\u00c2\u00a0since May of 2013. Previously, she worked for five years as an area rental manager for Enterprise Rent a Car, overseeing 60 employees at eight locations. Nichole earned a bachelor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s degree in communication studies from Portland State University in 2003 and was a four-year student-athlete at the university, earning a scholarship in softball and serving as a team captain. She lives in Newberg with her husband Chad and their children Austin (7) and Avery (2). The family attends Family Life Church in Newberg.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Michelle-Kang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48067\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Michelle-Kang.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"260\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Michelle Kang<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0joins the PsyD department as a\u00c2\u00a0program\u00c2\u00a0coordinator this fall. She worked previously as an office manager for Kang and Associates Physical Therapy Inc. of Ventura, California, from 2005 to 2013. Prior to that, she was director of conference services for the C.S. Lewis Foundation of Redlands, California, in 2003. Michelle earned a bachelor of business administration degree in economics from Georgia State University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s J. Mack Robinson College of Business in 2000. She lives in Newberg with\u00c2\u00a0Daniel Kang, an assistant professor in the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doctor of physical therapy program, and their three daughters, Lauren, Claire and Grace.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Christy-Smith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48068\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Christy-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"260\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>The library on the Newberg campus has hired\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Christy Smith<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0as a part-time public service library assistant. For the past year she volunteered at Homeward Bound Pets, an animal shelter in McMinnville. She also volunteered in the past in the Vancouver Public Schools system (2011-12) and at Eisenhower Elementary School (2009-10) in\u00c2\u00a0Vancouver, Washington. Christy lives in McMinnville with\u00c2\u00a0her husband Ken and their children Michael and Jasmine. The family attends Family Life Church.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Anna-Sophia-Ziton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48069\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.georgefox.edu\/ennounce\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Anna-Sophia-Ziton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"260\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>The university welcomes <strong>Anna Sophia Ziton<\/strong> as an executive assistant in the president\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s office. For the past two years she has worked as the head secretary for the Woodburn Academy of Art, Science &amp; Technology in Woodburn, Oregon, where she did both clerical work and helped organize major events. Previously, she did some voice acting work in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and was an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher in Moscow, Russia, in 2014-15. She also taught Spanish and Russian as an assistant teacher in Kenyon College\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Department of Modern Languages and Literature from 2011 to 2014. Anna Sophia earned a bachelor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s degree in modern languages and literature from Kenyon College in Ohio in 2014. She lives in Woodburn and attends St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in Beaverton.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After nearly 11 years working directly with alumni and donors,\u00c2\u00a0<strong>Robby Larson<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0is leaving George Fox to become the vice president of advancement at Multnomah University in Portland. In parting, he shared these thoughts: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Serving the George Fox community for this past decade has been a true privilege. I am immensely grateful for all the incredible alumni and friends who support this place. It&#8217;s exciting to think of how God might work through each of these people to impact the next 125 years\u00c2\u00a0at George Fox.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Robby\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last day at George Fox is Thursday, Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ashley Walker<\/strong> (MBA Programs Coordinator) is leaving George Fox on Oct. 11. 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