RECOVERY AND SUPPORT

SAST Members
Lisa Broek | Keith Edwards | Cindy Haarstad | Robin Hart Ruthenbeck | Laura Klunder
Eily Marlow | Sedric McClure | Denise Ward | Jaine Strauss | Alina Wong

Lisa Broek, Associate Director of Health and Wellness Center for Health Promotion
broek@macalester.edu, 651-696-6055
"Nurture your sense of what's possible, we cannot create what we cannot imagine." Lucille Clifton
• Educational Background: BA, Central College, Pella, IA double major in biology and sociology MA, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA education with health promotion emphasis
• Personal Interests: Eating at neighborhood restaurants, running outdoors around the city lakes, reading fiction, being active with my two sons ages 13 and 11 - downhill skiing, ice-skating, swimming at local lakes, picnics at local beaches, volunteer history tutor at Anthony Middle School, Minneapolis
•Professional Memberships: American College Health Association, Society of Public Health Educators - Minnesota chapter, American Cancer Society speaker's bureau

Keith E. Edwards, Director of Campus Life
kedward2@macalester.edu, 651-696-6323
"We should never separate the lives we live from the words we speak." Paul Wellstone
• Educational Background: BA, Social Studies with Education Minor License, Hamline University; MS, Student Affairs & Higher Education, Colorado State University Ph.D., College Student Personnel Administration, University of Maryland - College Park
• Interests: Social justice, college men's issues, triathlons, basketball, movies, music, and good tv shows
• Professional Memberships: American College Personnel Association (ACPA); Advisory Board - Men Can Stop Rape College Affiliate Program

Consuelo Gutierrez-Crosby, Student Leadership Coordinator, Civic Engagement Center
gutierrezcrosby@macalester.edu, 651-696-6363
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." Harold R. McAlindon
• Educational Background: BA Macalester College International Studies/Sociology; MPP Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs Non-profit Management and Social Policy
• Interests: Playing with my two small children, Swimming, Tennis, Walking my two Siberian Huskies, Sewing, Cross Country Skiing, Cooking
• Professional Memberships: Professionals of Color Commission; Jean Lyle Children's Center Parent Board Campus Programming Committee; Bonner Foundation School Network; West Side Safe Neighborhood Council; Early Childhood Family Education

Cindy Haarstad, Director of Campus Center & Conferences
chaarsta@macalester.edu, 651-696-6259
“If you lose, remember the lesson. Work hard, play hard.”
• Educational Background: BS, Psychology & Applied Psychology, Bemidji State University (MN); MAE, College & University Student Services, University of Northern Iowa
• Interests: Hiking, watching wildlife (birds & animals), working out, reading, watching movies, listening to music, and hanging out with family and friends.
• Professional Memberships: Association of College Unions International (ACUI), Association of Collegiate Conference & Event Directors International (ACCED-I), National Association of Campus Card Users (NACCU)

Robin Hart Ruthenbeck, Associate Director for Campus Programs
rhartrut@macalester.edu, 651-696-6874
“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” - Joel Barker
• Educational Background: Ed.D., Educational Policy and Administration (in progress) University of Minnesota; M.S., College Student Personnel Services, Miami University; B.Phil, Interdisciplinary Studies, Miami University
• Interests: Community Engagement, reading, beading
• Professional Affiliations: American College Personnel Association (ACPA), National Orientation Directors Association (NODA), National Association for Campus Activities (NACA), Association of College Unions International (ACUI)

Laura Klunder, Assistant Director of Campus Programs for Leadership & Social Justice
lklunder@macalester.edu, 651-696-6311
“A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are built for.” John A. Shedd
• Educational Background: BS, Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison; MS, Social Work, University of Wisconsin Madison
• Interests: social justice, art, literature, poetry, politics, writing letters, eating dessert, being a homebody
• Professional Memberships: National Association of Social Workers

Eily Marlow, Lilly Program Associate
marlow@macalester.edu, 651-69-6738
“When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” Audre Lorde
• Educational Background: BA, Religious Studies and Communication Studies, Macalester College, Masters of Divinity, McCormick Theological College Beginning a Masters of Social Work
• Interests: My advocacy and community work has been in reproductive justice, HIV/AIDS, LGBT justice, addiction recovery and immigration.
• Professional Memberships: Presbyterian Minister Board Member, Westminster Counseling Center; Co-Moderator, That All May Freely Serve - A national faith-based LGBT advocacy organization; Board Member, Westminster Town Hall Forum

Sedric McClure, Multicultural Counselor, MAX Center
mcclure@macalester.edu, 651-696-6014
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."--Frederick Douglass
• Educational Background: BA in Political Science from Southwest Minnesota State University
• Personal Interests: I like to read, follow politics, and play golf. I also like to spend quality time with my family and friends.

Denise Ward, Associate Dean for Student Services
ward@macalester.edu, 651-696-6385
"Let your life speak", Quaker saying, paraphrased by Parker Palmer
• Educational Background: BA, Pyschology, Coe College; MA, Student Development in Postsecondary Education, University of Iowa
• Interests: gardening, archaeological excavations in Greece, photography, camping/canoeing
• Professional Memberships: National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, American College Personnel Association, American College Health Association, National Association of Colleges and Employers (other regional and state memberships for college health and career development)

Wendy Weber, Faculty member, Political Science Department,
weberw@macalester.edu, 651-696-6653

Jaine Strauss, Professor of Psychology
strauss@macalester.edu, 651-696-6114
• Educational Background: BA, Swarthmore College (1980), PhD, University of Rochester (1985)
• Interests: Indiscriminate and avid consumer of music, movies, and books; pottery; dog parks; family time
• Professional memberships: American Psychological Association, American Psychological Society, Society for the Psychology of Women, Society for Community Research and Action, Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy

Alina Wong, Assistant Director of the Lealtad-Suzuki Center
awong3@macalester.edu, 651-696-6652
" You can earn money but you cannot be happy or satisfied unless you first become yourself." Vine Deloria Jr.
• Educational Background: Ph.D. (in process) -- Higher Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; MA -- History, University of New Mexico; BA -- History and Spanish, Amherst College
• Personal Interests: Reading, Knitting, Cooking, Shoes, Social Justice and Anti-Oppression Work
• Professional Memberships: American College Personnel Association, American Educational Research Association, Social Justice Training Institute