GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION - FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2019 Commencement Address Doreen Dodgen-Magee, Psy.D. DOREEN DODGEN-MAGEE is a clinical psychologist, speaker, and author of the award-winning Deviced! Balancing Life and Technology in a Digital World. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Time magazine. She is a reluctant “geek,” spending inordinate amounts of time interacting with scholarly research, tech trends, and pop culture around the topic of technology and how the digital domain is shaping us. She is passionate (truly..passionate!!) about engaging people around this topic and that passionate energy pours forth regardless of who she is with. Doreen is passionate about helping people live rich, complex, wild, embodied lives with technology as a side, not main, dish. Doreen loves going barefoot, black coffee, the color red, dancing, documentaries, and people. Especially people. Her work can be found at doreendm.com Senior Marshal Yer J. Thao, Ph.D. DR. YER J. THAO is a member of an oral tradition and a pioneer print culture scholar from the Mong culture. He has been with the Curriculum and Instruction Department in the College of Education since fall 2002. He teaches multicultural, cross- cultural, bilingual education and current issues in education and society. His research interests include ethnic identitybilingual and multicultural teacher training, linguistic diversity and oral tradition. He believes culture is a treasure to us and wants it to be infused into daily teaching and learning practices. Dr. Thao is committed to helping people learn to trust one another by instilling appreciation of the different cultures in our community. He enjoys helping others make connections between oral and written traditions. For example, one of his most recent research about Taiwan Aboriginal culture during his Taiwan fellowship in Taiwan serve as a bridging culture between modern and oral tradition. Dr. Thao was a former elementary education teacher with a K-8 teaching credential. He received his BA degree from Humboldt State University, a master’s degree in bilingual and multicultural education from California State University Monterey Bay and a PhD in education from Claremont Graduate University. 6
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