Benjamin Omara Abe, (BA, MA, LLD), was born and raised at 3 degrees north and 32 degree east. He is a physical anthropologist. He received his credentials from Carleton College, Washington State University and Faith Grant College.

Omara Abe is widely traveled and is active in the business community. He annually takes students on study and tour programs to Egypt, Kenya and Tanzania.

Bob Atkins received his doctors' degree in Educational and Counseling Psychology from the University of Washington. The Bachelor's and Master's degrees were in Sociology with a minor in Psychology from California State University at Fullerton. He has taught at NSCC for over 35 years. Prior to NSCC he taught at Jamestown College. His academic interests in Sociology are the family and human sexuality. In addition, he has taught courses in Social Theory, Research, Statistics, Psychology, Criminology and Social Problems. Additional experience he draws from for stories in class include his past work at the Adult Development Program and the Sexual Dysfunction Clinic within the Department of Psychiatry - School of Medicine - at the University of Washington in addition to work with the Educational Psychology Clinic at the U.W. and clinical experience at a local mental health facility.

Jim Harnish has been teaching at North Seattle Community College for over 25 years in a variety of curriculum areas. His academic training was in journalism, at Seattle University in 1962; Russian language at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California in 1963-64 and Russian Area Studies at the University of Washington in 1966-69. He has been involved in the development of a nationally recognized interdisciplinary curriculum, called "Coordinated Studies." These courses bring together 3 or 4 faculty from different disciplines to focus their individual discipline perspectives and combine expertise on the study of a problem or issue or questions. The students work with primary sources, great literature, and classic secondary sources in small seminars to discover insights about the issues they are studying. He has done extensive consulting and presented workshops for two and four-year colleges around the country, introducing to them an interdisciplinary, collaborative curriculum. Most recently he was on sabbatical (1995) to study and develop new ways to teach Russian language, history and culture and is in the process of developing a "flex-time" Russian language course, one in which students can study independently, be connected with the teacher by phone or e-mail and only come together for teacher directed sessions when needed. He loves cooking, gardening, cross-country skiing and spending quiet-time at home with his wife.

With degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Marquette University, and presently enrolled in a Masters in Public Health program at the University of Washington, Dr. Kerns is a professor of Philosophy at North Seattle Community College and an adjunct professor at Seattle University. In addition to his regular introductory courses in Philosophy, Ethics, Medical Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, and Logic, he also regularly teaches in Coordinated Studies Programs. He has been awarded grants and sabbaticals to research the HIV/AIDS pandemic, has lectured at the World Health Organization's Global Programme on AIDS in Geneva, and has recently published two books, Ethical Issues in HIV Vaccine Trials (1997, St Martin's Press, Macmillan, Limited in the UK); and Jenner on Trial: The Ethics of Vaccine Research in the Age of Smallpox and the Age of AIDS (1997, University Press of America). His most recent sabbatical was devoted to research and writing about ethical issues and human rights in toxicant induced illnesses, such as Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. Dr. Kerns is a jogger, a semi-professional stone sculptor, an amateur radio operator, and particularly enjoys fly-fishing on trout streams in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and Montana.

Najma Rizvi, a native of Bangladesh is a faculty member of the Social Sciences Division , North Seattle Community College. She holds a Ph.D in anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles and Masters degrees in anthropology and geography from the University of Denver and University of Florida. She has extensive teaching and research experience in promoting cross-cultural understanding both in the U.S. as well as abroad. Her research has focused on hunger, malnutrition and infectious disease in Third World countries and she has worked as a consultant to various International organizations. Her research findings have been published in professional journals and books, and she has presented papers in international meetings, seminars and workshops.

Karen Stuhldreher is a professor of Women Studies and Political Science. She is a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Washington where she also received her Master's Degree. She taught in the Women Studies Program at the U.W. for 7 years and is looking forward to developing an interdisciplinary Women Studies Program here at North Seattle Community College. She teaches feminist and political theory courses as well as women and politics, race, class and gender, global feminism, and introduction to women studies. Her current writing and research project examines the implications of feminist and legal conceptions of sexual harassment in the wake of the Thomas confirmation hearings. She is also studying the effects of historical and cultural representations in shaping public policy and the law.

Donald Trimble was born in San Francisco in 1936 and moved to Washington in 1946. He earned his Bachelor Of Arts in history and economics in 1961 from Central Washington University. After graduation he spent five years in the Navy, spending his last year in Vietnam. He then returned to CWU to obtain a teaching certificate. In 1968 he began graduate work at Western Washington University, and received a M.A. in political science. North Seattle Community College was opening its doors for the first time in the fall of 1970 and he was hired as a part-time instructor teaching political science. Three years later he was hired full time to teach both economics and political science. Since that time he has prepared and taught over fifteen courses, but primarily he teaches macro and microeconomics. He teaches one political science course every quarter --courses with an international prospective. He was a Fullbright Fellow to India in 1987. In 1984 he got married and began a family. Also he retired from the Naval Reserve (Rank of Commander) that same year. In the mid 1990s he is happily married and the proud father of two boys. He is active in Cub Scouts, baseball coaching and his church.