Linda Beane-Boose, Dean of Humanities at SFCC since 2016, has enjoyed a career in higher education which spans thirty years, including positions as director of faculty development, founding director of academic service-learning, and founding director of language services for the Center for International Education at St. Norbert College, De Pere, Wisconsin. She has experience in faculty development and mentorship, pedagogical innovation, enhancing institutional mission, accreditation, and administration. Linda has held leadership positions in the Professional and Organizational Development Network for Higher Education which focuses on faculty development. She completed a BA from the College of Wooster before earning her Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Linda’s favorite thing about being dean is working together with dedicated faculty and staff to advance the mission of SFCC. She loves collaborating with others to better serve students, faculty, and the community. In her spare time, Linda enjoys cooking, gardening, wine tasting, cross-training, and biking, hiking and cross-country skiing in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

Paqk^wk^wsm (Elicia Allen)

Paqk^wk^wsm is passionate about indigenous language revitalization. They graduated from Eastern Washington University with a Bachelor's Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies. They enjoy reading, creating bead work, and spending time with their community.

Born and raised in France, Eddy Cuisinier first studied English language & culture while in France, where he obtained his BA at the Universit de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. In 2001, he moved to the US and became a Teaching Assistant in French at SFCC from 2001 to 2003. He then obtained an MA in French Literature, Language and Culture at the University of Illinois in Chicago. Eddy taught language and culture classes in different parts of the US before coming back to SFCC as the Instructor of French.
Eddy is a big proponent of study abroad and has lead programs in France, Belgium, Germany and Quebec.
When away from work, he likes to travel, cook and bake bread.

Harumi is a native Japanese who has lived in the United States for 17 years studying and working. Harumi is working on her Masters in Teaching (MIT) at Gonzaga University. During the MIT program, she also taught first and second-year Japanese to Gonzaga students. Previously, Harumi taught Japanese as an adjunct at Whitworth University for five years.

Harumi has also had experience teaching young children at Moran Prairie Elementary School and Adams elementary school for the After School World Language Program. In addition, she taught in the Japanese language & art/culture at Concordia Language Villages, Minnesota in the summer of 2022.

Harumi earned an M.A. degree in graphic design and graduated Summa Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in graphic design at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Harumi incorporates her graphic design experience to make her teaching style very visual. Outside of her classes, she demonstrates her art and culture in public by doing name writing in Japanese, black ink art, and Japanese traditional dance.

Harumi is excited to join SFCC as she writes, “I believe that learning a language is not only about gaining skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking but also learning new perspectives, understanding other people’s thinking styles and discovering one’s own identity by realizing how differences can be beautiful and how cultural worlds can be unique.”

Gabriel Valenzuela teaches all the beginning and intermediate sections of Spanish at SFCC. Gabriel earned an MA from the University of Oregon in Spanish and Italian Languages and Literature with a focus on 16th century Spanish Iberian Literature and Medieval Italian and Renaissance Literature. He established a study abroad program to Perugia, Italy at a previous CC and now oversees the CCS Salamanca, Spain summer study abroad program

Gabriel enjoys outdoor pursuits in the majestic Pacific NW with his wife and children. One day he dreams of becoming a viticulturalist and planting here in the "Inland Empire".