Contacts

• B.A., University of Nevada, Reno
• M.A., Long Island University, Brooklyn

Dan Aalbers is completing his doctoral dissertation at York University in Toronto, Ontario. Dan teaches classes in psychology. His interests include historiography, critical psychology, liberation psychology and other emancipatory psychologies. He is currently researching the roles that psychologists have played in the Bush and Obama torture programs.

BA, University of Nevada, Reno; MA, University of Nevada Reno

BA, University of Wyoming; MAT, Sierra Nevada College

• M.S., Physics, Nizhny Novgorod University at Russia
• Ph.D. Astrophysics, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia

Prior to joining the faculty in Sierra Nevada College in fall 2010, for 33 years Altunin worked in the leading space research institutions in Russia and USA, including 3 years in the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena, CA). Altunin’s primary occupation was astronomy, particularly space astronomy. During his professional years he worked as a researcher and later progressed to management at the Russian Physical Institute as a Project manager for a several space astronomy projects. Altunin is an author and coauthor of more than 50 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and several chapters in space related textbooks. In addition to teaching at SNC, Altunin taught a course on Space Science Management at the International Space University (Strasburg, France) in the mid 1990’s. He finds teaching to be quite enjoyable and a logical path after retirement from an “active” space science career.

BA, Rutgers University; MA, Trenton State College; PhD, University of Denver

MA, University of Phoenix, Reno

• B.A., University of New Mexico
• M.Ed., Sierra Nevada College

• BS, Allegheny College
• MA Pacifica Graduate Institute

Axton spent 14 years touring the world as a pianist in Hoyt Axton’s Country Western, Boogie Woogie, Gospel, Rock and Roll Band. She played on 21 albums and co-produced two and appeared on dozens of television shows, including the Tonight Show. She has many writing, arranging and directing credits to her name and has directed, conducted and/or played for scores of local musical productions from community to professional levels. She is also known as a chamber music and solo piano performer.

Sandy Baratta

Sandy Baratta has a background in High Technology, Entrepreneurship and teaching. She was Vice President for Global Alliances at Oracle. In that role, her organization was responsible for a billion dollars in revenue. In addition, she held several sales management positions for Tandem Computers and was a Vice President for PeopleSoft. She is currently managing partner of several real estate investment companies and helps to run the day to day operations of TBIG Market Opportunity Fund, a hedge fund based out of Incline Village, NV. Sandy holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology, a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and an MBA. She taught Business courses at The Pennsylvania State University and De Anza College.

M.A., Nazareth College