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JULIET SALAZAR Age 29
Juliet moved to L.A. from Ecuador in the mid 90s. She
immediately set to the task of learning English and earning her high school
diploma. Her family encouraged her to come to GCC, and she attended classes
here from ’96–99 as a business major. With encouragement from math
instructor Sid Kolpas, she entered the AMP Program, and not only loved it
but had fun too! After that she became hooked on math and cites math
instructor and Scholars advisor Gary Massion, math instructor Carol Paxton
and Kolpas as her mentors. She later assisted Dr. Kolpas with the AMP summer
program.
Juliet had planned on transferring to CSUN, but her husband’s UCLA ties “won
out” and she chose to atttend UCLA where she received her Bachelors degree
in Applied Mathematics, Economics, and Computer Science. She is continuing
her studies at UCLA and concurrently working on her Masters and a Ph.D.
Juliet believes strongly in the merits of the AMP Program. She thoroughly
enjoyed her experience teaching GCC’s AMP summer program in ’03. Her dream
is to teach and inspire an enthusiasm for mathematics in others. She was
glad to have “discovered” her passion here at GCC, and will be returning in
spring ’04 to teach an intermediate algebra class. |
