Highlighting the amazing Administration, Faculty, Classified Professionals, and Students that make up our pirate family.
This month's highlights include:
Matthew Xavier Cortez (ASVC officer), Samuel Martinez (Plumber), Steve Turner (Instructor EAC), and Jennifer Kalfsbeek-Goetz (VP of Academic Affairs and Student Learning)
Name: Matthew Xavier Cortez
Role at VC: VC Associated Students - Director of Finance
Major: Biology
Years at VC: 2nd year
Family life: Two older brothers and I’m 1st Gen in my family.
Hobbies: Video games, hiking, listening to music, watching anime, cooking, baking, and listening to rain fall.
Favorite Food: My Mom’s Cooking
Favorite Movie: The Accountant
Favorite Song: Slide by Calvin Harris
Something Fun, interesting, and/ or unique about you: I have a scar close to my right eye. I am left handed. I am planning to be a Forensic Scientist.
Name: Samuel Martinez
Primary role at the College: Plumber
Years of Service: 1 Year
Family: 4
Hobbies: Hiking +Fishing
Favorite Food: sushi + pasta
Favorite Movie: The Fugitive
Favorite Song: Hotel California
Something fun, interesting, and/or unique about you: love the outdoors +camping
Name: Steve Turner
Primary role at the college: Instructor EAC
Years of Service: 22
Family: Partner/Wife Rolanda, Sons Matthew (20) & Michael (19), and Daughter Stephanie (14)
Hobbies: Biking, Volunteering, Hiking, (Slow) Running, and water sports
Favorite Food: Pizza (No anchovies or meat please)
Favorite Movie: Tie: Big Lebowski / Casablanca
Favorite Song: Tie: Talking Heads, Life During Wartime / Radiohead, Fake Plastic Trees
Something fun, interesting, and/or unique about you: I am an orphan/adoptee, an adopted parent, and an advocate for diverse families, as it does take a village.
Name: Jennifer Kalfsbeek-Goetz
Primary role at the College: Vice President of Academic Affairs and Student Learning
Years at VC: 3 years and 3 months as VPAA, I also taught Sociology and Psychology as an Adjunct from 2011-2014
Family: Husband - Jack Goetz, Daughter - Elena Moreno-Kalfsbeek, Bonus Daughter - Rachelle Goetz, Bonus Son - Jason Goetz. Mother - Marsha Kalfsbeek, Father - Lee Kalfsbeek.
Hobbies: Stand Up Paddle Boarding (SUP), traveling and hiking with Jack, sewing, and going to musicals and Dodger games!
Favorite food: cheese!
Favorite Movie: The Color Purple
Favorite Song: I Hope You Dance
Something unique or interesting about you: My 24-year-old daughter Elena was born in Spain, and I lived and worked in Spain when she was very young. Elena has dual citizenship in Spain and the U.S.