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Title: Biographies
The Writing Center consultants are a group of individuals with different levels of education and from a variety of disciplines of study. Each consulatnat is a student and therefore a peer of the students who seek assistance from The Writing Center. In addition to meeting the necessary requirements for tutoring eligibility, the consultants at the The Writing Center are involved in continuous training in tutoring and composition.

Tutors / Writing Consultants in The Writing Center at LAVC Winter 2010

image of a pair of glasses Tatevik Aleksayan joined The Writing Center in Fall 2008. She is currently a student at LAVC and majoring in Math and Biology.

image of a pair of glasses Andrea Barrera joined The Writing Center in Fall 2009. She is currently a student at LAVC and majoring in Speech Communications. She is an active member of the Speech and Debate Team at LAVC.

image of a pair of glasses Holly Batty joined The Writing Center in Spring 2006. She graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in English and serves as a tutor coordinator in The Writing Center. She will be attending graduate school in the fall.

image of a pair of glasses Sahag Gureghian joined The Writing Center Staff in Fall 2009. He has a B.A. in Creating Writing and Screenwriting. He is currently finishing an MFA in creative writing with an emphasis in fiction.

image of a pair of glasses Nicholas Gutierrez joined The Writing Center Staff in 2003. He graduated from CSUN with his B.A. in Biology and now serves as a tutor coordinator for The Writing Center. He will be attending graduate school in the spring.

image of a pair of glasses Oscar Leiva joined The Writing Center in Fall 2008. He is currently a student at CSUN, majoring in English, and he also works as a tutor in the Learning Center at Valley College.

image of a pair of glasses  Dwayne Melendez joined The Writing Center in summer 2008. He is currently a student at LAVC and majoring in Philosophy. He is an active member of the Speech and Debate Team at LAVC.

image of a pair of glassesAnand "Andy" Ramachandran received his B.A. in English from the University of Colorado, Boulder. His major author was Shakespeare, and he is interested in Gothic and Victorian literature and detective fiction.

image of a pair of glassesJesse Richardson joined The Writing Center in Fall 2007. He is currently pursuing a Political Science major at UCLA and also tutors at the Trio office at LAVC.

image of a pair of glassesJasmine Shambtoob joined The Writing Center in Winter 2010. She is currently a Bio-chemistry major at LAVC.

image of a pair of glassesKat Sdao joined The Writing Center in Fall 2009. She is currently majoring in Philosophy and English at LAVC.

image of a pair of glassesNicole Valdez joined The Writing Center in Fall 2004. She has a B.A. in Sociology from CSUN and is completing her M.S. in Counseling and Guidance at CLU.

image of a pair of glasses Kristina Yegoryan joined The Writing Center as a tutor in the Spring Semester 2005. She is a full time student at CSUN who is working on a M.A. in English.