I am so very excited to be reentering the realms of higher education after having been on leave raising my two young sons. I have worked in a variety of departments across several institutions including Admissions, Student Affairs, teaching a First Year Seminar course, and most recently conducting academic advising in the Office of Global Studies at PLNU.
Karen Seehaus is fond of saying that writing and education are the loves of her professional life. Karen enjoys working with talented students and considers engaging with students at PLNU to be a privilege. When she is able to shift a student’s perspective to give them confidence and agency in their own writing, she is personally delighted.
Dr. Carsten Hennings joined the Fermanian School of Business (FSB) in 2018 as an associate professor of management. He came to PLNU with 17 years of experience working internationally for different professional organizations, as well as teaching for various universities. Specifically, Hennings worked as an Institutional Bond Salesman and Bond Market Researcher for CTI Capital Inc. in Montreal and Toronto.
Margarita Pintado Burgos was born and raised in a small rural town from Puerto Rico. After finishing a bachelor’s degree in communications at the University of Puerto Rico, she started her graduate studies at Emory University, Atlanta, where she obtained her Ph.D. in Spanish. Pintado's work and teaching combines her interests of language, poetry, creative writing, exile, and feminism. After teaching for 6 years at Ouachita Baptist University, a liberal arts college in a small town from Arkansas, Margarita joined the LJWL faculty at Point Loma Nazarene University in 2017.
Robbie Maakestad grew up in Indianapolis, IN, before attending Taylor University for undergrad, Ball State University for an MA in Writing, and George Mason University for an MFA in Writing (Nonfiction). He is working on two books—a history of the City of David Archaeological site in Jerusalem (nonfiction) and a collection of short stories about Bill Murray (fiction). Robbie is Senior Editor at The Rumpus.
I was born in Mexico City, Mexico and then I moved to San Diego when I was only six years old. I completed my elementary, middle, and high school education in San Diego before moving to Orange County where I lived for ten years! While there, I attended Biola University to complete both my Bachelor's and Master's degree. I moved back to San Diego in 2016, and let me tell you, there's no place like it!
