Audrey Fischer began her role as a Faculty Academic Advisor here at Shoreline in July 2015. Audrey has a M.A. in Policy and Organizational Leadership Studies from the Stanford Graduate School of Education and a B.A. in Psychology and International Relations from Gonzaga University. Before coming to Shoreline, she served as an academic advisor for transfer students at Bellevue College where she led the campus-wide Advising Committee and taught First Year Experience classes for domestic and international students. Audrey also worked as a middle school teacher at Todd County on the Rosebud Reservation in Mission, South Dakota for three years. While there, she worked on math and social studies curriculum development for the district and coached 7^th grade volleyball.

Audrey enjoys spending time with her parents in Salem, Oregon and with her two younger sisters (Rachel in Seattle and Maggie in San Diego). In her free time she loves to hike all over the Northwest, do crossword puzzles in pen, block shots in pick-up basketball, and play trumpet in an all-teacher rock band.

Joyce Fagel has been in a shared advising position with Shoreline Community College and the University of Washington for the past 17 years, in recent years spending 50% time on each campus. Well, now she is working for Shoreline Community College full-time, finally. She is very excited to be part of the current growth of advising and student support staff and programs on campus.

As a general academic advisor, she will work with professional/technical and transfer students to get started in college, understand the college system, and help plan how academic and career goals can be attained. She will continue to be a resource on U of Washington information as well as advising for health, science, engineering and related programs.

Joyce was once a pre-medical school student, then studied one year of physical therapy before she settled on a psychology major at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. After that, she completed a Master’s Degree in Counseling and Student Personnel Psychology at the University of Minnesota. Now, she has been advising pre-health and science students for many years, so she is able to combine all her interests!

Joyce was born and grew up in the Netherlands and came to the United States as an international college student. At that time, she met a young man, an immigrant student from Hong Kong, and they have been partners ever since. That is now a long time ago; you can make some guesses as to how long. Some of you saw Joyce years ago when she brought her oldest with her to the Parent-Child Center. Her son is now a second-year student at the U of Washington! Her daughter is an 11^th grader at Ingraham High School. Joyce also has two cats, Tabby and Java.

Joyce lives about a mile from campus in North Seattle, and she likes to walk to campus. She also enjoys Shoreline’s yoga and Zumba classes. Other favorite activities are reading and knitting. Joyce is on the Community Read committee and encourages everyone to read and participate with this year’s amazing book: Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Activists.