Patti Appel
Title: Professor, Graphics
Degrees: B.A., Santa Clara University; M.F.A., UCLA
Teaching Experience: Since 1990
Career Highlights: After 15 years in another career, CSM facilitated and supported my career transition into graphic design. The highlight of my professional life was to return to CSM as a professor to give back to this great college the opportunity I was given. To see my students successfully find their career path is the most gratifying experience of all.
Hobbies: Acting, singing and watercolor painting.
Quote: "Creativity, like human life itself, begins in darkness." – Julia Cameron

Diana Bennett
Title: Professor, Multimedia
Degrees: M.A., CSU East Bay; B.A., CSU East Bay; A.A., Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising: Certificate of Online Teaching and Learning
Teaching experience: Since 1999
Career highlights: Academic Senate President
Hobbies: Golf, gardening, water sports
Quote: "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." – Maya Angelou

Michelle M. Brown
Title: Associate Professor, Broadcast & Electronic Media
Degrees: M.A., San Francisco State University; B.A., Central Michigan University
Teaching experience: Since 2004
Career highlights: 2010 Cinépoem Arts Award, Berkeley Video & Film Festival; 2010 Sacramento International Film Festival; 2008 Emmy Foundation Fellow, Academy of Televisions Arts & Sciences; 2008 Finalist, Masterminds Arts Competition, SF Weekly
Hobbies: Digital filmmaking, hockey fan, voice acting, stand up comedy
Quote: “Don’t hate the media, become the media.” – Jello Biafra

Sam Sanchez
Title: Associate Professor
Degrees: Certified Pro Tools Music Operator; Certificate, San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking; Honorable Discharge United States Navy
Teaching experience: Since 1993
Career highlights: Being here teaching digital audio recording and digital filmmaking
Hobbies: Halo, Soul Calibur, hiking, photography, & parenting
Quote: "Have a good time all the time." – Viv Savage

Ed Seubert
Title: Professor, Digital Media
Degrees: A.A., College of San Mateo
Teaching experience: Since 1971
Career highlights: To have devoted the majority of my professional life to helping others.
Hobbies: Avid autodidact, compulsive consumer of nonfiction, hiking the Sierras, exercising my creativity in a wide variety of ways, enjoying time with my two children.
Quote: "I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." – John Muir

Jeff Severtson
Title: Adjunct Professor, Digital Video
Degrees: M.A., New York University, B.A., UC Irvine
Teaching experience: Since 1994
Career highlights: Executive Producer of Video, Adobe Systems, Inc., Feature Film editor - Banana Brothers, directed by Girija Shankar
Hobbies: Reading, gaming, & gardening
Quote: "A photograph is always invisible. It is not it that we see." – Roland Barthes

Claudia Steenberg
Title: Adjunct Professor, Graphics
Degrees: B.A. and M.A., University of California, Berkeley
Teaching Experience: Since 1973
Career Highlights: Fulbright Scholar, Warsaw, Poland; New York Art Directors Club Annual Award, Editorial; Los Angeles Art Directors Annual Award, Publication Design; Ozzie Bronze Award, Best Overall Design, consumer magazine; Washington Software Association, Best Magazine Cover Design Award; seeing my CSM students achieve professional success.
Hobbies: Walks on the coast, observing the changing colors, family time.
Quote: “You can accomplish anything if you put your mind to it.” – My father

Randy Tan
Title: Adjunct Faculty
Degrees: M.A., San Francisco State University

Hans Ullrich
Title: IT Support Technician III

John Hall
Title: IT Support Technician III