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

Vera Fainshtein
Title: Professor, Graphic Design
Degrees: B.A. in Design, UCLA; M.F.A. in Digital Media Art, SJSU (CADRE Lab for New Media)
Teaching Experience: Since 2007
Career Highlights: I am a practicing artist with over fifteen years of experience in video and graphic design. I designed print materials and DVD Menu screens for clients such as Warner Brothers, Rhino Records, 20th Century Fox, Universal, and Columbia Pictures. My large-scale interactive video installations have been exhibited in numerous galleries and venues including the Nature Conservancy in Arlington, VA, the Zero1Biennial of contemporary art in San Jose, California, and many others.
Hobbies: Art, travel, learning about other cultures and foreign languages
Quote: “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Donna Eyestone
Title: Instructor
Degrees: M.F.A., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; M.F.A., Mills College Center for Contemporary Music; B.A., Clark University
Teaching Experience: Since 1996
Career Highlights: Innovator in online teaching and learning, multimedia content producer at Apple
Hobbies: First violin in Oakland Community Orchestra, Director of Alameda Education Foundation String Ensemble, private violin teacher, radio producer of The Edge of Music for KACR
Quote: "Think first about the thing that is right to do, think later about dealing with your fears.” 
– Barbara Deming

Nico van Dongen
Title: Instructor
Degrees: M.F.A., Photography, Royal Academy of Visual Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
Teaching Experience: Since 1992
Career Highlights: Founder of portfolio pilots, creative consulting; internationally published and student awards; Adobe achievement award and ADDY awards.
Hobbies: Cooking and entertaining. playing guitar, camping, playing soccer and tennis, all of the arts
Quote: "Designers are catalysts of their time; their role is to translate the changes, the mutations and evolution of society." – Jean Paul Gaultier

Pantea Karimi
Title: Adjunct Faculty, Graphic Design
Degrees: M.A., Graphic Design and M.A., Fine Arts
Teaching experience: Since 2005 in the USA
Career highlights: Professional artist: She has exhibited nationally and internationally in various venues. Teacher and graphic designer: while residing in England from 2001 to 2005, she taught computer graphics programs for the Education Action Zone, an educational innovation and technology information-based organization. Since 2005 in the United States, she has designed arts and architecture catalogs (thresholds 32: ACCESS) for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and San Jose State University; since 2012, she has been teaching and contributing to the development of new digital media and graphic design courses for the Euphrat Museum of Art’s art & design programs at De Anza College.
Hobbies: traveling, dancing, hiking and learning French 
Quote: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”-Albert Einstein

Hanns Ullrich
Title: Assistant Professor
Degrees: B.A., Filmmaking, San Francisco State University
Teaching Experience: Since 2018
Career Highlights: Broadcast Engineer for KCSM TV from 1996 to 2017, where he served as Videographer, Technical Director, Camera Operator, Lighting Director, and Production Engineer for KCSM’s studio and remote productions. When KCSM transitioned to Digital Broadcast, he oversaw and constructed the new Master Control center. During his time at KCSM, he worked freelance jobs on remote field shoots for PBS shows such as Internet Café and Computer Chronicles. When SMCCD sold the TV station in 2017, he became the full-time Radio Engineer for KCSM FM. In 2018, he joined the Digital Media Department and enjoys teaching Digital Video Production.
Hobbies: Cooking, Photography, Restoring old FIATs and going on long road trips.
Quote: “If you aren’t having fun, you are doing it wrong.” – Jordan Peele