ABOUT US
F.C Luna, Ed.D, Co-Director
Dr. Chuck Luna is a national trainer and consultant who has provided intercultural competency skills training throughout the United States. He has extensive experience as an educator at the elementary, junior high and high school levels, as a middle school counselor and as both a high school principal and assistant principal. Dr. Luna received his Bachelor's Degree in Modern Languages and his Master of Arts Degree in Educational Administration from Colorado State University. He received his Doctor of Education Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Northern Colorado.
Dr. Luna was a professor of educational leadership at Colorado State University for five years where he engaged in research and organizational restructuring. In January, 1992, the Center for Peak Performing Schools released Dr. Luna's video entitled Building Championship Schools . Dr. Luna is a past executive director of the Colorado Hispanic Institute and past Director of the Diversity and Equity Office for the Boulder, Colorado School District. He has provided workshops on intercultural skillfulness and leadership for Sears & Company, American Nurses Association in Washington, D.C., the Denver Mental Health Corporation, county government employees, and realtors. He has also been a keynote speaker, workshop facilitator, and teacher educator on cultural skillfulness for school districts and universities throughout Colorado and the United States. Dr. Luna is currently an adjunct faculty member with Regis University and co-director of the Rocky Mountain Intercultural Institute.
Carol Miller, M.Ed., Co-Director
Ms. Miller's career has focused on working with students who have special needs. She has taught special education classes, tutored academically at-risk students from kindergarten through 12th grades, and developed educational programs in low-income neighborhoods. Ms. Miller is an experienced intercultural trainer and has facilitated workshops on intercultural skillfulness for public schools, universities, public and private non-profit agencies. Ms. Miller received her Bachelor's Degree in Special Education from the University of Northern Colorado and her Master's Degree in Educational Administration from Colorado State University. She is the former director of the Fort Collins Even Start Family Learning Center, a federal program that focuses on early educational intervention for academically at-risk families. Ms. Miller worked for five years as an intercultural community consultant for the College of Applied Human Sciences, Colorado State University's Infusing a Multicultural Perspective into the Higher Education Curriculum project.
Ms. Miller worked with the Colorado Hispanic Institute as a technical consultant and the curriculum writer and trainer for VISIONES, a multicultural leadership development program. She was a program and staff developer for Jacob Center West and Foothills Foster Care, programs for at-risk adolescents and their families. Ms. Miller worked as the development specialist for the Latin American Research and Service Agency (LARASA) in Denver, Colorado where she co-wrote Parenting for Academic Success, a curriculum manual to help parents become stronger supporters of their children's education. She is the author of Mentoring Teens: A Resource Manual, and Intercultural Leadership Skills for Teens. Carol Miller and Chuck Luna are co-directors of the Rocky Mountain Intercultural Institute.
Sherri Luna, M.A., Certified Facilitator
Sherri Luna is a highly successful elementary school teacher in the Boulder Valley Schools where she has taught for 24 years. Ms. Luna received her Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education from the University of Northern Colorado and her Master of Arts Degree in Literacy with a K-12 Reading Endorsement from the University of Colorado in Boulder. She taught first, second, fourth and fifth grade students at Lafayette Elementary and High Peaks Elementary, a Core Knowledge school. She currently teaches first grade at Whittier International, an International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program school, where she is the Whittier Math Leader. Ms. Luna was a finalist for the Impact on Education Award.
Ms. Luna has local, regional, and national experience as a workshop facilitator in the areas of intercultural skillfulness, sheltered instruction, inquiry, mathematics, literacy, and vision setting. She continues to be a sought-after presenter for undergraduate and graduate level classes at Regis University, in Denver, Colorado, a role she has enjoyed for over five years. Sherri has been a positive contributor to the success of the Rocky Mountain Intercultural Institute.
David Brooks, Certified Facilitator
David is an experienced youth and adolescent development counselor. His professional work has included developing programs for youth in a therapeutic residential setting and collaborating with non-profit and faith-based organizations to develop leadership skills for youth in under-resourced neighborhoods. He has provided college and career counseling for high school students and their families and served as a resident manager of Upward Bound students at the University of Hawaii. He graduated from Hawaii Pacific University with a Bachelor's Degree and from Colorado State University with a Master's Degree in Social Work. David is currently the Outreach Coordinator for the Vineyard Church of the Rockies, coordinating programs to provide services and resources to communities in need.
Lorna Greene, Certified Facilitator
Lorna Greene is an early childhood education specialist, with extensive experience working with Native American children in Washington, New Mexico and Colorado. Currently, she is the coordinator for the Early Childhood Professional Development Project with the Larimer County Early Childhood Council. She has a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Elementary Education from George Washington University and a Master of Science Degree in Child and Youth Care Administration from Nova University in Florida.
Lorna was the Program Director of the early childhood and family outreach programs for the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, in Towaoc, Colorado for ten years, Director of the Campus Children’s Center for the University of North Dakota, and an early childhood and ethnic studies instructor for Skagit Valley College in Mt. Vernon, Washington. She was a columnist for the Cardinal Newspaper, Skagit Valley College, writing on the Challenges of Childhood and is a certified vocational technical education instructor.
Lorna is the chairperson for the Loveland, Colorado Human Services Commission, a member of the Loveland Human Rights Committee, and an adjunct faculty member at Front Range Community College, Fort Collins, Colorado campus.
Sarah Kendall, Certified Facilitator
Sarah Kendall has done humanitarian work in Mexico, Puerto Rico, New Orleans and the Pine Ridge Native American Reservation in Custer, South Dakota. She has taken lay counseling courses through the American Association of Christian Counselors and completed her Coach Certification Level I training for administration of the CernySmith Adjustment Index for humanitarian and cross cultural workers. Currently, Sarah is a student at Front Range Community College in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Sarah served an internship in local and international missions for Vineyard Church of the Rockies and was a paraprofessional at Christian Core Academy. She has extensive volunteer experience, working with the humane society, Poudre Valley Hospital, Front Range Exceptional Equestrians, and the Children’s Ministry at the Vineyard Church of the Rockies
Tasha Sjoholm, Facilitator & Administrative Assistant
Tasha Sjoholm became interested in teaching Intercultural Skills through her love of travel; she has traveled extensively throughout the United States, Mexico, the former Soviet Union, as well as several other countries worldwide. Tasha also comes from a multi-cultural family, with a mother of German descent and a father from Mexico. A Culinary School graduate, she developed and even deeper appreciation of cultural difference by exploring traditions that involve food and celebrations. Her work in the hospitality industry has allowed her to work with and for people from amazingly diverse backgrounds. Tasha enjoys making a difference in her community by volunteering for organizations that are important to her.
