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CAE coordinators are graduate assistants that help students navigate these services by assisting them with appointments and establishing contact with peer tutors. Coordinators also administer SSD testing in Reinhardt Bldg., Wing B.
Mia DeBono
MFA in Fiction
Mia is a second year MFA student in fiction. She was born in Canada to Mediterranean émigrés but spent most of her life in the great Northwest. Her work has been published in Clackamas Literary Review, Alt-X, and two NW Edge anthologies: Fiction of Mass Destruction, and The End of Reality. In her “free” time, she reads, she swims, she writes, she mothers. She enjoys cooking large Sunday suppers and is currently working on her first novel.
Adrienne Oliver
MFA in fiction
Adrienne enjoys helping students navigate the academic services available to them at Mills. She is a former composition instructor and experienced retention advocate. It is her first year here at Mills College and first year living in the Bay Area. The Little Rock, AR native obtained a BA in Psychology from Hendrix College and an MA in Professional and Technical Writing from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
Brenda Usher-Caprino
MFA, Fiction
Brenda is enjoying what she calls reverse-retirement. After receiving her BA (UC Berkeley), her MA (Cal State University, Hayward) and her PhD (Stanford University), all in French, she decided to return to school. Before so doing she spent nearly thirty years with her ex-spouse raising their daughter, traveling, studying classical voice and piano, running miles on end through the Oakland-Piedmont hills, figure skating, competing as a veteran race-walker, acting and writing. She has written poetry, short stories, plays, and is currently working on a novel. She is a second year MFA student.
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