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 LaQuinta Roberts, MSN-Ed., R.N., earned the designation of Expert Nurse in her most recent hospital role. With over 25 years of acute care nursing experience, she has also served as a mentor and preceptor to fellow nurses. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 2014, graduating summa cum laude, and went on to complete her Master of Science in Nursing Education from Purdue Global University in 2018.

Mrs. Roberts, an MDCC alumni, has served as a leader to countless new nurses, providing clinical guidance and professional support at the bedside. While she has some formal teaching experience, much of her educational impact has come through hands-on mentorship within clinical settings.

With both humility and enthusiasm, she embraces her teaching roles, always promoting educational and clinical excellence. Passionate about empowering future generations of nurses through education, she believes in the transformative power of public schools and colleges to shape minds and strengthen communities.

Inspired by Nelson Mandela’s words, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” she is dedicated to fostering growth through knowledge.

Dr. Semcheski joined the CFK faculty full-time in August of 2020, following working as an adjunct since 2016. After earning undergraduate degrees in Biology and Marine Science at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Semcheski earned a master's degree in Biology from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. His thesis focused on the molecular phylogenetics of the snapper family of fishes (Lutjanidae). He remained at Old Dominion University for his doctoral work of examining diversity trends and community composition of benthic and planktonic microalgae of the lower Chesapeake Bay. Throughout his time in graduate school, Dr. Semcheski worked in the Phytoplankton Analysis Laboratory at Old Dominion, carrying out phytoplankton assessment projects for the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program, Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, Virginia Department of Health, and numerous other studies throughout the mid-Atlantic, Central America, and Europe. Upon beginning his full-time employment at CFK in 2020, Dr. Semcheski was tasked with developing the curriculum for and delivering courses in the new Bachelor of Science in Marine Resource Management degree program. Since then, Dr. Semcheski has taught the following courses: Marine Conservation, Marine Socioeconomics, Nearshore and Offshore Ecology and Assessment, Forensic Marine Science, Marine Resource Economics, Marine Policy and Management, Geographic Information Systems, Coastal and Estuarine Ecology, Seminar in Marine Resource Management, MRM Capstone Course, Oceanography, Marine Biology, and Marine Data Collection.

Amber Severson enjoys working with students and teaching mathematics at 爱游戏体育. She has a background in Mathematics Education and Teacher Preparation. She earned a master’s and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics Education from Bemidji University and completed graduate work was at the University of Minnesota.

Before teaching at CFK, Amber taught at Southwest Texas Junior College and at Anoka-Ramsey Community College, among other universities and high schools in Minnesota.

Mrs. Severson enjoys cooking and spending time with her family.

Jesus (Jesse) Vazquez is the Founder and CEO of J.A.N. Consulting Group, Inc. http://www.jancg.com/; a boutique consulting firm focused on the Foodservice industry. Previously, Dr. Vazquez owned and operated several high-volume restaurants, a catering company, and a management company. He is a former Senior Business Analyst for Brickell Opportunity Partners, a venture capital firm, and mentor and workshop presenter for SCORE.

Dr. Vazquez has counseled industry professionals on leadership and improving operational and financial performance. He is an accomplished, resourceful, and versatile business executive with 30+ years of experience in multi-unit business operations, leadership development, high-performance team coaching, research processes, and the hiring and training of staff for the successful management of high-visibility, high-volume business operations.

Teaching Philosophy:

Fyodor Dostoevsky writes in The Brothers Karamazov, "[T]he sacrifice of life is, perhaps, the easiest of all sacrifices in many cases, while to sacrifice, for example, five or six years of their ebulliently youthful life to hard, difficult studies, to learning, in order to increase tenfold their strength to serve the very truth and the very deed that they loved and set out to accomplish - such sacrifice is quite often almost beyond the strength of many of them." This sacrifice is one that each of our students is making. The way that students learn to use language is the cornerstone of their success in all disciplines; it is for this reason, after all, that composition is a prerequisite. Their success in this facet of their leaning is my job, my contribution toward this sacrifice. To expose students to the richness of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, to show them how to get close to a text, is one of the most exciting parts of my job. When I can lead students to see the power and purpose their writing can have and help them to see how they can best utilize that power and that purpose, then we have done our job in our classroom community.