Entered Pacifica: 2000

Current Occupation:  Assistant Professor of Education -

Mount St. Mary's College, Department Chair

Where You Live: Los Angeles, CA

What Brought You To Pacifica?

I missed studying psychology as I moved into my teaching job.

How Has Your Pacifica Degree Served You Professionally In Your Occupation/Vocation?

The letters after my name allowed me to move into a professorship...and the content of the program has offered me a wonderful perspective that seeps into my courses and writing.

How Has Your Degree Served You Personally?

I have additional wells of wisdom upon which to draw to help me move through my life.

What Was The Meaningful Or Memorable Part Of The Pacifica Experience For You?

Perhaps my most outstanding memory is of the wonderful partnership created between myself and Heidi, a friend in my cohort. We helped each other through our dissertation process week by week and ended up doing our defenses on exactly the same day.

Dissertation Title

Friends, teachers, witnesses, healers: Whiteness and cross-race friendship

Other Publications

My dissertation has been reworked. With five new chapters and four revised chapters I have recently completed my first book:

Witnessing Whiteness: First Steps Toward an Antiracist Practice and Culture

For more information about the book --- full preface and introduction available --- please visit the book's website ---www.witnessingwhiteness.com

Areas of Interest

Racial Identity and Antiracism Practice, Cross-race Alliance Building

=== Specifically, in depthy terms, I'm looking at how racial identity development is part of our Individuation process and how it benefits our ability to be more conscious in our relationships.

Contact Information

shelly@witnessingwhiteness.com

stochluk@msmc.la.edu

Shelly Tochluk,  Ph.D.