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Louisiana Campus Compact
SLU 10550
237 North Campus Main Building
Hammond, LA. 70402
985 549-2496
985 549 2497 fax
www.selu.edu/lcc

lacampuscompact@selu.edu

Staff

Stuart Stewart, Ph.D., Executive Director

Stuart Stewart has served as Executive Director of Louisiana Campus Compact since August 2006. In this capacity, she leads the Louisiana Campus Compact Office and works with the LaCC Executive Board and members to further the mission of Louisiana Campus Compact through expanding current initiatives in service-learning and civic engagement.

Stuart was a faculty member at Southeastern Louisiana University in the Foreign Languages Department prior to joining LaCC. As a faculty member, she developed a service-learning course in Spanish where students worked with Spanish-speaking residents in the Hammond and Baton Rouge areas and incorporated service-learning into the Costa Rica Study Abroad Program. Stuart also served on the Southeastern Louisiana University Advisory Committee on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement. She is author of a forthcoming book chapter on service-learning in applied linguistics.

A native of Bryan, Texas, Stuart earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern Languages and her Master of Arts degree in Spanish Linguistics at Texas A&M University. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy degree from Louisiana State University in Linguistics.

In her spare time, Stuart enjoys traveling with her husband, Richard, and her dashing dachshund, Max Maloney. She also enjoys music and movies.

Karen Powell, Program Director

Karen Powell has joined Louisiana Campus Compact after serving as Assistant Director of the Communication across the Curriculum (CxC) program at Louisiana State University. At CxC Karen helped establish and develop initiatives such as communication-intensive course certification, Communication Studios, and the Distinguished Communicator student certification.

Karen was also a Louisiana State University faculty member in the English Department and Honors College, where she taught interdisciplinary courses on ancient western civilization and medieval culture and courses on composition, business communication, drama, Shakespeare, and poetry. She previously taught in the English Department at the University of Delaware and instructed English as a Second Language (ESL) students in the university’s English Language Institute.

A Louisiana native, Karen works as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA). As a CASA volunteer she represents abused and neglected children in the community to ensure that their physical, emotional, and educational needs are met and that they are placed in safe homes.

Karen earned her Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Delaware and Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Philosophy from Louisiana State University.

Zechariah Brewer, Graduate Assistant

Zechariah Brewer, LaCC’s new Graduate Assistant, is studying in SLU’s M.A. program in English.  A native of Coushatta, LA, he is a 2007 Southeastern alumnus with a Bachelor of General Studies.  Zechariah spent two years as the director of Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship at Southeastern, three years as Executive Manager of Café Chi Alpha in Baton Rouge, and one year teaching Social Studies at St. Helena Central Middle School in Greensburg, LA.

Roxanne Pfeil, Student Worker

Roxanne Pfeil is a Senior and will graduate in May 2009 with a B.A. in Cultural Resource Management.  She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Southeastern Ceramics Club, and Amnesty International.  During the summer of 2008, Roxanne worked as an intern at the St. Tammany Art Association in Covington, LA, which provided her an opportunity to apply arts administration concepts learned in the classroom to the administration of an existing non-profit organization.  Roxanne plans to continue learning and serving wherever life takes her.