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Meet Your Peer Academic Advisors (PAAs)

Peer Academic Advisors (PAAs) are para-professionals trained to help with general advising, major/minor changes, course selection, etc. Unlike the full-time Advising Center staff, PAAs serve the entire student population, not just first-years.

 

Appointment Topics

  • General Advising Needs: Schedule planning, registration help, and adding or changing your major/minor.
  • Academic Success & Study Skills: Support with study skills, time management, GPA calculations, assignment mapping, and assignment accountability, etc.
  • Graduation Application & Planner Support: Support using the Planner tool, building a digital course-by-course academic plan to take to your faculty advisor, filling out the Graduation Application, etc.
  • FirstGen & SEID Support: Support navigating university systems, building connections and academic thriving.

 

How to Make an Appointment  Become a Peer Academic Advisor

 

PAA Directory

Diana Guan

Diana Guan

Peer Academic Advisor
Graduate Application & Planner Support

51ÂÜÀò Diana Guan

  • Class Year: Fourth Year
  • Major: Mathematics
  • Hometown: Beijing, China
  • Favorite Childhood Book or Movie: My Neighbor Totoro

Contact & Office Hours



Charis Adams

Charis Adams

Peer Academic Advisor
Biology

51ÂÜÀò Charis Adams

  • Class Year: Third Year
  • Major: Biology
  • Hometown: Coeur d'Alene, ID
  • Favorite Childhood Book or Movie: Listening for Lions

Contact & Office Hours



Ben Cordner

Ben Cordner

Peer Academic Advisor
Cinema and Media Arts

51ÂÜÀò Ben Cordner

  • Class Year: Third Year
  • Major: Cinema & Media Arts (Directing)
  • Hometown: Perkasie, PA
  • Favorite Childhood Book or Movie: Megamind

Contact & Office Hours



Audrey Claassen

Audrey Claassen

Peer Academic Advisor
Cinema & Media Arts

51ÂÜÀò Audrey Claassen

  • Class Year: Third Year
  • Major: Cinema & Media Arts (Directing)
  • Hometown: Cottonwood, CA
  • Favorite Childhood Book or Movie: Atlantis the Lost Empire

Contact & Office Hours



Danica Chavez

Danica Chavez

Peer Academic Advisor
FirstGen/SEID

51ÂÜÀò Danica Chavez

  • Class Year: Third Year
  • Major: Psychology
  • Hometown: Whittier, CA
  • Favorite Childhood Book or Movie: High School Musical

Contact & Office Hours



Calissa Wong

Calissa Wong

Peer Academic Advisor
Undeclared

51ÂÜÀò Calissa Wong

  • Class Year: Third Year
  • Major: Writing for Film & TV
  • Hometown: Foster City, CA
  • Favorite Childhood Book or Movie: Curious George

Contact & Office Hours



Gretchen Hill

Gretchen Hill

Peer Academic Advisor
Psychology and Study Abroad

51ÂÜÀò Gretchen Hill

  • Class Year: Fourth Year
  • Major: Psychology
  • Hometown: Genoa, IL
  • Favorite Childhood Book or Movie: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Contact & Office Hours



Ella Vander Meulen

Ella Vander Meulen

Peer Academic Advisor
Academic Success/Study Skills

51ÂÜÀò Ella Vander Meulen

  • Class Year: Third Year
  • Major: Biological Science (Pre-Med)
  • Hometown: Escalon, CA
  • Favorite Childhood Book or Movie: WALL-E

Contact & Office Hours



Cassie Alura

Cassie Alura

Peer Academic Advisor
Music

51ÂÜÀò Cassie Alura

  • Class Year: Third Year
  • Major: Music (Commercial Music)
  • Hometown: Fontana, CA
  • Favorite Childhood Book or Movie: Meet the Robinsons

Contact & Office Hours



Alexa Moormeier

Alexa Moormeier

Peer Academic Advisor
Online Bachelor Students, Talbot School of Theology

Contact & Office Hours