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
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
- Email: planner.peer.advising@biola.edu
- Location: Sutherland Hall (First Floor)
- Office Hours:
- Coming Soon

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
- Email: biology.peer.advising@biola.edu
- Location: Lim 117 and Sutherland Hall (First Floor)
- Office Hours:
- Coming Soon

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
- Email: cma.peer.advising@biola.edu
- Location: Sutherland Hall (First Floor)
- Office Hours:
- Coming Soon

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
- Email: cma.peer.advising@biola.edu
- Location: Sutherland Hall (First Floor)
- Office Hours:
- Coming Soon

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
- Email: firstgen.peer.advising@biola.edu
- Location: Sutherland Hall (First Floor)
- Office Hours:
- Coming Soon

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
- Email: peer.advising@biola.edu
- Location: Sutherland Hall (First Floor)
- Office Hours:
- Coming Soon

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
- Email: psychology.peer.advising@biola.edu and study.abroad@biola.edu
- Location: Sutherland Hall (First Floor)
- Office Hours:
- Coming Soon

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
- Email: study.peer.advising@biola.edu
- Location: Sutherland Hall (First Floor)
- Office Hours:
- Coming Soon

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
- Email: music.peer.advising@biola.edu
- Location: Sutherland Hall (First Floor)
- Office Hours:
- Coming Soon

Alexa Moormeier
Peer Academic Advisor
Online Bachelor Students, Talbot School of Theology
Contact & Office Hours
- Email: bbststudentworker@biola.edu
- Location: Remote (Virtual)
- Office Hours:
- Coming Soon