Laurienne Hammond is the Business, as well as Accounting and Finance Department Chair and Instructor. Teaching combines her two passions: business and accounting. She has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, business owner, and advisor. Her academic career has spanned over fifteen years serving thousands of students with her dual specialties. She views teaching as an opportunity to take students along a continuum of knowledge acquisition grounded in real-world application. Her classes foster student participation by discussing current events. Laurienne’s primary goal as an instructor is to foster personal empowerment by translating concepts and strategies to students in a clear and fluid manner.
Her educational background encompasses a Bachelor of Science in Business with concentrations in finance and marketing. She holds a Master of Science degree in Accounting. She has worked in the public and private sectors within accounting. This has included developing and launching multiple businesses. She has served as a Director of Operations within the insurance industry. She embraces the unlimited possibilities of the business entrepreneurial life and its ever-evolving application within technology and global economics. It is her pleasure to bring my personalized expertise to educating the professionals of the future.
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Mo Hassan is a Professor of Business and Accounting. He has been working at Cabrillo Community College since 1999. He holds an M.B.A. in Finance. His expertise is teaching and consulting in the areas of business and financial management. Mo's passions are traveling, biking, swimming, and spending time in the outdoors. His favorite quote is "It Always Seems Impossible Until It's Done." -Nelson Mandela
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Jess A. Vega-Centeno is a full time instructor in the business department at Cabrillo College. With 15 years of industry experience in advertising and marketing, she has developed and managed campaigns and communication plans for a variety of products and services ranging from educational to financial services. For 15 years as an educator, she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in advertising, strategy and creative execution, digital media, marketing, and global strategic communications. As a critical scholar, her research has focused on marketplace inequities as they relate to race, gender, class, and sexuality. Her most recent work, “Milleniage Advertising: Reconceptualizing Advertising and Its Role in Forming Social Identities” has been published in The Routledge Companion to Advertising and Promotional Culture.