Off-Campus

Dilek Bulut

Dilek Bulut


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Dilek is a design professional with a wide range of experience in eLearning development and instructional design. For over 15 years, she has worked with various organizations, including non-profits, where she designed interactivities, animations, instructional videos and illustrations for eLearnings. She is a firm believer in the power of user experience design to create the best learning experience.

In her spare time, she likes to watch scary movies and occasionally dabbles in sewing and crocheting.

Charissa Quiambao

Charissa Quiambao


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Charissa is the Event Planner at the Alliance. She helps to lead the efforts in planning and executing conferences for the Department of Youth, Children and Families (DCYF). Charissa brings enthusiasm, organization, and communication to pin down events. Charissa also assists the Alliance CaRES staff to promote informative and inspirational social media to caregivers across the state.

Carol Armstrong

Carol Armstrong


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Carol is an indigenous woman of patrilineal descent of Onödowá’ga:’ (Seneca Nation) and European ancestry. She initially chose to pursue education as a career, obtaining her degree in secondary education before deciding to return to school to earn a BS in psychology and ethics. She graduated magna cum laude in 2015 from Mid-America Christian University in Oklahoma City while eight months pregnant. After the birth of her daughter, Carol returned to MACU in pursuit of an MS in counseling psychology.

Deb Ausema

Deb Ausema


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Deb Ausema joined the Alliance in December 2021 as a development and facilitation specialist.  She is the lead facilitator for RIGHT RESPONSE®, a class she has been facilitating for over 14 years. 

Lynn Robinson

Lynn Robinson


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Lynn started her social work career in 2001, working at Catholic Community Services in Vancouver, WA doing Intensive Family Preservation Services and Behavioral Rehabilitation Services (BRS) work with children and families utilizing the Wraparound approach to work toward stabilization and permanency. She continued her work with Catholic Community Services in Tacoma on the Family Access to Stabilization and Transition (FAST) Team to help stabilize children and families in crisis.

Deanna Morrison

Deanna Morrison


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Deanna Morrison is a Development and Facilitation Specialist for the Alliance. Her focus is working with foster parents and relative caregivers in coaching on key strategies in working through Trauma, understanding Family Time and other premiere educational curriculums. She also extends her expertise in working with licensed families who are working through compliance agreements. It has always been a career goal for her to work for UW Alliance as Deanna prides herself in helping the caregiver community navigate the DCYF system as well as provides support.

Jonathan Tomhave

Jonathan Tomhave


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Jonathan (Hidatsa, Ho-Chunk, and Prairie Band Potawatomi) has been teaching and developing curriculum in higher education since 2010. Jonathan has a PhD and a Master of Communication, Native Voices Option from the University of Washington. Jonathan undergraduate degree is a BS in Information Systems Management from California Baptist University. Before joining the alliance, Jonathan has been an instructor and curriculum developer in the fields of communication, Anthropology, Sociology, and American Indian Studies.