Kent Jewell

Area Secretary Supervisor
312J Miller Hall
206-616-6310
kjewell@u.washington.edu

Hi!

Welcome to the Area of Educational Psychology. While the UW is a very large institution, I think you’ll find that your experience here in Educational Psychology could be more personable than you might initially think. In EDPSY we try to provide friendly, intelligent and helpful staff support for all students here in Educational Psychology, as well as for the whole College community.

If you choose to come here and make it into one of our programs, you will get to know me in my capacity as Area Secretary. I try my best to help folks with useful and necessary information concerning our program and faculty, as well as with general queries about the University. If I don’t have the answer to your question, I’ll do my best to help you find it! I work closely with our Area Chair and all of our program faculty and supervise the EDPSY staff. I also play a role in helping to support the new Early Childhood and Family Studies program.

I also maintain an active presence in the College community, this year serving as a staff rep on the 2009-10 College Faculty Council; I also enjoy organizing the occasional weekend College social bike ride and managing the "Ed Psychlers" bicycle commuter team for the annual UW 'Ride in the Rain' challenge. For the last couple years, I've joined Husky Cycling, and enjoy getting out on weekend training rides with the student racing team. I occasionally help lead rides and volunteer at races.

I began working here in 1996, although my ties to the UW go back further --I attended as a student in the mid-80’s (Political Science major). I played trumpet in the Husky Marching Band for four years (including traveling to Rose and Orange Bowl wins!). After college I participated in a large 9-month cross-US peace walk (the Great Peace March), and then also traveled a fair bit around the U.S. and Europe. I was a partnership owner in several independent bookstores (primarily Left Banks Books in the Pike Place Market) here in Seattle for 8 years before coming back to work here at the UW.

In my free time I enjoy bicycling recreationally and competitively, hiking and camping, making collage art, singing, listening to a wide variety of music, as well as writing, and reading from my large personal library (or from obscure tomes found over in Suzzallo library). Some of my old collage art was featured without attribution in two anthologies: Only a Beginning (2004, Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, B.C.), and in Secret and Suppressed (1993, Feral House, Port Townsend, WA).

I was a founding and seven-season member of the only Scottish Gaelic choir in the United States. Currently I sing tenor and perform in the traditional Scottish/Gaelic Seattle-area-based folk group Oran nan Car. The University of Washington's faculty and staff publication University Week featured an interview with a fellow band member/UW staffer and myself as we celebrated the April 19, 2008 release of our first CD in a sold-out show at the UW's Ethnic Cultural Theatre. I've also been tangentially involved in a documentary film project documenting the local Seattle-area Scottish Gaelic cultural and linguistic community. The title is 'Bliadhna agus La (A Year and a Day)' and it features a variety of activities and events of the local Gaelic community over the course of 2008 (including a few shots of my music group). You can see the near 7-minute first draft teaser trailer here on youtube.
I also have an active interest in a variety of Celtic cultural and scholarly endeavors: e.g., a few years ago I had several contributions published along with other scholars from the U.S., Ireland and Wales in the free online book, Land, Sea and Sky.

I would encourage you to see us support staff as your allies here in the College -- we're here to help you navigate your way successfully. I hope that you have a truly rewarding educational experience wherever your path leads you, but especially look forward to helping you achieve your best if you enter our program!

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