Potra Valentin:
CLASS OF 1995
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West High SchoolClass of 1995
Iowa city, IA
Community College of Baltimore CountyClass of 2013
Baltimore, MD
Howard Community CollegeClass of 2013
Columbia, MD
University of ChicagoClass of 2008
Chicago, IL
University of Maryland Baltimore CountyClass of 2005
Baltimore, MD
Potra's Story
After high school, I started my undergraduate career at the U of I majoring in Art History, Classics, and Psychology. I combined all of those interests into one (Anthropology ... specifically Cultural Anthropology) when I moved to Baltimore and started attending UMBC. I then moved to Chicago where I did my graduate studies focussing on the Language and Semiotics aspects of Cultural Anthropology, I dabbled in the corporate world, hated it, and moved back to Baltimore where I started teaching at some local community colleges and UMUC. I absolutely loved teaching, especially at the community college level (where you really feel like you're making a difference and have the opportunity ...Expand for more
to introduce kids to the ideas, concepts, ways of thinking, and things you feel most passionate about ... if you're a nerd). The only problem was that I didn't like Baltimore very much, and so I came back to Iowa City (the closest thing to a home-town I've ever had), and--as no one in the Sociology or Anthropology departments at Kirkwood seemed about to retire--started working at Pearson. I don't have much of an online presence, haven't given an invited talk or published a paper in years, but you can always try and see what I've been up to through my linked in or facebook pages (though I can't guarantee they're at all up-to-date):
linkedin/in/valentinpotra
facebook/valentinpotra
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BY T. S. ELIOT
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