Kit Cooke Kit McKnight:
CLASS OF 1969
Elkhart High SchoolClass of 1969
Elkhart, KS
California Institute of Integral StudiesClass of 1995
San francisco, CA
Kit Cooke's Story
Life
I married Steve McKnight in 1979. No kids, unless you count our border collie, Buster. (We do.) Our jobs took us all over the country: We've lived in Albuquerque, N.M., San Angelo, TX, Champaign-Urbana, IL, suburban San Francisco for 6 years, and San Francisco for 9 years. In March 2004, we moved from Los Angeles back up to the Bay Area - the place we considr "home." This time, Steve was hired by the Department of Homeland Security. He works at a secluded Coast Guard Training Center near Bodega Bay. It was used during WWII to track enemy submarines off the coast.
I've had a couple of careers. I worked with mentally ill children in my early 20s, then began writing and editing; a career I kept for almost 15 years. In the mid-80s in San Francisco, I got involved in the human potential movement and started doing personal effectiveness training and coaching. I worked with all kinds of people, from the very affluent to homeless people, those who had been in prison, and welfare-to-work families. I went back for an M.A. in organizational psychology at a private grad school offering programs combining eastern and western perspectives. (I'm gratified to see that these app...Expand for more
roaches have become mainstream now, although when I started, it was considered pretty edgy.) After grad school, I did some consulting; wrote an intuition development workshop for women, taught stress management using meditation, yoga, and visualization techniques, then wrote a series of management workshops for a Silicon Valley training company that blended traditional western business approaches with eastern philosophy. Almost seven years ago, the University of California at Berkeley hired me to teach group dynamics to online students working on their project management certificates. And last year, the University of Phoenix recruited me to teach classes online. I teach at the community college level, and many of my students are in the military and/or young parents returning to school. I teach Cultural Diversity, World Cultures, Leadership, Critical Thinking, and Organization Behavior (but not all at once!) :-) And, a few months ago, UC-Berkeley recruited me to update and teach their Human Resources Management course. So, my teaching departments are kind of a reflection of my grad school studies: Half professional development and half ethics.
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