The Instructional Design Fellows is a volunteer group of faculty who collaborate with the Office of Online Learning (OOL) and the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment (CTLA) to provide a cooperative peer model of instructional design, development, and review for online learning. As subject-matter experts, the Fellows work cooperatively with faculty to develop, modify, or redesign courses with an emphasis on providing consistent, compliant, and high-quality options for CGCC’s student body.
ID Fellows have completed the Instructional Design Certification program through the Online Learning Consortium (OLC). The OLC is a collaborative community of higher education leaders and innovators, dedicated to advancing research-based quality digital teaching and learning experiences designed to reach and engage the modern learner – anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Communication & Fine Arts
Buzzy Sullivan
buzzy.sullivan@cgc.edu
480-732-7291
Estrella 237
Buzzy Sullivan is an educator and photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona. Buzzy received his MFA at Arizona State University in 2017 and a BFA from the Oregon College of Art & Craft in 2013. He is the Residential Photography Faculty at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, where he teaches both darkroom and digital photography. Buzzy’s teaching focuses on contextualizing general education classes for the success of visual arts students. He also centers his teaching on Service Learning to help students sharpen their perspective of art as a service to their community.
Jade Williams
jade.williams@cgc.edu
623-300-8487
Cooper 122
Jade Williams joined CGCC as a Residential Faculty member in 2021 and currently serves as the Communication Faculty Lead. She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Florida and a Ph. D. at Arizona State University. She offers a variety of Communication Studies courses in all modalities and has a particular interest in ensuring high-quality educational experiences for all students across modality offerings. This interest led her to the ID Fellows program, where she strives to foster collaborative learning partnerships with faculty and staff on both the Pecos and Williams campuses.
Health Sciences, Public Services & Counseling
Andrea Villarreal
andrea.villarreal@cgc.edu
480-732-7111
Ironwood 248
Andrea Villarreal earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Oregon State University and completed her dietetic internship at Oregon Health Sciences University. She began her career as a registered dietitian nutritionist at the VA Medical Center in downtown Phoenix. During her 8 years at the facility, she worked with both hospitalized patients and those receiving routine treatment for hypertension, diabetes, and other chronic diseases.
Andrea’s favorite career endeavor, thus far, is teaching, which began over 20 years ago. In the early stages of online learning, she helped develop a shared district-wide online nutrition course, which has been through several iterations, becoming the customized course she teaches today. Since coming to Chandler-Gilbert in 2016, Andrea has been actively involved in committees that help to guide the development and assessment of online courses. She believes it is important for students to have consistency between online courses as it helps with both student success and retention. As an instructional design Fellow, Andrea plans to assist other faculty in implementing best practices in their online courses.
Languages, Humanities & Information Studies
Christine Kilbridge
christine.kilbridge@cgc.edu
480-857-5138
Library 220
Christine Kilbridge is a library faculty member at CGCC and serves as the director of the Pecos Campus Library. She has taught in a variety of modalities, including online, hybrid, and face-to-face. Her areas of interest include best practices in information literacy instruction, access to information, and student engagement using “sticky spaces.” Christine serves on the District Library Council and the CGCC Budget Advisory Council in addition to joining the ID Fellows. She holds master’s degrees in Library Science and English Literature, Rhetoric, and Composition.
Barbara Howe
barbara.howe@cgc.edu
480-726-4157
Library 218
Barbara Howe is Library Faculty at CGCC, teaching IFS201, IFS213, and FYE101 in multiple modalities. She also teaches Critical Research Instruction to support students through the research process. When not teaching, her work includes supporting the digital resources of the CGCC library, serving on the district’s Library Digital Group and the Library Core committee, and overseeing the library’s archives. She is pleased to be a part of the first cohort of ID Fellows.
Barb has a law degree from Santa Clara University, a master’s in library science from the University of Arizona, and a bachelor’s in English literature from ASU.
Biology
Kim Greer
kimberly.greer@cgc.edu
480-857-5156
Estrella 129
Kim Greer has an Ed.D with an emphasis in E-learning from National University. Her dissertation focused on inclusive teaching practices, ethnicity, and sense of belonging in online STEM courses. She also has an M.S in Physiology and Developmental Biology. She has been a Biology faculty member at CGCC since 2019 and primarily teaches Anatomy and Physiology. Kim serves on SLOAC, OLAC, and SEM in addition to becoming one of the Instructional Design Fellows.
Social & Behavioral Sciences
Karen P. Villalobos
karen.villalobos@cgc.edu
480-726-4297
Ironwood 270
Karen P. Villalobos is a faculty member in Economics and the Co-chair of the Online Learning Advisory Council at Chandler-Gilbert Community College. With an insatiable curiosity for observable data and verifiable facts, Karen’s academic journey in Economics and Statistics was as inevitable as it has been impassioned. Her rich background includes stints in both the private sector and government organizations across her home state of Texas, where she not only honed her expertise but also discovered her true vocation in the world of academia.
Karen is a fervent proponent of Active Learning and an advocate for sculpting courses through Backward Design, ensuring that students don’t just absorb information but engage with it critically and creatively. With digital platforms and remote instruction becoming increasingly popular, she has been at the forefront, championing the development of comprehensive online courses that reflect the quality and rigor of traditional classroom settings.
Now settled in Chandler, Arizona, with her husband and two wonderful children, Karen brings her vibrant passion for economics to students both in-person and online. She’s dedicated to shaping minds and futures with the same care and dedication she applies to her own life—blending professional rigor with the warmth of her family-centric world.