Danielle Santos is Professor and Chair of the First Year and Foundational Literacy Department. Professor Santos earned a Bachelor of Arts in English (concentration in writing/minor in Gender Studies) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a Masters of Education in Secondary English Education from Southern New Hampshire University. She has earned additional graduate credentials in Evaluation and Assessment and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Professor Santos has completed extensive training in open educational resources (OERs), AI in the classroom, and equity-minded pedagogy, and has presented on OERs and service-learning projects. She has been awarded over a dozen grants to develop online, hybrid, and virtual courses, and aside from Composition and FFL courses, she teaches PRO100: Introduction to the Professional Portfolio.
Denise Cady Arbeau teaches Composition and Seminar classes, First Year Experience classes and Yoga,
Meditation and Stress Management I and II. Professor Cady Arbeau holds a Bachelor’s
degree in English from the University of Massachusetts Lowell, a Master of Arts in
Teaching degree from Emmanuel College and a Master of Arts in American Studies from
the University of Massachusetts Boston. She is a Registered Yoga Teacher with over
10 years of yoga teaching experience and hundreds of hours of training.
Russell Green, Professor of First Year and Foundational Literacy, has been teaching at NSCC since
September 2000. Teaching initially in the English Department, Professor Green joined
First Year Experience Foundational Literacy in September 2011. Professor Green supports
innovation in developmental education and has presented at conferences on Accelerated
Learning Plan curriculum, contextualized curriculum, business writing, Smart grading
of student writing, and service learning for developmental students. With publications
in Teaching for Our Times, the New England Faculty Development Consortium Exchange,
and Sigma Chi Magazine, Russell Green earned a B.A in English Literature and in Italian
Literature at Rutgers College and an M.F.A. in Writing and Literature at Emerson College.
In April 2014, Professor Green was the recipient of the Delta Alpha Pi Honor Society's
Excellence in Teaching Award.
Wanda Pothier-Hill is an Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, as well as First Year and
Foundational Literacy at North Shore Community College. She holds an MFA from Goddard
College, a BA from Mount Holyoke College, an AA from Mount Wachusett Community College,
and is currently working on her doctorate at the California Institute of Integral
Studies. Pothier-Hill has taught writing and literature courses for more than twenty
years, including Composition 1, Creative Writing, Composition 2, and Writing About
Literature and the Environment. Additionally, she developed two new courses for the
Gender and Women’s Studies department: Revolutionary Women–Combating Inequality, Poverty,
and Power and Women and War. In 2021, she was the liberal studies lecturer for the
Liberal Studies Lecture Series at North Shore Community College where she discussed
the evolution, challenges, and accomplishments of women serving in the United States
military. At North Shore Community College, she has served on the following committees:
Forums on Tolerance, the Diversity Leadership Council, and the National Coalition
for Building Institutions. In addition to her teaching, Pothier-Hill is a writer of
fiction, short stories, and poetry. Her work has appeared in publications, such as
Gravel Magazine and The Pitkin Review. Furthermore, she has written a novel, The Road
Home, and is working on new fiction.