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Counselors and Staff - Counseling Department

The Counseling Department can be contacted at:

• Fremont campus: (510) 659-6110;
  Student Services Center (Building 7), Room 7302, third floor
• Newark Center: (510) 742-2340;
  Newark Student Services Center, Room NC-1312, first floor, Wing 3

• Counselors - Fremont campus
• Counselors - Newark Center campus
• Administrative Counseling Staff
• DSPS Staff and Counselors
• EOPS Staff and Counselors
• Financial Aid Staff and Counselors
• Placement Testing Center Staff
• Transfer Center Staff
• Workability III Staff

Fremont Campus Counselors

• Diane Berkland
  Counselor, Transfer Coordinator
  (510) 659-6110
  dberkland@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 7352, Building 7, third floor
  • Languages Spoken: English
  • Job Description: General Counselor, Transfer Center
  • Interests/Hobbies: Softball, Music, Travel & Family
  • Favorite Quotation/Saying: "Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture. Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can." -Norman Vincent Peale
    

• Nadia Dadgar
  Counselor
  (510) 659-6110
  ndadgar@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 7349, Building 7, third floor
  • Languages Spoken: English, Farsi/Dari, Urdu/Hindi
  • Job Description: General Counselor, Instructor for Personal Development 113 Strategies for Succeeding in College
  • Interest/Hobbies: Traveling and spending time with family, Music and International Movies, Sports - basketball & volleyball
  • Favorite Quotation/Saying: "Life is a process to be enjoyed, Not a race to be won." -Author unknown
    

• Mike DeUnamuno
  Counselor and Athletics Counselor
  (510) 659-6110
  mdeunamuno@ohlone.edu
  

  • Office Location: Room 7356, Building 7, third floor
  • Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
  • Job Description: General Counselor
    

• Jennifer Harper
  Counselor/Professor, Personal Development
  (510) 659-6110
  jharper@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 7346, Building 7, third floor
  • Job Description: Counselor, Personal Development Instructor, Student Success Program
  • Interests/Hobbies: Travel, jogging, reading, yoga, pilates
  • Favorite Quotation/Saying: "Everything happens for a reason." -Author unknown
    

• Yvonka Headley
  Counselor/Instructor
  (510) 659-6110
  yheadley@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 7324, Building 7, third floor
  • Languages spoken: English
  • Job Description: General Counselor, Instructor for Personal Development 150 Career Planning
  • Interests/Hobbies: traveling, creative writing, sports: track & field and basketball
  • Favorite Quotation/Saying: "Inner happiness is the fuel of success." -Author unknown
    

• Lenore Landavazo
  Adjunct Counselor/Instructor
  (510) 659-6110
  llandavazo@ohlone.edu

  • General availability: Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
  • Office Location: Room 7327, Building 7, third floor
  • I have a background in Social Work, foster family agency. I very much enjoy accompanying students with career/major exploration. Enjoy the Journey!!
  • Job Description: General Counselor, Instructor for Personal Development 113 Strategies for Succeeding in College
  • Interests/Hobbies: Family and friends, Cavalier King Charles Spaniel puppy, snowboarding, reading, travel, church, crochet
    

• Jesse MacEwan
  Counselor/Instructor
  (510) 659-6110
  jmacewan@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 7325, Building 7, third floor
  • Languages spoken: English
  • Job Description: General Counselor, Instructor for Personal Development 150 Career Planning, New Student Orientation, Peer Mentors, Freshman Days: Ohlone College Orientation, Welcome Day
  • Interests/Hobbies: Eating/cooking, traveling, and spending time with friends and family
  • Favorite Quote: "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will eat for a lifetime." -Chinese Proverb
    

• Susan Myers
  Counselor
  (510) 659-6110
  smyers@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 7344, Building 7, third floor
  • Job Description: General Counselor, Online Counselor, International Student Counselor, Basic Skills Counselor.
    

• Stephanie Ramos
  Counselor
  (510) 659-6110
  sramos@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 7347, Building 7, third floor
  • Language spoken: English
  • Job Description: General Counselor, Instructor for Personal Development Courses
  • Interests/Hobbies: Travel, kayaking, concerts and festivals
  • Favorite Quotation: It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. -Erma Bombeck
    

• Brenda Arteaga Reynoso
  Counselor, Puente Project Program
  (510) 659-6110
  barteaga@ohlone.edu or breynoso@ohlone.edu (both are valid)

  • Office Location: Room 7348, Building 7, third floor
  • Language Spoken: English, Spanish
  • Job Description: General Counselor, Puente Project Co-Coordinator/Counselor
  • Hobbies/Interests: Traveling, reading, and dancing.
  • Biography
    

• Wayne Takakuwa
  Counselor
  (510) 659-6110
  wtakakuwa@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 7345, Building 7, third floor
  • Languages Spoken: English
  • Job Description: General Counselor for transfer, technical and occupational programs, as well as career and personal concerns. Transfer Center, Instructor for Personal Development 111 Strategies for Succeeding in College.
    

• Mandy Kwok-Yip
  Counselor
  (510) 659-6110
  myip@ohlone.edu

  • Office Location: Room 7353, Building 7, third floor
  • Languages Spoken: English, Cantonese, Mandarin
  • Job Description: General Counselor, International Student Counselor, Instructor for Personal Development 101 College Survival Techniques