TWU Commencement Program Fall 2023

Salena Paige Parker, B.A., M.A.
Dissertation: “What She Carries with Her”: Investigating
Women’s Interwar Travel Narratives
Briana Eileen Paulman, B.A., Ph.D.
Dissertation: Factor Analyses on the Validity of the Wechsler
Measures of Cognitive Functioning
Ryan Joseph Pontiff, B.S., D.P.T., Ph.D.
Dissertation: Assessment of Stress and Burnout in Physical
Therapist Clinical Instructors
Anisha Rajesh, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Dissertation: Genealogies and Legacies: A Postcolonial
Historiography of Mohiniyattam
Alicia Ramirez, B.S., M.S.
Dissertation: Nurses’ Perceptions of Clinical Competency and
Individualized Care in Relation to Solid Organ Transplantation
Margarita Ramos-Rivera, B.A., M.Ed.
Dissertation: Autonomous Fearless Use of Language:
Understanding Non-Fiction English Text with Fifth-Grade
Bilinguals Through Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Jacqui Razo-Haynes, B.A., M.A., M.A.T., Ph.D.
Dissertation: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Mexican Cooking
Devoted to American Homes by Josefina Velazquez de Leon
and My Mexico by Diana Kennedy
Amelia Hodge Reid, B.S.N., M.S.N.
Dissertation: Social Determinants of Health Influential
to Medication Adherence in Hispanic Women with
Cardiovascular Disease
Teri Kaye Rupp, B.Ed., M.O.T.
Dissertation: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of
School-Based Occupational Therapists’ Experiences with
Moral Distress
Lindsay N. Seymour, B.S., M.S.
Dissertation: “It’s Exhausting”: A Narrative Exploration of
Black Millennials’ Experiences with Online Dating
Griselda Ivette Solano, B.I.S., M.Ed., M.Ed.
Dissertation: Engaging in Youth Participatory Action Research to
Change our World: Middle School Emergent Bilingual Students
Ivonne Janeth Solano, B.A., M.Ed., M.S.
Dissertation: Aspirante Bilingual Educators’ Development of
Critical Consciousness: A Critical Qualitative Inquiry
Anne C. Sullivan, B.A., M.O.T., M.S., Ph.D.
Dissertation: Transition to Adulthood: Executive Functions and
Independent Living Skills in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Carol Elise Thompson, B.S., M.S.
Dissertation: A Post-Intentional Study of Telesupervision
Experiences of Marginalized Mental Health Supervisees
Kristine Aileen Tolentino-Plata, B.S., M.S.
Dissertation: The Role of Special Child Services in Extremely
Preterm Children’s Neurodevelopment and Behavior
Kathryn Marianne Mendoza Torres, B.A., M.Ed., Ph.D.
Dissertation: The Impact of COVID-19 and COVID-19
Stressors on Intimate Partner Violence in Racial and
Ethnic Minorities
Noelle Jeanette Tuttle, B.S., M.S. Minor: Mathematics
Dissertation: The Effects of the Pitcher-Ground Interaction on
Fastball Pitching Velocity
Andrea E. Woods Valdés, B.F.A., M.A., M.F.A., Ph.D.
Dissertation: Dancing Woman(ist)/Black Feminist Aesthetics:
An Embodied Epistemology of Sweat and Spirit
Marijo Medina Villano, B.S., M.A., Ph.D.
Dissertation: Tandaan Ninyo Kami: Filipino Americans’
Experiences of Racism and the Legacy of Colonial Mentality
during COVID-19
Keilah Christine Villarreal, B.A., M.S.
Dissertation: Parental Warmth and Affection as a Protective
Factor Against Adolescent Risky Behavior
Marlene Jeannette Walker, B.A., M.Ed.
Dissertation: Experiencing Readers Theater in a First-Grade
Bilingual Classroom
Richard Ward, B.S., M.S.
Dissertation: Functional Predictors of Frailty and Kidney
Disease Burden in Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease
Receiving Dialysis
Robin M. Watts, B.S., M.S.
Dissertation: Co-Parenting Through Conflict: An Evaluation
of an Intervention for High-Conflict Court-Connected
Family Systems
Kavitha Watul, B.S., M.Eng., M.B.A., Ph.D.
Dissertation: Digitization of Nationally-Representative Nutrition
Intake Data to Support Policymaking and Research Via
Interactive Visualizations
Denzel Jamal Wilson, B.S., M.A., Ph.D.
Dissertation: Digital Dating Abuse in the LGBTQIA+
Community
Daehyun Won, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Dissertation: Teaching Digital-Multimodal Composition for
Digital-Born Students: Exploring Pedagogical Applications of
Interactive Narrative Media
Rebekah Jolie Shelton Zaremba, B.A., M.A.
Dissertation: Spanish-Speaking Clients’ Experiences in Therapy
24 u Commencement Ceremony Fall 2023