Puente Team

I was born and raised in Fremont as the first in my family to go to college. At Ohlone College, I found my voice and my identity as a student in MEChA, the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, and with the help of my mentors, I transferred and graduated from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor’s degree in Chicano Studies. I continued on to Cal State Hayward where I received my Master’s degree in Counseling, with an emphasis in Education and Multicultural counseling. I have been a community college counselor since 2000 and have been the Chabot College Puente Project Counselor/Coordinator since August of 2011. I enjoy participating in extra-curricular activities as a professional at Chabot and a member of the Hayward community.

Born and raised in the East Bay, Kristin Land is doing her dream job: teaching English in Hayward alongside her Puente familia. A middle-class, anti-capitalist, white cis-woman, Kristin is motivated by each opportunity to learn in partnership with her colegas and students. She is committed to imagining and building a more socially and environmentally just world for the generations ahead. Her parents sparked this commitment, especially her ma who was the first in her Italian-American family to graduate from college in the ‘60’s. During Kristin’s undergrad, as she specialized in Chicano Studies and American Lit at UCSB and UCLA, she felt her personal and professional values align. In 2001, she earned a secondary teaching credential and Masters in Education at UC Berkeley, and ever since she’s been striving to teach in a way that amplifies equity, justice, joy, and healing in our communities.

Shoshanna Tenn has been teaching English composition and literature at Chabot College since the year 2000 (turn of the century!). She teaches across the curriculum from English 1, 4A and 7A, to GE/English major literature courses including Asian American Literature, U.S. Latinx Literature, Modern and Contemporary American Literature, and Children and YA Literature, a course she developed while on her first sabbatical in 2010. Since 2019, she has been teaching in the Puente Project and co-coordinates that program with a Chabot Counselor. Shoshanna loves to read, travel, dance and stay active outside, and in the classroom, she loves encouraging students to develop their own writing voices and enjoy the art of literature. She also deeply loves la comunidad de Puente.