Janey Skinner

Janey Skinner has been teaching part-time in the Health Education and Community Health Studies dept. since fall 2004.  She has taught introductory health courses (H33 and H53) as well as the new H8, Preparation for Health Careers, and H48, Violence as a Public Health Issue.  She is now a full-time faculty member and serving as Director of the Regional Health Occupations Resource Center (RHORC).  For over two decades, her work with nonprofit organizations and educational institutions has been rooted at the intersections of adult education, public health and leadership development, in both the U.S. and Latin America.  Ms. Skinner is bilingual (Spanish/English).  She has over five years experience as an independent consultant in community health planning, evaluation, curriculum design, organizational development, technical assistance, and training.  Her work has focused especially in communities of color and low income communities.  Her approach to teaching is highly participatory and content-rich.  She likes to have fun with students in the classroom, and she also holds high standards for student work.  She joined City College as an Instructor in the Health Science department in 2004, and since then she has participated in a number of department projects, including leading the process of creating an A.S. degree major in the department, developing new courses, writing cultural competency sections for the Student Success Kit, and collaborating on the creation of a new Trauma Prevention and Recovery Certificate program, housed in the Interdisciplinary Studies department.  She received her Masters in Public Health in Community Health Education from U.C. Berkeley in 1998.