We Speak Your Language
Looking for help in your native language? We speak your language! Please contact any of the staff below with questions.
FAQs in Your Langage
Our FAQ site ask.missioncollege.edu, contains frequently asked questions translated in Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Russian.
Connect with a Counselor
Connect with a counselor who speaks your language.
Welcome Center
The Welcome Center also has a number of student ambassadors who speak different languages.
Spanish
Admissions & Records
Elvita Bustamante
Spanish, English
Can help with: Admissions & Records
Can I help with: Records (degrees & certificates, Last names M-Z)
[email protected]
Cesar Cardenas
Languages: Spanish, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Transcript Requests
[email protected]
Nitha Vasquez
Languages: Spanish, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Cashier & Refunds/Census Rosters
[email protected]
Financial Aid/Outreach
Lucia Moreno
Languages: Spanish, English
Financial Aid/Outreach
Can help with: Scholarship/ AB540 & Mission Promise
[email protected]
Counseling
Read about what languages our counselors speak.
HSI-STEM Fields
Mario Flores
Languages: Spanish
HSI - STEM
Can help with: enrollment (i.e., application process, applying to the Mission Promise,
general financial aid assistance), STEM-related information, registering for course,
online orientation
[email protected]
MESA
Edrina Rashidi
Languages: Assyrian, Spanish
MESA
Can help with: how to get started, enrollment; courses in math/science/engineering,
financial aid applications, information about special programs, and to gather information
for the student from other departments.
[email protected]
Vietnamese
Welcome Center / Registration
Julie Vu
Languages: Vietnamese, English
Welcome Center
Can Help With: Enrollment, Registration, Tours, Admissions, Portal & Canvas Navigations,
Reset Pin, FAFSA, CCC apply and general questions.
[email protected]
Admissions & Records
Diemanh Le
Languages: Vietnamese, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Missing Grades/Liaison to Office of Instruction
[email protected]
Financial Aid
Ngoclien Nguyen
Languages: Vietnamese, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: FAFAS, CCPG, Pell grants
[email protected]
Counseling
See languages our counselors speak.
Technology Questions
Patrick Ly
Languages: Cantonese, Vietnamese
Educational Technology Services
Can help with: Technology services
[email protected]
Arabic
HSI – STEM
Raiida Thompson
Languages: Arabic
HSI-STEM
Can help with: Summer research, and/or internship opportunities, Women in STEM Mentorship
Program, connections to relevant faculty/staff at CSUEB and/or SJSU in a STEM program,
and questions regarding our STEM Learning Center.
[email protected]
Cantonese / Mandarin
Michael Lau
Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Veteran Certifying Official
[email protected]
Technology Questions
Patrick Ly
Languages: Cantonese, Vietnamese
Educational Technology Services
Can help with: Technology services
[email protected]
Farsi
Eleen Badal Abdishou
Languages: Farsi, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: Financial Literacy, FAFSA, CCPG, Pell grants
[email protected]
Bianka Guardino
Languages: Assyrian, Farsi
Counseling
Can help with: academic, career and personal counseling
[email protected]
Hindi
Priyanka Dinesh
Languages: Hindi
Counseling
Can help with: Counseling and related questions
[email protected]
Umera Ameen
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Counseling
Can help with: counseling and related questions
[email protected]
Tagalog
Admissions & Records
Melissa De Los Reyes
Languages: Tagalog, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Records (degrees & certificates, Last names A-L)
[email protected]
Jhonaliza Villanueva
Languages: Tagalog, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: CCCApply Applications
[email protected]
Financial Aid
Cherry Lou Escano
Languages: Tagalog, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: FAFSA, CCPG, Pell grants, Veteran
[email protected]
Marie Rancap
Languages: Tagalog, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: Verification, CCPG, FAFSA, Pell grants
[email protected]
Roehl Galang
Languages: Tagalog, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: Calgrant information, FAFSA
[email protected]
Japanese
Chigusa Katoku
Languages: Japanese, English
Can help with: International Students, Registration
[email protected]
Departments That Speak Your Language
Admissions & Records
Cesar Cardenas
Languages: Spanish, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Transcript Requests
[email protected]
Diemanh Le
Languages: Vietnamese, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Missing Grades/Liaison to Office of Instruction
[email protected]
Jhonaliza Villanueva
Languages: Tagalog, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: CCCApply Applications
[email protected]
Lisa Willett
Language: English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Athletic Certifying Official/Student Petitions/Dual Enrollment
[email protected]
Michael Lau
Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Veteran Certifying Official
[email protected]
Nitha Vasquez
Languages: Spanish, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Cashier & Refunds/Census Rosters
[email protected]
Phyllis Riggs
Language: English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Enrollment Verifications
[email protected]
Elvita Bustamante
Languages: Spanish, English
Can help with: Admissions & Records
Can I help with: Records (degrees & certificates, Last names M-Z)
[email protected]
Melissa De Los Reyes
Languages: Tagalog, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Records (degrees & certificates, Last names A-L)
[email protected]
Financial Aid
Cherry Lou Escano
Languages: Tagalog, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: FAFSA, CCPG, Pell grants, Veteran
[email protected]
Eleen Badal Abdishou
Languages: Farsi, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: Financial Literacy, FAFSA, CCPG, Pell grants
[email protected]
Katy Fitzgerald
Language: English
Financial Aid/Outreach
Can help with: Foster Youth Liaison
[email protected]
Ngoclien Nguyen
Languages: Vietnamese, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: FAFAS, CCPG, Pell grants
[email protected]
Lucia Moreno
Languages: Spanish, English
Financial Aid/Outreach
Can help with: Scholarship/ AB540 & Mission Promise
[email protected]
Marie Rancap
Languages: Tagalog, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: Verification, CCPG, FAFSA, Pell grants
[email protected]
Rene Dwyer
Language: English
Financial Aid
Can help with: Loan application, FAFSA
[email protected]
Roehl Galang
Languages: Tagalog, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: Calgrant information, FAFSA
[email protected]
Counseling
Welcome Center
Welcome Center / Registration
Julie Vu
Languages: Vietnamese, English
Welcome Center
Can Help With: Enrollment, Registration, Tours, Admissions, Portal & Canvas Navigations,
Reset Pin, FAFSA, CCC apply and general questions.
[email protected]
The Welcome Center also has a number of ambassadors that speak different languages. Please ask and we will do the best we can to accommodate.
International Center
Chigusa Katoku
International Center Director
Languages: Japanese, English
Can help with: being an international student, student visas, international work study,
registration, applying as an internatioanl student, international programs, studying
abroad
[email protected]
Other Areas of Campus
HSI – STEM
Raiida Thompson
Languages: Arabic
HSI-STEM
Can help with: Summer research, and/or internship opportunities, Women in STEM Mentorship
Program, connections to relevant faculty/staff at CSUEB and/or SJSU in a STEM program,
and questions regarding our STEM Learning Center.
[email protected]
Mario Flores
Languages: Spanish
HSI - STEM
Can help with: enrollment (i.e., application process, applying to the Mission Promise,
general financial aid assistance), STEM-related information, registering for course,
online orientation
[email protected]
MESA
Edrina Rashidi
Languages: Assyrian, Spanish
MESA
Can help with: how to get started, enrollment; courses in math/science/engineering,
financial aid applications, information about special programs, and to gather information
for the student from other departments.
[email protected]
Xuan Lu - Languages: Vietnamese
Student Services
Can help with: EOPS, Financial Aid, Enrollment, Assessment Tests, DSPS, STEM
[email protected]
Technology Questions
Patrick Ly
Languages: Cantonese, Vietnamese
Educational Technology Services
Can help with: Technology services
[email protected]