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Susan Bernheimer is currently a member of the faculty in human development at Pacific Oaks College. Her research and teaching focus on the following areas: life stories for growth and learning, nontraditional college student development, bicultural issues in adult learning, early childhood education, and empowering communities in poverty. She spent 12 years as a community college instructor, developing early childhood courses in programs that assist students in poverty. Dr. Bernheimer is the author of New Possibilities for Early Childhood Education: Stories from Our Nontraditional Students (Peter Lang Publishing, Inc. 2003). She has presented her work at both national and international forums such as the National Association for the Education of Young Children, Oxford Round Table and Reconceptualizing Early Childhood.