We Speak Your Language
Looking for help in your native language? We speak your language! Please contact any of the staff below with questions.
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
Epigmenio Vega-Vasquez Bustamante
Languages: Spanish, English
Admissions & Records
Can I help with: Records (degrees & certificates)
[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.
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, 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, Student Loans
[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
Jhonaliza Villanueva
Languages: Tagalog, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: CCCApply Applications
[email protected]
Financial Aid
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: Cal Grant information, FAFSA, SSC Grants
[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]
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]
Epigmenio Vega-Vasquez Bustamante
Languages: Spanish, English
Can help with: Admissions & Records
Can I help with: Records (degrees & certificates)
[email protected]
Financial Aid
Eleen Badal Abdishou
Languages: Farsi, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: Financial Literacy, FAFSA, CCPG, Pell Grants, Student Loans
[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, Work Study
[email protected]
Roehl Galang
Languages: Tagalog, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: Cal Grant, FAFSA, SSC Grants
[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]
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]