Sandy Niemann, MA, M.Div., has acted as the Humanities Coordinator for the PACE Program at Vista College since 1994 and has been an English instructor in the program since 1989. Ms. Niemann holds an M.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.Div. in Religious Studies from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, and a B.S. in Nursing from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Ms. Niemann is currently in a doctoral program in nursing at UCSF, where her focus is in infant mental health. She has been a medical writer and editor for the Hesperian Foundation and the Northern California Biotechnology Center, and has rewritten eight books on politics and current affairs for Odonian Press.