Dawn Monnet, MA Training Team Dawn Monnet is a seasoned teacher and trainer, with international experience in education and corporate settings. Since 1987 she has taught courses in Public Speaking, Interpersonal Communication, Intercultural Communication, Organizational Communication, Group Discussion, and coached the speech and debate team. While coaching the SRJC Speech and Debate Team in 1988-1991, the team was in the top five at the state level and in the top ten at the national level of competition. In 1992 and 1993 she lived in Kobe, Japan, where she Intermediate and Advanced English to Japanese students at the Simul Academy. She also taught Basic English, Business English, Skills Clinics, special topics like American Culture Through TV, and Peace Studies. Her methods combined textbook work with language lab, current articles from newspapers and magazines, videotapes, recordings and other engaging in-class activities. Dawn’s corporate training began in 1992. Since that time, she has facilitated a variety of cross-cultural training programs for executives, managers and engineers, preparing them for international assignments. She has worked with employees coming from or going to Mexico, Canada, England, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Italy, Ukraine, Romania, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Korea, China, India, Saudi Arabia, and Japan. She has worked with many well-known companies including Lucent, Baxter, Guidant, Dow, Motorola, Air Touch Cellular, Thiokol Corporation, Ericsson, and Alcatel. As a Certified IBM Diversity Trainer, she co-facilitated diversity seminars for IBM employees at various sites around the country, and has also offered diversity programs for Com 21, OCLI, and Cross Check. Dawn received her MA and BA degrees in Speech Communication from California State University, Long Beach. She also received a degree in Teaching English as a Second Language from Sonoma State University. Dawn has a teenage son, and has been actively involved in his education. She volunteers in the classroom and also serves as President of the Mariposa Parent Foundation, a non-profit organization that works to support the enrichment programs offered at a magnet school in Sebastopol, California. She has also been a counselor or coordinator for the Family Camp at Spirit Rock, a Buddhist retreat center in Marin County, California, and is a member of the Spirit Rock Family Council.