Meet the Faculty
Timothy Barretto
associate professor of communications
Tim Barretto co-founded the Community Leadership Program in 2000 and has been teaching writing and communications at UNH since 1986. A lifelong love of reading literature and writing fiction led him to recognize a personal need to be actively involved in working toward a better world. Since then, his principal focus has been to find ways to prevent child abuse. This work has led to considerable experience with public speaking; writing; community organizing; multi-media public relations; chairing and serving on committees and boards; and networking with local governments, state agencies, schools, and nonprofits that share the vision of promoting a safe world for children.
His honors include the 2002 Smith Award for Excellence in Service to Families, presented by the NH Children's Trust Fund to the HUB Family Resource Center, which Tim helped to found in 1994; and the 1992 Champions for Children Award, presented by the NH Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect to Strafford County for Kids, which Tim also helped to found in 1989. In May or June of 2007 Tim's novel Searching for Joy will be published by Beech River Books.
Education:
M.A., English Writing, University of New Hampshire, 1982
B.A., English Literature, University of New Hampshire, 1974
After school:
Tim loves to be with family (above all); hiking (climbed all the four-thousand footers in N.H.), fly fishing, skiing, writing fiction, reading novels, baseball in general, and, in particular, suffering each year with the Red Sox!
Advice for first-year students:
Make every course you take do what a college education should do: provide a healthy combination of learning and fun!
Kate Hanson
associate professor of social science chair
Kate Hanson co-founded the Community Leadership program in 2000. She enriches her courses with decades of community work—ranging from being an advocate at a rape crisis center to serving on a local school committee. The program realizes Kate’s belief in the importance of bringing people of all different ages and backgrounds together to learn how to make a difference.
Kate’s recent professional awards include the 2005 Campus Compact of NH President’s Good Steward Award, the 1999 UNH Stephanie Thomas Award for "Promoting Equity and Serving as a Role Model for Women”; the 1999 UNH Distinguished Pink Triangle Award for "commitment to and support of an inclusive community at UNH” and the 1992 TSAS Outstanding Educator Award.
Education:
M.Ed., Counseling, University of New Hampshire, 1976
B.A., English Literature, Connecticut College, 1973
After school:
In addition to working with others to make our communities more just and livable, Kate loves spending time with family, organic gardening, kayaking, bicycling, reading, and learning new things.
Advice for first-year students:
"You can do it! Keep trying! Take risks! Get involved!"
