Christine Popok

Christine D. Popok, CPA, MA is a business owner and CSUCI full-time lecturer with over fifteen years experience in accounting, internal and external reporting, budgeting, analysis, contract management, taxation, and marketing for both publicly and privately held companies. While teaching full-time at CSUCI since its inception in 2002, she earned a Master of Arts degree in Rhetoric and Composition. In addition to teaching business courses, she teaches Composition at CSUCI with a focus on Service Learning and Civic Engagement. In addition to her academic lectures, she presents continuing education courses to fellow CPAs and attorneys through the Center for Professional Education, Inc. and owns Christine Popok Accountancy. "Coach Christine," as she prefers her students call her, has been the Faculty Advisor for CSUCI's Rotaract Club since 2003. "Service above Self" is the motto of Rotary International, and she is an honorary member of the Camarillo Noontime Rotary Club.

She began her professional career as an auditor with Deloitte and Touche, LLP. Since then, she was the Accounting Manager of Ventura County National Bancorp where she supervised all financial reporting to the SEC, FDIC, FTB, Federal Reserve, and Board of Directors. At VCNB, she also coordinated financial and regulatory audits, drafted public Annual Reports, and provided all financial data for an S-2 filing (Public Rights Offering) with the SEC. When VCNB was sold, she became the Business Manager and Corporate Secretary for Walter Dorwin Teague Associates, Inc. where she developed an Activity Based Costing profit center model which was approved by the Defense Contract Audit Agency and compliant with Federal Acquisition Regulations. At TEAGUE, she was integrally involved in the design and maintenance of an Intranet project management reporting system to Ventura County Naval Base customers on-line. At both VCNB and TEAGUE, she managed information systems software conversions.

Presently, she is focusing her career on further development of Service Learning & Civic Engagement pedagogy in both English and Business courses. Serving as the Faculty Advisor for CSUCIs Rotaract Club, while teaching full-time, running a small CPA practice, raising two children, keeping her marriage fresh, maintaining a sense of humor and training for marathons gives her perspective on one of the topics she provides to the community as a volunteer for the Faculty Speakers Bureau: Work-Life Balance.

CSUCI Courses taught:

• Stretch Composition I, ENGL 102 with Service Learning component
• Stretch Composition II, ENGL 103
• ENGL 105, Composition & Rhetoric I with Multicultural theme
• Composition & Rhetoric II: Service Learning, Engl 106
• Managerial Accounting, ACCT 220
• Business & Economics in American Literature, Engl/BUS/ECON 340
• Principles of Marketing, MKT 310
• Financial Accounting, ACCT 210

University and Community Contributions:

• Attending USCC conference on International Service with 3 CSUCI students in July 2006 on the UCLA campus
• Collaborative presentation at First CSU Conference on Community-Based Teaching and Research
• Monograph chapter on Service Learning pedagogy in Composition as it relates to social justice for CSU Office of the Chancellor, Stylus publishers
• Presented Service Learning pedagogy and planned assessment activities at CSUN Student Research and Creative Activity Symposium on (2005)
• Faculty Advisor/Editor for student publications Island Voices (2005) and Reflections (2004)
• Service Learning Curriculum Development Grant recipient (2005)
• Member of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Sigma Tau Delta, English Honors Society
• Faculty Advisor for CSUCI Rotoract Club
• President-Elect, National Contract Management Association, 1998
• Vice President-Membership, National Contract Management Association, 1997
• Member, National Association of Female Executives
• Volunteer Speaker and co-advisor, Business Student Association at CSUCI 2002
• Member CPA Law Society
• Actively involved in fundraising for the YMCA, American Cancer Society, Dream Foundation, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, etc.