Liz Zenteno is the Director at the Cogdell Learning Center and has been with Midland College since 2004.  She invites you to come by Cogdell and check us out.  For Liz, the best part of this job is making sure that Cogdell is a place where people feel welcome and can discover what they want to do and then get busy pursuing it.  Liz takes a sincere interest in the well-being and success of all students, and thinks education is one of the best ways to discover one’s potential.  She currently serves as Vice Chair for the Communities in Schools board of directors, participates in MISD’s new Key Communicators program, is active with Comunidad in Action and a member of the League of Women Voters.  While not at work, Liz is either busy with her family, working on her graduate studies through Loyola University, or reading a good book..  She loves foreign languages (especially Spanish and French) and foreigners (she even married one!) and is willing to try any foreign food.

Her favorite quote is something William Butler Yeats once said:  “Education is not the filling of a bucket but the lighting of a fire.”  Liz’ draws inspiration from Dorothy Day, Gandhi, Rigoberta Menchú, Tich Nhat Hanh, César Chavez, Martin Luther King, Sojourner Truth, Gabriela Mistral, Andrés Guljas and her own amazing parents.

To contact Liz, call 684-4518 or e-mail Lzenteno@midland.edu