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SAS & EOP Staff

Dr. Marcellene Watson-Derbigny
Assistant Vice President, Student Academic Success
Dr. Marcellene Watson-Derbigny - Director of Student Academic Success Programs
Email: watsonml@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: “Success is a lifelong journey of achievement. Don’t let it pass you by.”

College Success Tip: Don’t forget to take notes — you might need the information later.


David Ortega
EOP Admissions Coordinator / Counselor
David Ortega - EOP Admissions Coordinator / Counselor
Email: ortegad@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: “Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” – Unknown Author

College Success Tip: Read, read, read!


Delmy Montenegro-Spencer
EOP Outreach Coordinator / Counselor
Delmy Montenegro-Spencer - EOP Outreach Coordinator / Counselor
Email: dmontene@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: “If you don’t invest in yourself, who will?”

College Success Tip: Don’t be afraid to ask for help.


Jerry Blake - “Blake”
EOP Counselor
Jerry Blake - EOP Counselor
Email: blake@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: Study hard, stay focused, collect great friends and have fun!

College Success Tip: You will face many obstacles, just remember to “stay the course”, expect to make sacrifices, and do what you have to do to succeed!


Al Striplen
EOP Counselor
Al Striplen - EOP Counselor
Email: striplen@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: Find your unconditioned self and you’ll find an amazing person.

College Success Tip: Find quiet time daily and eat well and sleep well.


Ricardo Torres
EOP Counselor
Ricardo Torres
Email: torresr@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: “You are the best we have. You are all we have. You are what we have become!” – Maya Angelou

College Success Tip: Know what you want.


Sai Xiong
EOP Counselor
 Sai Xiong - EOP Counselor
Email: xiongs@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: Live life to the fullest. You are all we have. You are what we have become!”

College Success Tip: Don’t be afraid to ask for help where ever you can get it.


Jesus Tarango
EOP Counselor
 Jesus Tarango - EOP Counselor
Email: tarango@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: Respect others if you want others to respect you. You are all we have. You are what we have become!”

College Success Tip: Take one step at a time and continue to move forward.


Leticia Perez
EOP Counselor
 Leticia Perez - EOP Counselor
Email: perezl@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: Everything happens for a reason. The lesson we learn from each challenging experience is an opportunity to become wiser.

College Success Tip: Don’t be afraid to ask for help. We were all in your place one day


Len Wycosky
EOP Counselor
 Len Wycosky - EOP Counselor
Email: wycoskyl@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: Keep your goals in mind and revisit them frequently to see if you are progressing in the desired direction.

College Success Tip: Remember to study 2 hours for every hour that you are in class.


Simon Slak
SAS Counseling Faculty
 Simon Slak - SAS Counseling Faculty
Email: slaks@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: “The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what’s important and what’s not.”– Robert Stuberg

College Success Tip: Work hard!


Dr. Jeff Clark
SAS Counseling Faculty
 Dr. Jeff Clark - SAS Counseling Faculty
Email: clarkj@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: “For many of us, it is not what we do in the first eight hours of the day that can change our lives; it is what we do on the second eight hours”.

College Success Tip: Learn and have fun!


Anne Cheng
SASEEP Administrative Analyst
 Anne Cheng - EOP Administrative Support Coordinator
Email: chenga@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: “Today’s Impossible is tomorrow’s Miracle”.

College Success Tip: Just do it!


Angelina Gutierrez
EOP / FSMP Administrative Support Assistant
 Angelina Gutierrez - EOP / FSMP Administrative Support Assistant
Email: gutierreza@csus.edu

Phone: (916) 278-6183

Motto: “Success is doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.” – Zig Ziglar

College Success Tip: Don’t Procrastinate! Make daily “To-Do Lists”.