We Speak Your Language


Looking for help in your native language? We speak your language! Please contact any of the staff below with questions.


Connect with a Counselor

Connect with a counselor who speaks your language. 


Welcome Center

The Welcome Center also has a number of student ambassadors who speak different languages.

Spanish
Admissions & Records

Epigmenio Vega-Vasquez Bustamante
Languages: Spanish, English
Admissions & Records
Can I help with: Records (degrees & certificates)
[email protected]

Cesar Cardenas
Languages: Spanish, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Transcript Requests 
[email protected]

Nitha Vasquez
Languages: Spanish, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Cashier & Refunds/Census Rosters 
[email protected]


Financial Aid/Outreach

Lucia Moreno
Languages: Spanish, English
Financial Aid/Outreach
Can help with: Scholarship/ AB540 & Mission Promise 
[email protected]


Counseling

Read about what languages our counselors speak.


MESA

Edrina Rashidi 
Languages: Assyrian, Spanish 
MESA
Can help with: how to get started, enrollment; courses in math/science/engineering, financial aid applications, information about special programs, and to gather information for the student from other departments.
[email protected]

Vietnamese
Welcome Center / Registration

Julie Vu
Languages: Vietnamese, English
Welcome Center 
Can Help With: Enrollment, Registration, Tours, Admissions, Portal & Canvas Navigations, Reset Pin, FAFSA, CCC apply and general questions.
[email protected]


Admissions & Records

Diemanh Le
Languages: Vietnamese, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Missing Grades/Liaison to Office of Instruction
[email protected]


Financial Aid

Ngoclien Nguyen
Languages: Vietnamese, English
Financial Aid 
Can help with: FAFAS, CCPG, Pell grants
[email protected]


Counseling

See languages our counselors speak.


Technology Questions

Patrick Ly
Languages: Cantonese, Vietnamese
Educational Technology Services
Can help with: Technology services
[email protected]

Arabic
HSI – STEM

Raiida Thompson
Languages: Arabic
HSI-STEM
Can help with: Summer research, and/or internship opportunities, Women in STEM Mentorship Program, connections to relevant faculty/staff at CSUEB and/or SJSU in a STEM program, and questions regarding our STEM Learning Center. 
[email protected]

Cantonese / Mandarin

Michael Lau
Languages: Cantonese, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Veteran Certifying Official
[email protected]


Technology Questions

Patrick Ly
Languages: Cantonese, Vietnamese
Educational Technology Services
Can help with: Technology services
[email protected]

Farsi

Eleen Badal Abdishou 
Languages: Farsi, English
Financial Aid 
Can help with: Financial Literacy, FAFSA, CCPG, Pell Grants, Student Loans 
[email protected]

Bianka Guardino 
Languages: Assyrian, Farsi
Counseling
Can help with: academic, career and personal counseling
[email protected]

Hindi

Priyanka Dinesh
Languages: Hindi
Counseling
Can help with: Counseling and related questions
[email protected]

Umera Ameen
Languages: Hindi, Urdu
Counseling
Can help with: counseling and related questions
[email protected]

Tagalog
Admissions & Records

Jhonaliza Villanueva
Languages: Tagalog, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: CCCApply Applications
[email protected]


Financial Aid

Marie Rancap 
Languages: Tagalog, English
Financial Aid 
Can help with: Verification, CCPG, FAFSA, Pell Grants 
[email protected]

Roehl Galang 
Languages: Tagalog, English
Financial Aid 
Can help with: Cal Grant information, FAFSA, SSC Grants 
[email protected]

Japanese

Chigusa Katoku
Languages: Japanese, English
Can help with: International Students, Registration
[email protected]


Departments That Speak Your Language
Admissions & Records

Cesar Cardenas
Languages: Spanish, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Transcript Requests
[email protected]

Diemanh Le
Languages: Vietnamese, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Missing Grades/Liaison to Office of Instruction
[email protected]

Jhonaliza Villanueva
Languages: Tagalog, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: CCCApply Applications
[email protected]

Michael Lau
Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Veteran Certifying Official
[email protected]

Nitha Vasquez
Languages: Spanish, English
Admissions & Records
Can help with: Cashier & Refunds/Census Rosters
[email protected]

Epigmenio Vega-Vasquez Bustamante
Languages: Spanish, English
Can help with: Admissions & Records
Can I help with: Records (degrees & certificates)
[email protected]

Financial Aid

Eleen Badal Abdishou
Languages: Farsi, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: Financial Literacy, FAFSA, CCPG, Pell Grants, Student Loans
[email protected]

Ngoclien Nguyen
Languages: Vietnamese, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: FAFAS, CCPG, Pell Grants
[email protected]

Lucia Moreno
Languages: Spanish, English
Financial Aid/Outreach
Can help with: Scholarship/ AB540 & Mission Promise
[email protected]

Marie Rancap
Languages: Tagalog, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: Verification, CCPG, FAFSA, Pell Grants, Work Study
[email protected]

Roehl Galang
Languages: Tagalog, English
Financial Aid
Can help with: Cal Grant, FAFSA, SSC Grants
[email protected]

 
Welcome Center
Welcome Center / Registration

Julie Vu
Languages: Vietnamese, English
Welcome Center
Can Help With: Enrollment, Registration, Tours, Admissions, Portal & Canvas Navigations, Reset Pin, FAFSA, CCC apply and general questions.
[email protected]

The Welcome Center also has a number of ambassadors that speak different languages. Please ask and we will do the best we can to accommodate.

International Center

Chigusa Katoku
International Center Director
Languages: Japanese, English
Can help with: being an international student, student visas, international work study, registration, applying as an internatioanl student, international programs, studying abroad
[email protected]

Other Areas of Campus
HSI – STEM

Raiida Thompson
Languages: Arabic
HSI-STEM
Can help with: Summer research, and/or internship opportunities, Women in STEM Mentorship Program, connections to relevant faculty/staff at CSUEB and/or SJSU in a STEM program, and questions regarding our STEM Learning Center.
[email protected]


MESA

Edrina Rashidi
Languages: Assyrian, Spanish
MESA
Can help with: how to get started, enrollment; courses in math/science/engineering, financial aid applications, information about special programs, and to gather information for the student from other departments.
[email protected]

Xuan Lu - Languages: Vietnamese
Student Services
Can help with: EOPS, Financial Aid, Enrollment, Assessment Tests, DSPS, STEM
[email protected]


Technology Questions

Patrick Ly
Languages: Cantonese, Vietnamese
Educational Technology Services
Can help with: Technology services
[email protected]