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Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with Alexis Tarley

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Nov 11, 2024

Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with Dajha Houston

Instructional Technologist Dajha Houston brought her many years of classroom teaching experience to bear on her work at DELTA. 
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Oct 29, 2024

Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with Andrew Wiedner

DELTA Multimedia Specialist Andrew Wiedner flexes his design and illustrative muscles to help tell DELTA’s story through interactive, media-focused web applications. 
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Sep 27, 2024

Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with Mike Cuales

As DELTA’s Director of Digital Media Innovation, Cuales serves as a creative digital strategist and storyteller. He manages a diverse team of designers, developers and video producers in the creation of innovative multimedia learning experiences. 
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Aug 16, 2024

Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with Chris Willis

Chris Willis is kinda judgy — in a professionally judgy kinda way. His role as Associate Director for DELTA Research and Analysis was once described to him as being “professionally judgmental.”  “I get to ask questions for a living, and as a result I get to share what folks think, feel and do,” Willis explained.… 
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Jul 12, 2024

Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with Carrie Helms

“Wake up, drink coffee, be awesome.” This is how Carrie Helms starts her days, though recently she’s cut back her coffee consumption to one or two cups a day, which she enjoys with Chobani White Chocolate Raspberry creamer. “Holy smokes,” she said of the Chobani. “It’s all one needs in life.” In her approach to… 
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Jun 28, 2024

Meet our People: Inside DELTA 2023-2024 Roundup

Our 2023-24 Inside DELTA staff profiles demonstrate the breadth of our people's talents and interests both in and out of the workplace. Learn about this unique cross-section of team members. 
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Jun 25, 2024

Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with Alin Yalcinkaya

Cosmopolitan.  Get to know Alin Yalcinkaya (pronounced uh-LEAN) even a little bit, and the word will almost certainly come to mind.  Born in Erzincan, Türkiye, Yalcinkaya was educated in Türkiye, Italy, New York City and Raleigh, has lived in Istanbul, Salerno, and Manhattan and has traveled across Europe, the eastern U.S. and some of East… 
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Jun 11, 2024

Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with James Perry

If you’ve had a good experience at a DELTA event in the last couple years, you probably have James Perry to thank.  As the primary event planner for many all-DELTA events and activities, Perry makes sure the drinks are cold, vegetarians have options and everyone is having a good time celebrating one another’s accomplishments or… 
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May 21, 2024

Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with Grace Hatterschide

When it comes to educational technology, Grace Hatterschide is a self-described geek.  Hatterschide embraces her inner geek, or — more professionally — her deep interest in the theory and application of various technologies to create transformative learning experiences and outcomes for students and instructors in higher education. “I call it LearnTech geekiness,” she said.  Less… 
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Apr 30, 2024

Inside DELTA: 5 Questions with Alexis Tarley

When she was 12, DELTA Testing Associate Alexis Tarley decided on her dream job in her dream city: an archivist with the National Archives in Washington, D.C.  Not the most obvious answer for a tween girl. It’s been another dozen years since then, and Tarley is still pursuing her dream — via North Carolina. A…