Roland Fisch is a 33 year veteran professor with FKCC.  He received his BA and MA in Anthropology from Ohio State.  His classes focus Florida natural history, Florida’s flora and fauna and the Everglades.

Roland first visited the Florida Keys in 1955 and “it was love at first site.” Now he and his wife Cheryl call the Keys home. 

Check back for more information of Roland Fisch coming soon.

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Carrie Caignet is a Florida native and a Maritime Historian with a passion for the sea.  She has worked on the water for most of her life as a marine mammal trainer, SCUBA Instructor and Naturalist on Florida’s Gulf Coast in the Florida Keys and abroad.

She is a lifelong learner herself and has studied the fields of marine biology, psychology and history. In addition to teaching for the Lifelong Learning Center of the Florida Keys, she is LLCFK’s program coordinator who works behind the scenes to coordinate curiculum, manage the website and supports our instructors as well as the  Advisory Council.

“Learning is a journey and not a destination. It allows us to explore the world, ourselves and how the two correlate.”

Carrie attended Eckerd College and studied the humanities with a focus on local history and folk life.  Since 2001, she has worked as a Curator and Director of museums and historic attractions as well as a consultant on heritage tourism, collections management and technology with a variety of organizations including:

• Cape Cod Museum of Natural History         
• Florida Keys History of Diving Museum
• Florida Keys Shipwreck Museum 
• Florida Maritime Heritage Association
• NAUI Worldwide
• US Fish and Wildlife Service                    
• Spanish Main Treasure Company             
• St. Petersburg Museum of History
• SS American Victory Museum Ship          
• Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary                   

She is a charter member of the Florida Maritime Heritage Association and is currently working on documenting oral history of those who work in maritime trades throughout Florida.

She received another research assistantship at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale to study for a Ph. D. Anne was the only female graduate student in the anthropology/archeology department.

While enrolled in the doctorate program at SIU, she did the preliminary archival  research of Fort Massac, a pre colonial on the Ohio River, served as archeologist and supervisor of the classification and cataloguing of artifacts, in charge of several undergraduate students.

After moving to Miami, Anne was employed by the University of Miami at the main campus’s Center for Urban Research and the Virginia Key Rosensteil School of Marine Sciences. During this time she studied Marine Biology where she began her love of the ocean and all its creatures.

She moved to the Keys and had such jobs as dolphin trainer, tropical fish collector, real estate property manager, and marine science education.

She worked as instructor at several of the Keys marine science schools: Marine Resources Development Foundation in Key Largo and Marine Science Under Sails who carried out marine science studies at the Koblick Marine Center, The Boy Scout Sea Base, and Pennekamp Park as well as aboard sailing ships.

 Anne purchased a 36 foot houseboat and was one of the first to run ecotours in 1985.  While operating from the Sheraton Hotel, she gave slide shows every Tuesday night. Subsequently she ran eco tours boats for several firms in the Upper Keys area. Since 1997 she has been owner operator of Easy Adventures from World Wide Sportsman.

Ambassador Siljander is uniquely qualified to engage the Muslim world. He is a student of several languages, including Arabic, Aramaic, and Hebrew, and has spent over ten years studying the three Holy Books of the Abrahamic faiths. With over 24 years serving in the power circles of Washington and semi-official travel to nearly 130 countries, he has generated unique opportunities for frequent access to world leaders. These experiences have led him to develop a unique paradigm for the peaceful resolution of conflict that has been successfully applied in several challenging areas of the globe. These methods are outlined in his bestselling and  award winning book, A Deadly Misunderstanding (released by Harper Collins)., that deals with building bridges to the Islamic world and strategies to thwart the growing threat of terrorism.

 Mark Siljander reinforces his conflict resolution efforts through regular travel overseas with Congressional and high-level delegations. These trips typically are in coordination with the bipartisan, US House and Senate Leadership Breakfast Groups, which attract nearly 1/3 of each chamber. These Leadership Groups work in conjunction with sister parliamentary groups in dozens of countries.

Congressman Siljander has received acclaim for his work in reconciliation. He received various leadership awards, including the 1996 Mohandas K. Gandhi International Peace Award, for “…recognition of his courageous statesmanship in international reconciliation.” In addition, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright honored Ambassador Siljander, at the United Nations, for his “…efforts toward a more just, humane and peaceful world.” American and international Muslim leaders have lauded Siljander for his compassion and understanding of their culture and distinctive approach to bridge-building techniques.

Dr. Siljander is widely recognized as an effective public speaker. He previously produced two radio commentaries, It’s Your America, heard regularly over 260 US radio stations, and Asia in View, broadcast throughout Asia. During his tenure in Congress. He has been President of Global Strategies, a strategic planning, marketing, and public relations company since 1987.

His complementary academic pursuits include Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Political Science, a Ph.D. in International Business, Doctorate in Humanities (Hon.) and has pursued postgraduate studies in education. He serves on the Advisory Board of Samford University in Bangladesh, the UN chartered US Federation for Middle East Peace, served as advisor at Edinburgh University Center for Muslim Christian Studies and has lectured in such diverse institutions as Oxford to Khartoum University Law School.

Dr. Siljander will be teaching a course for the Lifelong Learning Center based on his recent book, A Deadly Misunderstanding.

SAVE THE DATE:  Open House will be on February 12th from 10:00am – noon at the Pink Plaza, Suite #239 (second floor in the Workforce Offices)

Courses will be held at “The Pink Plaza” | 103400 Overseas Highway in Key Largo from February 22-March 26, 2010