Steve Cosentino has taught accounting full time at PLNU since 2004 and has been instrumental in helping to build the strong accounting program of the Fermanian School of Business (FSB). Prior to his academic career, he spent over 25 years in various management and accounting positions in the San Diego area. Cosentino began his career in public accounting at a local San Diego CPA firm, and he continues to consult professionally.

Daphney Wadley has been teaching at PLNU since 2016, and has worked in the field of family and child development for 15 years. She has directed family and children programming in community nonprofit organizations like City Tree Christian School in downtown San Diego. She teaches courses for PLNU's Accelerated Undergraduate Program and the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, and supervises field study and internships in her role as a preschool director. Training new leaders in the field of Child Development is her greatest passion.

Margaret Wing-Peterson is a registered dietitian whose career has focused on health promotion and nutrition education for the public and for professionals in medicine, nursing, dentistry, health education, and culinary. She feels fortunate to have opportunities to integrate nutrition science with her interests in cultural food patterns, consumer behavior, food, and culinary science.

Cindy Swann has been teaching at PLNU since 2002, and in the dietetics field for 30 years. She has directed an accredited dietetic internship, and is now responsible for the accreditation of the undergraduate Didactic Program in Dietetics at PLNU. She maintains her clinical expertise by working per diem as an outpatient dietetic counselor, specializing in diabetes education. On campus, she is the advisor to the Student Dietetic Association club and serves on the Wellness Committee.

Cindy Swann has been teaching at PLNU since 2002, and in the dietetics field for 30 years. She has directed an accredited dietetic internship, and is now responsible for the accreditation of the undergraduate Didactic Program in Dietetics at PLNU. She maintains her clinical expertise by working per diem as an outpatient dietetic counselor, specializing in diabetes education. On campus, she is the advisor to the Student Dietetic Association club and serves on the Wellness Committee.

Aleta Slater is an experienced teacher and administrator at both the elementary and early childhood levels. She taught kindergarten through second grade at the elementary level for many years before becoming an elementary principal in the Northwest. Her keen interest and passion for early childhood led her to found and direct two different church-related preschools during her career. She returned to her alma mater to become site director of the Early Childhood Learning Center, PLNU’s campus preschool, in 2003.

Dr. Jody Roubanis studied dietetics and food administration at California State University, where she earned her teaching credential in family and consumer sciences. She completed her masters and doctorate degrees at North Carolina State University while she was teaching at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her most recent scholarship focuses on the ethics promoted in the family and consumer sciences body of knowledge. Roubanis is passionate about helping youth realize their potential through faith and career opportunities.

Susan DeCristofaro Rogers has taught at Point Loma Nazarene University for over 27 years, integrating her passion for early childhood and special needs. She is the academic director of the early childhood learning center, PLNU’s on-campus, laboratory preschool. She has a B.A. in Child Development and an M.A. in Teaching and Learning from PLNU.

Susan DeCristofaro Rogers has taught at Point Loma Nazarene University for over 27 years, integrating her passion for early childhood and special needs. She is the academic director of the early childhood learning center, PLNU’s on-campus, laboratory preschool. She has a B.A. in Child Development and an M.A. in Teaching and Learning from PLNU.

Having served as a classroom teacher and school principal, Dr. Ray Posey chose to leave K-12 education to earn a doctorate at Vanderbilt University in Nashville to teach at the university level and work with preservice teachers prior to their entrance into the field. Helping teacher education candidate see teaching as an art, as something creative, is Posey's goal with all his students. It is his aim that every student leaves his class just a bit more creative than they were when they came into the course.