Welcome to Cabrillo. I've been teaching English courses full time at our college since 2000. My Master of Arts degree is in English, Teaching of Composition, from San Francisco State University. I am a native New Yorker from the city of Flushing in the borough of Queens. My hobbies include playing chess, playing guitar, collecting baseball cards (primarily New York Mets). My work at Cabrillo has also included being the past department chair of Journalism and teaching the newspaper production courses.

Please reach out to me for help and from all our wonderful support services at Cabrillo. We are here to help you succeed, so building community is a key step to our general well being and to engage regularly and successfully with our academic studies. If you have questions, please email me at dasheftm@cabrillo.edu.