Located between the Pacific Ocean and downtown Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount University is a comprehensive university offering 60 major programs, 55 minor undergraduate degrees and programs. The Graduate Division offers 39 master’s degree programs and one education doctorate, one juris doctorate and 10 credential programs. 
 
Founded in 1911, LMU is ranked third in “Best Regional Universities (West)” by U.S. News and World Report. LMU is the largest Jesuit Catholic university for undergraduates on the West Coast, with more than 6,000 undergraduate students and more than 3,000 graduate and law students. The state-of-the-art The William H. Hannon Library rates among the 20 best in the country according to The Princeton Review’s guide to “The Best 378 Colleges,” 2014. Bloomberg Businessweek ranks LMU sixth in the nation and third in the West in its 2013 Part-Time MBA rankings.

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Kristo V. Gobin is a first-generation college student, and received his master’s degree in communication studies from San Jose State University. His academic interests are performance studies, gender communication and critical race theory. At LMU, he has taught CMST 110 - Interpersonal Communication, CMST 204 - Introduction to Research in Communication and CMST 393 - Performance Culture and Sexualities. In addition to teaching at LMU, Kristo also tours colleges and universities with a performance piece that he wrote entitled “That’s So Gay!”

Kristo Gobin

Biography

Education

San Jose State University