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title: "Our Faculty"
date: 2023-08-25
author: "Michelle Yan"
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# Our Faculty

#  [ Our Faculty ](#) 

 [Home](https://academy.digipen.edu/) / [About Us](https://academy.digipen.edu/about-us/) / Our Faculty##  Our passionate faculty works together to deliver the best to our students 

At DigiPen Academy, we take a student-centered approach to education that focuses on each student’s growth, goals and gifts. We meet each student where they’re at, helping them to discover new talents and interests, and assigning them projects that build their confidence, while developing their creative and technical skills.

Each of our instructors is up-to-date on current industry best practices, which means that while our courses may be grounded in theory, our students graduate with “real world” skills.

###  DigiPen Academy Faculty 

 ![DigiPen Academy Team Member Ray Yan](https://ewsx9umvbe9.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/600x600_DigiPen_Team_YanR-1.jpg?strip=all&resize=600%2C600 "600x600 DigiPen Team YanR")#####  Raymond Yan Senior Executive VP 

 ![DigiPen Academy Logo white on transparent](https://ewsx9umvbe9.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/600x600_DigiPen_Team_Generic.png?strip=all&resize=600%2C600 "600x600 DigiPen Team Generic")#####  Michelle Yan K12 Programs Director 

 ![DigiPen Academy Team Member Adrienne Co](https://ewsx9umvbe9.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/600x600_DigiPen_Team_CoA_2025-1.jpg?strip=all&resize=600%2C599 "600x600 DigiPen Team CoA 2025")#####  Adrienne Co Programs Coordinator 

 ![DigiPen Team Rachel Kudlacz](https://ewsx9umvbe9.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/600x600_DigiPen_Team_KudlaczR.jpg?strip=all&resize=600%2C600 "DigiPen Team Rachel Kudlacz")#####  Rachel Kudlacz Academic Programs Student Support and Outreach Coordinator 

 ![DigiPen Academy Team Member Owens](https://ewsx9umvbe9.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/600x600_DigiPen_Team_OwensM.jpg?strip=all&resize=600%2C600 "600x600 DigiPen Team OwensM")#####  Michael Owens Art & Animation Instructor 

 ![DigiPen Academy Team Member Scheppler Sabin](https://ewsx9umvbe9.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/600x600_DigiPen_Team_SabinC.jpg?strip=all&resize=600%2C600 "600x600 DigiPen Team SabinC")#####  Chris Sabin Music & Sound Design Instructor 

 ![600x600 DigiPen Team SeitzZ 2025 2](https://ewsx9umvbe9.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/600x600_DigiPen_Team_SeitzZ_2025-2.jpg?strip=all&resize=600%2C600 "600x600 DigiPen Team SeitzZ 2025 2")#####  Zev Seitz Game Design Instructor 

 ![DigiPen Academy Team Member Jacques Stevens](https://ewsx9umvbe9.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/600x600_DigiPen_Team_StevensJ_2025-1.jpg?strip=all&resize=600%2C600 "600x600 DigiPen Team StevensJ 2025")#####  Jacques Stevens Art & Animation Instructor 

 ![600x600 DigiPen Team CamarilloF 2025](https://ewsx9umvbe9.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/600x600_DigiPen_Team_CamarilloF_2025.jpg?strip=all&resize=600%2C600 "600x600 DigiPen Team CamarilloF 2025")#####  Frankie Camarillo Game Programming Instructor 

##  The DigiPen Difference 

 [ About DigiPen ](https://academy.digipen.edu/about-us/)#### We are aligned with one of the world’s top video game design schools

For more than 20 years, DigiPen Academy has been delivering leading-edge, STEAM-based programs to students in public schools, summer camps and workshops across North America. The Academy is a place where students can learn, create, experiment and explore, as they discover new passions, talents and careers.

Our programs are designed to teach high school students the skills, approach and work ethic they need to succeed in college and beyond. Students who learned to code, draw and design with us have gone on to build successful careers at some of the world’s leading tech companies, game studios, and startups.

 ![DigiPen academy icon quotation mark](https://ewsx9umvbe9.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/DigiPen_Icons-quote-mark-white_NF.svg "DigiPen Icons quote mark white NF")####  A word from a Parent… 

Both my children attended WANIC, one attended the two year art program and the other the two year music program.

Although they came from outstanding high schools with excellent faculty, the immersive nature of this program allowed both of my children to flourish and obtain skills that will carry them throughout their professional lives and endeavors. They have both reached a competency level that either allowed them to or will allow them to apply to art programs in the future as they created enough original work in their classes to showcase their talents. My oldest child, is attending DigiPen Institute this Fall, and will be working towards a BA in Music and Sound Design.

At first, I was hesitant to disrupt my children’s high school “status quo”, as I was worried that the WANIC schedule would limit social opportunities. Quite the opposite, in fact! The WANIC program’s intimate setting is the perfect atmosphere to connect with like minded peers, and the low teacher student ratio allows students to get to know teachers and faculty personally, preparing them for not just college life but the real world.

I don’t have enough good things to say about the WANIC program. Both the two year immersive program and the summer WANIC classes are outstanding opportunities for high school students to gain skills, meet other like minded students and achieve their professional goals and aspirations in a supportive and inclusive environment.

*– Cima, Parent*

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