About Lomacast: A Point Loma Nazarene University Podcast
Join us as we dive into engaging conversations with faculty, students, alumni, and thought leaders who are making a difference on campus and beyond. Each episode explores a range of topics from academic excellence to spiritual growth and social impact. Whether you are part of the PLNU community or simply curious, this podcast offers insights and uplifting narratives that resonate with our purpose.
The mission of the Health Promotion Center is to improve health by providing a compassionate and collaborative approach to care that addresses the physical, psychological, social, and cultural factors impacting patients.
Dr. Kristen Kellogg serves as the Director of the Health Promotion Center and has been working as a family nurse practitioner in primary care settings for low-income immigrant and homeless populations since 2018. She graduated from PLNU with her BSN in 2013 and received her MSN through Azusa Pacific University in 2018. She has a passion for working in underserved communities and for helping teach students in these socially complex patient settings.
Dr. Amanda Thurman is a PLNU alum (BSN '93) and has been a family nurse practitioner since 2001. She earned her MSN from California State Dominguez Hills in 2001 and completed her DNP at Azusa Pacific University in 2022. She has worked at the Health Promotion Center since 2007 and is an adjunct professor in the School of Nursing.
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2 Oct 2026
#36 – Dr. Katie Manning
Dr. Katie Manning serves as Professor of Writing and is a PLNU alumna who joined the faculty full time in 2015. She teaches a variety of writing and literature courses, specializing in poetry and women writers, with intersecting interests in literary publishing and linguistics. Manning is the author of six poetry chapbooks, and her first full-length poetry collection, Tasty Other, won the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Her writing has been published in American Journal of Nursing, The Lascaux Review, Mom Egg Review, New Letters, Poet Lore, Stirring, THRUSH, Verse Daily, and many other journals and anthologies, and her poem “What to Expect” was the season three finale on the Poetry Unbound podcast from The On Being Project. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Whale Road Review: A Journal of Poetry & Short Prose.
https://www.pointloma.edu/faculty/katie-manning-phd
25 Sept 2026
#35 – Dr. Lisa Raser
Dr. Lisa Raser joined the faculty at PLNU in 2016 after teaching at Humboldt State University. She brings experience teaching a wide variety of courses, including organizational communication, gender and communication, interpersonal communication, and a special topics course she designed entitled peace building and conflict resolution. Her particular interests focus on nonviolent communication and the communication of empathy, topics she loves to share with her students. An ethic of care is at the center or her teaching philosophy and also informs her research. For her dissertation research, Raser conducted an analysis of student letters to study the communication of care between students and teachers in university classrooms. She is a "life-long" communication major and enjoys learning about how to create and facilitate meaningful relationships alongside her students.
https://www.pointloma.edu/faculty/lisa-raser-phd
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