John Muir College - Celebrating the Independent Spirit


Jamie Browning, Program Assistant

Jamie is a curmudgeonly alien from London, England. He loves The Tubes. He has exquisite taste in music. Right now, he thinks Nina Simone is the best artist ever. He also loves roots reggae. He has a beautiful wife, Manda, who is a math grad and super-TA and a loving dog called Shelby who is into smells, sleeping and leaning into stuff. When he’s not here, he's on the board of Self Reliance House, a not-for-profit which provides media for homeless people. He’s an unrepentant gamer, his first love is Magic, and he also plays WoW. Jamie went to an international school in New Mexico and then Sussex University in England for Philosophy for a year before he ran away to get married. His favorite quote is from Reservoir Dogs, but it has a bad word in it. Jamie is a Radical Feminist Anarchist Marxist who thinks the Patriarchy sells some neat products. From time to time, he assists The Program.

Keiko Sanders, Fiscal Assistant


Keiko is both fabulous and beautiful. Without her, all would be lost. She is also a dark horse at the game of jai a'lai. She cannot stand Kristin Chenoweth. Her favorite musician is Bjork.


Kim Leary, Morning Receptionist

This is Rickey (Kim's son) and here are some facts on my mom:  she is loving and kind, she is in karate and is a black belt candidate, only person known to get a speeding ticket on a moped, married 26 years, and leads a secret life as a secret asian man. And here's a 80's picture of my mom.

This is Rick (Kim' Husband ) more about Kim.  She has been married for twenty six years.   She graduated for San Diego State University with a BA in Drama and then went on to Graduate School at University of San Diego left there with a Doctorate in Jurisprudence and went on to take her to become a lawyer.  The problem was that she care about people and their pursue for happiness.  Kim wanted a child (I did too), we had and have a wonderful boy.  She became a stayed at home mom.  Kim is a great dedicated mom and wonderful loving wife.  She is the nicest, most generous friend I have ever known.  I could go on but I think this is supposed to be a short biography.

Melissa Keith, Afternoon Receptionist

Melissa has an unusual penchant for buggery.  She hates whiny girls on lifelong diets, roller-coasters, cheesy love stories, raisins, baby’s breath and carnations, weathermen, meek people, gypsies, pick-pockets on the metro, water balloons, wasting time on technicalities, boys that act like turds, math, living in snow, American Idol, pompous rich people, gardening, tailgaters, wannabe bad-asses and cats without personality. 

She loves ending with a positive note, crossing the line, bottom-of-the-ninth-3-balls-2-strikes-baseball, video games that contain fighting, comics, snappy poetry, zombies, writing, funny dogs, roses, The Beatles, people who say what they mean, a guy named Andy, fire, marmosets, freshly shaved legs, pajama bottoms, pub talk, London, her family, kindred spirits, Harry Potter, tulips, short stories with a twist, horror movies, the White Stripes, Flogging Molly, Star Wars, chocolate chip cookies, Guinness, and people who tell off-color jokes.

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