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aB o ut the autho r s Laura Greenfield is associate director of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts; coordinator of the Speaking, Arguing, and Writing Program; and lecturer in the English Department. Her recent work explores language diversity, racism, and pedagogy with a focus on opportunities for educators to enact revolutionary social change. Karen Rowan is assistant professor of English at California State University–San Bernardino. She served as co-coordinator for the IWCA Collaborative@CCCC (2010-11) and as a leader for the IWCA Summer Institute (2010). Her previous scholarship has investigated graduate student writing center administrators and writing centers in minority serving institutions, and she is currently focusing on intersections of power, identity, literacy, and learning in Hispanic Serving Institutions. • Meg Carroll is co-author of The Everyday Writing Center (2007) and is director emeritus of the Rhode Island College writing center. Jane Cogie is associate professor of English and director of the writing center at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale. Her recent scholarship includes a collaboratively written piece on the benefits and challenges associated with classroom-based tutoring and an article on issues related to involving ELL students in their writing center sessions. Frankie Condon is associate professor of English and faculty coordinator of the writing center at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is co-author of The Everyday Writing Center (2007). Other publications include “Beyond the Known: Writing Centers and the Work of Anti-Racism”; “Dynamic Complexity: Teaching, Learning, Politics”; and “A Place Where There Isn’t Any Trouble” (in Code-Meshing as World English). Frankie’s current projects include a book on anti-racist epistemology and rhetoric. Jason Esters is lecturer at the Community College of Philadelphia. Anne Ellen Geller is associate professor of English and director of writing across the curriculum in the Institute for Writing Studies at St. John’s University, Queens, NY. She is co-author, with Michele Eodice, Frankie Condon, Meg Carroll and Elizabeth Boquet, of The Everyday Writing Center (2007). Beth Godbee is assistant professor at Marquette University. She has worked in writing centers in K–university and community settings, exploring the potentials for social change in one-with-one talk about writing. She served as a graduate student representative in both the IWCA and MWCA and remains actively involved in these organizations’ special interest groups on antiracist activism. Barbara Gordon is associate professor of English at Elon University where she founded the university’s writing center and has served in a variety of writing program administrative positions. In addition to publications about writing centers and teaching writing, About the Authors 303 she was the lead author for the book Breast Cancer Recurrence and Advanced Disease: Comprehensive Expert Guidance (2010). Ann Green is professor of English and graduate director of the writing studies program at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. She is also the founding director of the SJU writing center (1998-2004). She currently chairs the American Association of University Professors committee on women in the profession—“Committee W.” Her most recent publication is “Local Politics and Voice: Speaking to be Heard” in Academic Cultures: Professional Preparation and the Teaching Life (2008). Nancy Grimm is professor of humanities and director of the Michigan Tech University multiliteracies center. From 1990 to 1994, she co-edited, with Diana George and Ed Lotto, The Writing Center Journal. In addition to essays and chapters about writing center work, her publications include Good Intentions (1999) and Social Change in Diverse Teaching Contexts (with Nancy Barron and Sibylle Gruber, 2006). Grimm has twice received the scholarship award from NWCA (now IWCA). Michelle T. Johnson is the former chair of the department of English and foreign languages at Livingstone College. As the founder and executive director for Tri-Sight, Inc., an educational consulting firm, she trains teachers and administrators in racial literacy and writing instruction to minority and underserved populations. She also teaches adjunct courses in writing and in African American studies in the North Carolina Triad area. Moira Ozias currently serves as associate director in learning, teaching, writing at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to tutoring, leading and researching in writing centers , she has also worked as a social worker with community organizations in the Midwest and continues to explore the possibilities of community–university partnerships for social justice. She has also been actively involved in the MWCA, SCWCA and IWCA, including special interest groups on antiracist activism. Mónica Torres is associate professor of English at New Mexico...

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