Emmanuel Sigauke, founder and editor of Munyori Literary Journal and Munyori Press, is the author of Mukoma’s Marriage and other Stories, a finalist for the 2015 NAMA awards, Zimbabwe, Forever Let Me Go, and A House for Mother, poetry collections.  He is also co-editor of the collections Roses for Betty, and Sundown, as well as the African Roar series. Sigauke taught English at Cosumnes River College for seventeen years and is now the Dean of English and Language Studies. He is currently working on a collection of poetry tentatively entitled A Sack of Words. 

Heather Hutcheson has taught at CRC since Spring 2002; she is proud to be the founding editor of the Cosumnes River Journal.

For fifteen years, she organized an annual senior and student memoir conference, “Our Life Stories.”

Before the pandemic, she facilitated a weekly language exchange between day laborers and community college students in a Home Depot parking lot. This exchange was a good way for her to continue learning Spanish in a dynamic "classroom." Read more about the efforts here.

She loves teaching and learning, so she teaches English with a micro-finance program in Oaxaca, Mexico for a month most summers.

A former editor of Poetry Now, she has also worked as a journalist for The Desert Sentinel and The Atascadero News and has been published in numerous publications, including the American Journal of Public Health. She believes in practicing what she "preaches."

Please visit her website for more information. 

Katy Wilson is a research and evaluation professional specializing in mixed-methods and qualitative research. She is a faculty researcher at Cosumnes River College, where she is passionate about emphasizing student voices in college planning.

Katy has local and international research and evaluation experience, having served education programs and nonprofits in California, Myanmar, México, Argentina, and France. Katy speaks Spanish and French and her love for languages, literature, and cross-cultural education drives her passion for grassroots community development and qualitative research.

Katy is an outdoor adventure enthusiast, animal lover, gardener, yoga teacher, and sustainability advocate.

Amber Le has been a student assistant in several English classrooms for over two years at Cosumnes River College, where she has hosted grammar and AI workshops centered around student participation and experimentation. She is continuing her education at Sacramento State University with the intent of becoming an English college professor and has interned at their Reading & Writing Center, gaining firsthand experience tutoring students across different subjects and conducting research on tutoring pedagogy and philosophy, more of which can be read about here. 

Tricia Moss is an Honors student at Cosumnes River College, a January 2023 English Writing Intensive alum, and a three-time student assistant in the course. Tricia is planning to transfer to UC Davis for Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior.