Community Partners

Umbrella Group (Our Core Group of Organizers)

• Rosemary Beach, Chair (Retired, former Executive Director of the Cedar Falls Historical Society)
• Jan Andersen (Retired, former Cedar Falls Tourism & Visitors Bureau)
• Mary Brammer (Cedar Falls Public Art Committee member
• Scott Cawelti (Retired UNI Professor and Cedar Falls author)
• Cherie Dargan (Retired Professor, Hawkeye Community College and Cedar Falls author)
• Barbara Lounsberry (Retired UNI Professor and Cedar Falls author)
• Kim Manning (Manager, Cedar Falls Tourism & Visitors Bureau)
• Mary Taylor (Director of Development, Western Home Communities)

Festival Contributors Committee

• Cedar Falls Arts & Culture Board-- James Kerns, President
• Cedar Falls Arts & Culture Board-- Kate Brennan Hall, Vice President
• Cedar Falls Cable Channel 15 --Denny Bowman
• Cedar Falls Community Schools--Andy Patee, Superintendent
• Cedar Falls Community Schools Curriculum-- Christine Mangrick
• Cedar Falls Community Schools Curriculum -- Megann Tresemer
• Cedar Falls Community Main Street-- Carol Lilly
• Cedar Falls Community Theatre-- John Luzaich
• Cedar Falls Historic Preservation Commission, UNI history professor-- Tom Connors
• Cedar Falls Historic Preservation Commission-- Iris Lehmann
• Cedar Falls Historical Society-- Karen Smith
• Cedar Falls Municipal Band -- Dennis Downs
• Cedar Falls Public Library-- Sheryl McGovern,
• Gallagher Bluedorn Performing Arts Center, UNI-- Steve Carignan
• Hartman Reserve Nature Center-- Ed Gruenwald and Connie Slovada
• Hearst Center for the Arts--Martin Arthur and Emily Drennan
• Hearst Center “Final Thursday Reading Series,” James O’Loughlin, UNI English professor (and Cedar Falls author)
• New Aldaya-- Millisa Tierney, Director
• North American Review, Jeremy Schraffenberger, co-editor UNI English professor (and Cedar Falls author)
• Sturgis Youth Theatre, UNI-Theater--Gretta Berghammer, professor
• UNI English Department (and Cedar Falls author)--Julie Husband, Head and (and Cedar Falls author)
• UNI Theatre Department-- Eric Lange, Head,
• UNI education professor, Kathy Oakland, programs at New Aldaya & the Western Home Communities
• UNI Rod Library and Museum -- Christopher Cox, Dean and Director and Clint Wrede and Nathan Arndt

Cedar Falls Authors Festival made possible by:

• Cedar Falls Community Foundation – The Saul and Joan Diamond Community Enhancement Grant
• Cedar Falls Tourism and Visitors Bureau
• Western Home Communities

Some of our Partners

A SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING FOLKS--

• Cable Channel 15
• Cedar Falls Public Library
• Hearst Center for the Arts
• UNI Rod Library
• Cedar Falls Tourism and Visitors Bureau
• The Waterloo Courier
• Currents
• The College Hill Partnership
• The Seerley Park Neighborhood

Organizations participating, with Web links

Last Updated May 13, 2018