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Duane Roen is emeritus professor of English at Arizona State University, where he has served as dean of the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts; dean of University College; vice provost of the Polytechnic campus, faculty head of Interdisciplinary Studies; faculty head of Humanities and Arts; director of Composition; co-director of the graduate program in Rhetoric, Composition, and Linguistics; director of the Center for Learning and Teaching Excellence; and president of the University Senate. 

He has served as secretary of the Conference on College Composition and Communication and president of the Council of Writing Program Administrators. He has produced more than 300 books, articles, chapters, and conference papers, broadly focused on teaching writing.

Dr. Sherri Craig is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of English at Virginia Tech where researches how universities and workplaces implement diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives, particularly for the recruitment and retention of Black women faculty and graduate students. She also considers the ways in which diversity initiatives can be located in writing across the curriculum programming. Currently positioned as the coordinator for Business Writing, she regularly offers courses and workshops about antiracism and on navigating diversity and inclusion practices in the workplace and across the curriculum. 

Dr. Craig's current research is for a monograph on higher education institutions’ language of commitment since the 2020 murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Her published work can be found at spark activism [dot] com, and located in Technical Communication, Prompt, the Journal of Multimodal Rhetorics, and the WAC Journal and the WPA: Writing Program Administration journal.

Dr. Sarah Snyder is a NTT Professor of English and the Writing Program Administrator and WAC/WID Coordinator at Arizona Western College in Yuma, Arizona.

Her teaching and research revolve around sociolinguistic realities of teaching multilingual students who are studying and writing in English at open access institutions. You can find her most recent publications in Radical Teacher, Kairos, TETYC, WPA: Writing Program Administration, and the TYCA White Papers as well as in multiple edited collections.

Dr. Iris D. Ruiz is a Continuing Lecturer for the UC Merced Merritt Writing Program and a Lecturer with the Sonoma State University Chicano/Latino Studies Program. Her most current work centers upon decolonizing curricula, academic space, public space, and disciplinarity. Her current publications are her monograph, Reclaiming Composition for Chicano/as and other Ethnic Minorities: A Critical History and Pedagogy, and a co-edited collection, Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies: New Latinx Keywords for Theory and Pedagogy. Her 2017 co-authored article, “Race, Silence, and Writing Program Administration,” published in CWPA, deals with race and WPA history and received the 2019 Kenneth Bruffee Award. 

Lastly, she’s written for the Journal of Pan African Studies about her journey toward a decolonial identity titled, “La Indigena.” Lastly, she has recently launched a podcast, which is a collaboration between Spark Writing and Working for Change Series and scholars in Rhetoric and Writing in an effort to create resilient strategies.

Kristi Murray Costello, Ph.D. is the Associate Chair of Writing Studies and an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Old Dominon University. Her areas of research and expertise include composition pedagogy and counterhistories, feminist writing program, writing center, and WAC/WID administration, and affect theory. She is a co-editor of The Things We Carry: Strategies for Recognizing and Negotiating Emotional Labor in Writing Program Administration and the Fall 2023 WPA Journal article “The Quiet Revolution: How New WPAs Are Shifting the Profession."

Kristi adopts disabled senior dogs, enjoys playing tennis and hiking with her partner, and is learning to play the drums.

Dr. Ashley M. Beardsley is an Assistant Professor of English and director of the University Writing Center at Western Illinois University. She holds an MFA in Writing and Poetics with a concentration in Poetry from Naropa University and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Writing Studies from the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests include food rhetorics, media studies, and feminism. You can find her work in the Popular Culture Studies Journal, Writing Spaces, and Peitho.

She uses baking as her creative outlet and research and enjoys working at her kitchen desk so she can bake sourdough bread while writing.

Ethan Voss recently earned his master’s degree in Rhetoric and Writing at Michigan State University, and he will pursue a PhD in English and Education next academic year at the University of Michigan. Throughout his career, Ethan has co-directed the University of Minnesota’s First-Year Experience Program, taught first-year writing, and served as the Graduate Assistant of Michigan State’s First-Year Writing Program. His research interests include writing-program administration, leadership theory, higher-education administration and policy, first-year composition, assessment, teacher education, and critical pedagogies.

In his spare time, he enjoys reading, traveling, playing volleyball, watching sitcoms, and going out with friends.

Brienna Fleming is the former Assistant Director of Composition at Ohio University's Department of English and has now stepped into the role, Director of Guest Services and Events at an Athens nonprofit, the Dairy Barn. Her dissertation is about food texts in FYC, and her research interests are in food and feminist rhetorics, popular culture,  freshman composition, Writing Program Administrative labor, American literature and the cowboy. This spring, Brienna was nominated for the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools Excellence in Teaching Award and also earned Ohio University's College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding TA Award.