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"Being a part of WPA-GOs mentoring committee has offered me the opportunity to actually start enacting some of what I espouse; such a big part of mentoring for me is to practice what we preach, and for me that's facilitating better relationships between graduate students interested in writing program administration."
Cody Bursch
Past Mentoring Committee Chair (2023-2025)
Goals & Values
Goals & Values
Our committee values building equitable relationships that honor each of our individual and coalitional capacities for emergence and growth.
Our committee believes that administration and teaching demands folks who identify as lifelong learners who can “look at something so broken and see the possibility and wholeness in it” (adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy, 2017, pg. 20).
As a mentoring committee, we are not only interested in facilitating mentoring relationships; we also value the practice of mentoring as part of our duties.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
Design, manage, monitor, and distribute the mentor-matching form throughout the year to help support graduate and faculty relationships from institutions across the country.
Plan and facilitate the Summer Mentoring Workshop Series as a space to support current and prospective WPAs to sit in communion with one another, to practice problem solving, and to navigate complexity.
Practice and promote antiracist behavior and compassionate dispositions that work to better our relationships and help in the formation of action coalitions.
Current Leadership
Rofiat Bello is a PhD candidate in the Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and Cultures at Michigan State University. Her research interests include Medical/Health Rhetorics, Writing Program Administration, Prison Writing, Digital/Multimodal Media, Community Engagement, and Trauma-Informed Pedagogies.
In her spare time, she likes being with her family, watching movies and gardening.
Past Leadership
Cody Bursch has just received their doctorate in Rhetoric and Scientific & Technical Communication from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. They will be joining the faculty at Arizona Western College in Fall 2025. Their research interests include rhetorical listening and critical self-reflection, trauma-informed teaching and learning, and critical epistemologies.
In their spare time, they like hiking in the desert, planning road trips to the desert, and playing video games ... that sometimes also involve the desert.
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