Building Culturally Sustaining Practices: WAC at Hispanic-Serving Institutions
Plenary Presentation by Lizbett Tinoco
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Lizbett Tinoco is an Associate Professor of English and Director of Writing Across the Curriculum at Texas A&M University - San Antonio. Her areas of research include writing program administration, two-year college writing studies, and antiracist writing assessment. She currently serves as an assistant editor for the Journal of Writing Assessment. Her work has been published in Community College Journal of Research and Practice, Journal of Writing Assessment, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Composition Forum, and various edited collections.
Reading, Writing, and Wondering: Meaning making in biology
Plenary Presentation by Meena Balgopal
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Meena Balgopal has always explored how to integrate biology, rhetoric, and helping people learn. She earned a BS in Animal Sciences (focusing on international development) from the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign and an MS in Entomology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She served as an entomology extension agent in California, helping walnut and almond growers decrease pesticide use. She was a secondary science teacher in Arizona and North Dakota. She received her PhD in Zoology/Science Education at North Dakota State University. She moved to Colorado State University in 2008 and now studies science pedagogy, science communication, and meaning making in the department of biology. She became a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar in 2022. All throughout her moves, she has been able to add to her birding life list.
Insights from WAC Programs Around the Globe: Issues and Energies in Changing Times
Plenary Presentation by Laurie A. Britt-Smith, College of the Holy Cross; Cris Elder, University of New Mexico; Crystal N. Fodrey, University of Louisville; Kristi Girdharry, Babson College; Swan Kim, CUNY Brooklyn; Justin K. Rademaekers, West Chester University; and Paula Rosinski, Elon University
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Laurie A. Britt-Smith is the Director of the Center for Writing (WAC work plus Writing Center) at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and served as treasurer for AWAC for six years. She continues her WAC work and is also interested in rhetorics of social justice.
Cris Elder is Associate Professor in rhetoric and writing at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She completed her term as the chair of AWAC in June 2025.
Crystal N. Fodrey is Associate Professor of English (NTT) at the University of Louisville. Her empirical research explores writing activity across disciplines and contexts, with a focus on the teaching of writing and administering of writing programs. She is excited to serve the WAC community this year as Chair of the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum.
Kristi Girdharry Associate Teaching Professor of English and Director of the writing center at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she teaches courses on research, writing, social media, and artificial intelligence. You can find her most recent scholarship in Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, Double Helix: A Journal of Critical Thinking and Writing, and College Composition and Communication.
Swan Kim Professor of English and Director of Composition at Brooklyn College. Her research and teaching interests include first-year writing, writing across the curriculum, multilingual writing pedagogy, and writing program administration.
Justin K. Rademaekers Professor of English Rhetoric at West Chester University of Pennsylvania where he directs the English M.A. degree and Writing Across the Curriculum Program. He is a founding member of AWAC and has served on the AWAC Executive Committee since the organization’s inception, completing his term as Outgoing Chair in June 2025. His scholarship focuses on university writing curricula informed by the rhetoric of science, interdisciplinary collaboration, and discourse theory.
Paula Rosinski is Professor of Professional Writing & Rhetoric and Director of Writing Across the University in the Center for Writing Excellence at Elon University. where she co-coordinates the Disciplinary Writing Consultants program, co-chairs her institution’s AI Task Force, and previously led her institution’s Quality Enhancement Plan on Writing Excellence. She serves on the Association of AWAC Executive Committee (previously as member-at-large and currently as treasurer).