Lisa Ede, Oregon State University

Lisa Ede has directed the Center for Writing and Learning (CWL) at Oregon State University since 1980.  She has presented at both regional writing center conferences and the IWCA conference.  OSU's CWL is hosting the 2006 Pacific Northwest Writing Centers Association Conference on April 29th of this year.  Ede's article "Writing as a Social Process:  A Theoretical Foundation for Writing Centers" was awarded the 1990 National Writing Center Association Award for outstanding scholarship on writing centers. Ede is the author, coauthor, editor, or coeditor of six books.  Her most recent publication is Situating Composition:  Composition Studies and the Politics of Location. 

Michele Eodice, University of Oklahoma

Michele Eodice is the Director of the Writing Center at the University of Oklahoma.  She is the associate editor of development for the Writing Center Journal and co-author of (First Person 2): A study of Co-authoring in the Academy .  In addition, Michele has published work in the areas of plagiarism, writing center administration, and writing groups.  She has twice won the "closest to the pin" contest at her weekly golf league outing.  Michele is an active board member with the International Writing Centers Association, the Midwest Writing Centers Association and the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing.

Jenny Jordan, Glenbrook North High School

Jeanette (Jenny) Jordan has been an English teacher and writing center director at Glenbrook North High School since 1990. During that time she has worked with her colleagues to create a strong WAC-based writing center staffed by student tutors and teachers from throughout the school. She also has co-authored several articles about the value of K-12 writing centers and has presented at professional conferences of the International Writing Centers Association, National Council of Teachers of English, and College Composition and Communication. Active on the IWCA Board as the secondary representative, Jenny continues to promote the importance of writing centers in K-12 settings and is excited to collaborate with her colleagues during the upcoming summer institute.

Lisa Lebduska, Wheaton College

As the Director of College Writing at Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, Lisa Lebduska has taught and coordinated First-Year Writing and Professional/Technical Writing for the last four years. Through the Kollett [Learning] Center, she also provides workshops for peer writing tutors and collaborates with professional tutors on writing-across-the-curriculum initiatives. Prior to her life at Wheaton, Lisa directed what was originally Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Writing Center, evolving it into the Center for Communication across the Curriculum. Lisa has served on the Northeast Writing Centers Association Steering Committee and is currently a reviewer for the Writing Center Journal. Her most recent essays include “Imperative Vigilance,” which appeared in the December 2005 Writing on the Edge and “Classical Rhetoric and the Professional Peer Tutor,” which will be published in the April 2006 issue of the Writing Lab Newsletter.  For Lisa, “writing centering” means unifying practice, theory and marrow.

Scott Miller, Humboldt State University

Scott Miller's professional career has been defined by writing center work, since the day, in 1985, he first walked into the Humboldt State University Writing Center for his first stint as a tutor.  Since then, he has worked in writing centers in a community college, a major research university, and, since 1997, another regional state university, this time Sonoma State University in Northern California.  There, he is Director of the SSU Writing Center and associate professor of English (rhetoric).  He has made many presentations on various writing-center-related topics (tutor training, cross-disciplinary relations, the uses of play) at forums like the annual 4Cs pre-conference workshop and the 4Cs regular program, and he hosted the 2000 Northern California Writing Centers Association (NCWCA) Annual Meeting at Sonoma State.  He is past president of the NCWCA and a continuing officer in that organization.  His published work encompasses writing center scholarship, business communication, and the challenges of preparing graduate students for the profession.  His most recent work includes an essay (forthcoming) entitled "Play in the Writing Center"; and presently he is hard at work on a book entitled The Liberal Arts Writing Center.

Clyde Moneyhun, Stanford University

Clyde Moneyhun has taught writing for nearly 30 years. He has directed three writing programs and four writing centers and is currently Associate Director of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric and Director of the Writing Center at Stanford University. He has published essays and reviews in CCC, JAC, Rhetoric Review, and WPA; his most recent essay, “Literary Texts as Primers in Meaning-Making,” will appear in Integrating Literature and Writing Instruction in First-Year English (edited by Judith Anderson and Christine Farris, forthcoming in 2006 from MLA Press). He is the author of Living Languages (with Nancy Buffington and Marvin Diogenes, Prentice Hall, 1996), Crafting Fiction (with Marvin Diogenes, McGraw-Hill, 2001), and Arguing With Power (McGraw-Hill, forthcoming in 2007). He has served as an executive committee member of WPA (2000-04) and CCCC (2006-2009) and was local chair of the annual WPA conference in 2004. He tutors, joyfully, every week.

Janet Swenson, Michigan State University

Janet Swenson directs the Writing Center at Michigan State University where she is an associate professor in the department of Writing, Rhetoric and American Culture and teaches graduate courses in the Critical Studies in Literacy Pedagogy program.  Janet's research has focused on the initial and on-going preparation of writing teachers, in public school and university settings.  She has served as a member of the NCTE Executive Committee and continues to serve on the National Writing Project (NWP) Task Force (an internal advisory committee).  She has also chaired the Conference on English Education (CEE).  Janet's monograph, Critical Responses to Teaching Demonstrations will be published by the NWP in fall 2006.  Most recently Janet's work has focused on the influence of newer technologies on teaching and writing, and she serves as the NCTE/CEE representative to the National Technology Leadership Coalition.  She has worked with colleagues to develop a massively multi-player on-line game, Ink, that will be alpha and beta tested this spring and will launch nationally in the fall 2006.

Sherri Winans, Whatcom Community College

Sherri Winans has been teaching English at Whatcom Community College in Bellingham, Washington, since 1989.  In 1999, she created the school's first online writing center and has been directing the on-campus center since 2001.  Her article "What Do We Believe Now? Constructing a Community College OWL" appeared in Clint Gardner and James Inman's OWL Construction and Maintenance Guide (2002).   She serves on the boards for the International Writing Centers Association, as community college representative, and the Pacific Northwest Writing Centers Association, as Vice President.  She is part of a Seattle-area group of directors that meets quarterly to exchange ideas and visit college and university centers.  In the fall of 2005, Sherri received TYCA-Pacific Northwest's Lisa Ede Outstanding Faculty Award.  Currently, Sherri and her co-workers are exploring the ways in which improvisational theory can be applied to their work in the center.