Praxis: A Writing Center Journal • Vol. 22, No. 3 (2025)

About the Authors

Iwona Ionescu earned an MA degree in English Philology from Warsaw University, Poland, and an MEd from the University of New Orleans. She is currently a PhD candidate in Composition and Applied Linguistics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Iwona works at Rider University where she teaches first year-composition (FYC) and has coordinated composition tutoring. She has also worked as an English as a Second Language (ESL) instructor, a professional writing tutor, and a high school English teacher. Iwona’s academic interests include writing centers, FYC pedagogies, L2 writers, and students’ development of their writing voices in the era of AI.

Vicki R. Kennell, PhD, is an associate director for graduate and multilingual education at the Purdue OWL. She has mentored graduate writers and graduate consultants for over a decade. Her research focuses primarily on graduate writing and the administration of programs to support it.

Ashley Garla holds an MS in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and is an SLP clinical fellow. During graduate school, she worked as a generalist writing consultant at the Purdue OWL.

Genvieve Gray holds an MS in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and is an SLP clinical fellow. During graduate school, she worked as a generalist writing consultant at the Purdue OWL.

Chloe Ray is the Assistant Director of the Center for Writing and Public Discourse at Claremont McKenna College. Her research interests include the development and practical implementation of anti-racist and justice-informed pedagogy, writing center administration and tutor training, Mixed-Critical Race Theory, and environmental rhetoric.

Erin Goldin is Director of the University Writing Center at University of California, Merced. She is a board member of the Northern California Writing Centers Association. Her scholarly activity is centered on examining the complex, multi-faceted nature of academic literacy development and work that contributes to effective, inclusive practices that meet the needs of diverse student populations.

Chris Borntrager is the Writing Studio Coordinator at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Oriented around questions posed from within discourse studies, his research agenda focuses on the teaching of writing and its role in social life, focusing on literacy studies, media ideologies, critical discourse analysis, and critical analyses of educational practices.

Taylor Weeks is an instructor at the University of Arkansas, emphasis in Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy. His research interests include writing center pedagogy, military student veteran services/support, first-year writing, labeling theory, technical communication and professional writing, and curriculum design, program administration, and digital content creation.

Abraham Romney is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at Idaho State University. He studies the history of rhetoric in Latin America and contemporary approaches to rhetoric and the teaching and administration of writing. Before coming to Idaho State University, where he has served as Interim Director of Composition, he worked at Michigan Technological University as the Director of their Composition Program and as director of the Michigan Tech Multiliteracies Center. 

Nathan Lindberg is a Senior Lecturer for the English Language Support Office (ELSO) at Cornell University and Director of ELSO’s Writing & Presenting Tutoring Service. This spring, he’s teaching a new class called Strategies for Writing with AI and writing a blog about it—the URL is in his article’s Works Cited.

Jonathan Faerber has worked as a writing tutor and instructor at five institutions over the past decade and is currently an Academic Writing Specialist at Royal Roads University, located on the traditional lands of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples in present day Victoria, British Columbia.

Alex (Oleksiy) Ostaltev is a PhD Candidate at University of Texas at Austin (Comparative Literature). He is currently working on his dissertation dedicated to the problem of representation of a person in literary texts of Classical, Medieval and Modern periods. In 2020 he received an M.A. in British and American Literature. His primary sphere of interest is classical texts of national European traditions (Russian, British, French, German). Alex is the author of two books of short stories.