Professor Emerita, English Department, Sonoma State University. Author of Passionate Commitments: The Lives of Anna Rochester and Grace Hutchins, SUNY Press, 2013, www.passionatecommitments.com. Co-author of Women Making History: The Revolutionary Feminist Postcard Art of Helaine Victoria Press, Lever Press, 2023. Open access: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12737267.

Jen Almjeld is a professor of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication at James Madison University. Her research interests include girlhood, online identity, digital rhetorics, fatness rhetorics and research methods.

Dr. Wendy K. Z. Anderson researches social change rhetorics and digital media as a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her areas of expertise reside conceptually in agency, identity, health advocacy, and equity as she/they fosters space for coalitional anti-racist and LGBTQIA+, feminist, and neurorhetorical scholarship grounded in community praxis.

Dr. Michelle Bachelor Robinson is a distinguished educator, scholar, and community advocate with a profound dedication to the performing arts and community engagement. She currently serves as the Director of the Comprehensive Writing Program and faculty member in the Department of English at Spelman College. Her academic and professional expertise includes community engagement, historiography, rhetoric and literacy, composition pedagogy, and student and program assessment, with a commitment to bridging academia and community.

Will (he/him) is professor of Rhetoric, Writing, and Professional Communication at East Carolina University. In addition to directing the University Writing Program and the Tar River Writing Project, Will teaches courses in writing, research, and pedagogy, as well as LGBTQ and young adult literatures. His essays on digital rhetorics, queer rhetorics, writing assessment, pedagogy, and writing program administration have appeared in several recent books, as well as in College Composition & Communication, College English, and Computers & Composition. He has edited five collections of scholarship, including English Studies Online: Programs, Practices, Possibilities (2021) and Re/Orienting Writing Studies: Queer Methods, Queer Projects (2019). His co-authored monograph Failing Sideways: Queer Possibilities for Writing Assessment (2023) challenges many of our field’s values around writing and assessment in order to ask how we might reimagine our work through a new model: queer validity inquiry. Failing Sideways has been awarded the 2024 CCCC Lavender Rhetorics Award and has received Honorable Mentions for the 2024 CCCC Best Book Award and the 2024 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award.

Leslie Beegle (He/Him) I’m a third year PhD student in the English Department at Northeastern University. I’m interested in critical archival studies, decoloniality, and trans archives.

Sally F. Benson is an independent scholar whose interests include prison education and prison history in New Mexico, historiography, collective memory, and community archives. She teaches at the Penitentiary of New Mexico in Santa Fe.

Distinguished Professor of English Emerita. Retired from Holy Cross in 2019 after 42 years. Publications include: Rhetorics of Fear and Rage: An American Tradition (forthcoming); Nineteenth-Century American Activist Rhetorics, with Zimmerelli, 2021; The Rhetorical Tradition, with Herzberg and Reames, 3rd edition 2020. Honors include: NCTE Outstanding Book Award, 1992; Exemplar Award, CCCC; 2008; Sara Feinberg Prize, Hebrew College, 2013; Fellow, Rhetoric Society of America, 2018.

David Blakesley is Professor of Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design and the Campbell Chair in Technical Communication at Clemson University. He is a Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America. He founded Parlor Press in 2002 and serves as its Publisher and CEO. His most recent books are written with Jimmy Butts (The Sophist's Cookbook), Steve Katz (Elaborate Cosmos), and Cheryl Glenn and Rich Enos (Shaping Rhetorical Studies).

I am an educator and registered nurse exploring the intersection of feminist rhetoric, healthcare education, and simulation. My work aims to is amplify standardized patient educators as stewards of safety and focuses on how language functions within training environments to shape professional norms, collaboration, and experiences of safety in sexual and reproductive healthcare. Through scholarship, I advocate for language awareness as a core component of ethical and inclusive medical and health professions education.

Late-comer to higher ed, Air Force veteran, two-year college advocate.

Charlot is an undergraduate student studying creative writing and peace studies at Chapman University. She has a passion of education and citizenship. In her free time, she conducts research on how to better improve the American education system and education's contribution to national and global citizenship.

Melody Bowdon, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair in the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Central Florida. In the more than 25 years since she joined the UCF English Department as an Assistant Professor, Dr. Bowdon has served in several university leadership roles, including Interim Vice Provost of the Division of Teaching and Learning, Interim Dean of the College of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Vice Provost of Student Learning and Academic Success, Associate Dean of the College of Undergraduate Studies, Executive Director of the Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning, director of SACSCOC decennial reaffirmation of accreditation, and director of various graduate programs. She has served on a wide range of committees, mentored numerous colleagues, and has provided leadership on state and national levels, particularly in the arenas of student civic engagement and faculty professional development. She has published numerous books and articles about innovative pedagogies and institutional leadership. Her most recent interdisciplinary research areas include virtual reality pedagogy in the college classroom and inclusive models for learning space design, while her disciplinary scholarship focuses on professional communication in the government and nonprofit sectors.