Kristin Gecan (she/her/hers) is focused on the intersection of rhetoric and design, specifically, how humans can co-write ekphrases in the 21st century to perpetuate critical thinking skills and build (life)world(s) and future(s) that allow us all to flourish in the eras to come. She is a PhD researcher, writing instructor, and Assistant Dean and Senior Director of Content at the Institute of Design at Illinois Tech in Chicago, Illinois. She thinks her three young boys should live in a tomorrow informed by feminist utopianism and literary imagination.

Dr. Amy Gerald is an Assistant Professor of English and earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a specialty in Rhetoric and Composition. She also has a graduate certificate in Women's Studies, an MA in English from Appalachian State University and a BA in English from Wake Forest University. Dr. Gerald's scholarship lies in the intersection of feminism, rhetoric, and writing, with work appearing in journals such as Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, Composition Studies, the Journal of Advanced Composition, Feminist Teacher, the Writing Lab Newsletter and the collection The Teacher's Body: Embodiment, Authority, and Identity in the Academy.

I’m Treasurer of the Coalition and a Professor of English, Education, and Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. My scholarly interests include the feminist rhetorics, writing pedagogy, and digital rhetorics, and I am particularly interested in the experiences of non-elite populations of students, the voices of marginalized rhetors, and the means by which ordinary citizens use language to effect change. My book projects include Rhetoric at the Margins: Revising the History of Writing Instruction in American Colleges; the collection Rhetoric, History, and Women’s Oratorical Education: American Women Learn to Speak, coedited with Catherine Hobbs; Educating the New Southern Woman: Speech, Writing, and Race at the Public Women’s Colleges, with Catherine Hobbs; and the collection Women at Work: Rhetorics of Gender and Labor, coedited with Jessica Enoch. I am currently studying Black women’s rhetorical activism in the age of Jim Crow.

Race and Representation in Popular Culture; Black Feminist Theory; Womanism; Embodied Social Justice; Contemplative Pedagogy

Danielle Griffin is an Assistant Professor English at Oxford College of Emory University. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Maryland and then worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Teaching of Writing at the University of Delaware. Her research interests are focused on histories of rhetorical theory and literacy in the early modern period, feminist rhetoric, and labor/working-class studies. She has published in Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric and Technical Communication Quarterly, and she co-edited the collection Feminist Circulations: Rhetorical Explorations Across Space and Time. She teaches a variety of courses related to writing and rhetoric, including courses in the history of rhetorical theory, professional writing, feminist theory, and archival research for undergraduate students.

Dr. Lisa Gring-Pemble, an associate professor at George Mason University, is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of St. Olaf College. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Communication (Rhetoric) from the University of Maryland.. She is the author of Grim Fairy Tales: The Rhetorical Construction of American Welfare Policy, co-author of Your Daughters Will Prophesy: Religion and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century Woman's Movement, and co-editor of Readings on Political Communication. Her work has appeared in The Quarterly Journal of Speech, Political Communication, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Women and Language, and Communication Quarterly, among others. Gring-Pemble is passionate about teaching and is the recipient of the 2005 George Mason University Teaching Excellence Award, 2017 OSCAR Mentoring Excellence Award, 2019 George Mason University Alumni Association Faculty of the Year Award, and 2024 John Toups Presidential Medal for Faculty Excellence in Teaching. Gring-Pemble regularly collaborates with faculty and staff at the College of Public Health in a variety of ways, including serving as a lead academic mentor for the Learning Laboratory for Population and Social Health, and serving as a co-principal investigator on several grants focused on community-driven development and public health.

Letizia Guglielmo is Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University (KSU), where she teaches courses in writing and rhetoric and gender and women’s studies in a variety of course modalities, including online asynchronous environments. Her writing and research explore feminist rhetoric and pedagogy, gender and pop culture, and student and faculty professional development, and her work has appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed journals and edited collections. She is author and co-editor of Immigrant Scholars in Rhetoric, Composition, and Communication: Memoirs of a First Generation, author and editor of Misogyny in American Culture: Causes, Trends, Solutions, co-author of Scholarly Publication in a Changing Academic Landscape, author and editor of Contingent Faculty Publishing in Community: Case Studies for Successful Collaborations, and author and editor of MTV and Teen Pregnancy: Critical Essays on 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom. As a certified professional coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF) she also has served as a Faculty Success Fellow and Coach with the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at KSU, where she facilitated faculty development workshops and offered one-to-one coaching for faculty on a variety of topics connected to faculty writing and publishing and career progression.

Maggie Hart is a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma. Her main research interests include rhetorics of health and medicine, narrative methodologies, embodied knowledge, and disability studies. 

Amanda Hayes is an associate professor of English at Kent State Tuscarawas. She has written two books, The Politics of Appalachian Rhetoric and The Madison Women: Gender, Higher Education, and Literacy in Nineteenth Century Appalachia.