Community Writing Center Advisory Committees

• Community Advisory Committee

• Academic Advisory Committee

Community Advisory Committee

Shauna Bona is a founder and copresident of McKinnon-Mulherin, Inc., a company that provides writing and editing expertise to corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies. Although most of her time is spent working directly with clients (i.e., sales), she is also in charge of training the McKinnon-Mulherin team. When she isn't working, she focuses her time on her teen-age daughter Sophie and on volunteer work for the Girl Scouts and the Salt Lake City Rotary Club.

Louis Borgenicht is a pediatrician and writer.  He is an Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and has taught courses in Literature and Medicine for the Division of Continuing Education at the University of Utah. His articles have appeared in Catalyst, Utah Holiday, City Weekly and the Salt Lake Tribune as well as professional medical journals. He is an inveterate writer of letters to the editor and is currently working on a book that will include a section of his unpublished political diatribes.

Stephen Goldsmith is Curator of The Temporary Museum of Permanent Change.

Anne Holman, Manager of King's English Bookshop, has been a reader since she was old enough to hold a book. It never occurred to her that a person could actually have a job where books and people could come together and one could actually earn money doing it. Will wonders never cease?

Donna Land-Maldonado is General Manager and radio host for KRCL.

Gail McCulloch is a playwright, instructor and librarian; she has an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Utah and was a professor of Theatre at Westminster College for nine years.

Dawn Marano is president and senior editor of Dawn Marano & Associates, a literary consulting and developmental editing firm. Previously she served as an editor at the University of Utah Press, where she published many nationally recognized authors of nonfiction. She teaches writing for the University of Utah's Lifelong Learning program and serves as chair of the advisory board for the Writers @ Work annual conference. Marano is a co-author of When We Say We're Home: A Quartet of Place and Memory, a work of literary nonfiction. Her poetry and prose have appeared in several publications and anthologies, and her work has been cited among Notable Essays in The Best American Essays. Her memoir Trusting the Edge won the Utah Arts Council Original Writing Competition for Nonfiction Book in 2005 and the Publication Prize in 2006.

Robin Pratt, originally from California, has a background in psychology and business.  Her articles and essays on topics including parenting, health, music, alumni perspectives, community and women's issues have been published in regional and national magazines, on public radio, and online; her first book was published in 2006. In addition to freelance writing, Robin has worked as a website writer and small nonprofit administrator. She currently lives and writes in Salt Lake City with her husband and their two sons.

Ken Verdoia is the extremely rare journalist who has worked in newspaper, magazine, radio, commercial television and public television on the local, regional and national level, Ken presently provides overall direction of program production for KUED-TV in Salt Lake City. He also serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. Ken is the recipient of seventeen Emmy Awards and has been twice honored for producing the best television news documentary in America. He is a fellow of the American Political Science Association, a Lifetime Achievement honoree from the National Academy of Television Arts and Science, and author and media consultant to Fortune 500, federal government and professional sports (NBA, MLB, NFL) clients.

Academic Advisory Committee

Our Academic Advisory Committee is comprised of educators from local higher education institutions and K-12 schools/districts who advise the CWC on innovative pedagogical approaches,  facilitate opportunities for research and scholarship and explore avenues for student involvement in and through the CWC.

Clint Gardner (Chair) is the Coordinator of the Salt Lake Community College (SLCC) Student Writing Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. He currently serves as Past President of the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA), having completed hist two-year term as President in 2007. His writing center research and development include the work of peer writing consultants (tutors) in a community college writing center and the use of online resources to bring writing center services who cannot attend the Student Writing Center in person. One the most important aspects of his writing center work is to support and offer feedback to the student writers who come to the SLCC Student Writing Center, as well as to the SLCC Students who work as peer writing consultants in the Center. Clint teaches college composition and literature with a particular interest in discourse studies and genre theory. His literary interest include Shakespeare and British Modernists.

Geoffrey Brugger, SLCC School of Arts and Communications

Larry Christensen, SLCC Psychology Department

Ron Christiansen, SLCC English Department

Daniel Emery, University of Utah Writing Program

John Fritz, SLCC Department of History and Anthropology

Dean Huber, SLCC ESL Department

Tom Huckin, University of Utah Writing Program

Jay Jordan, University of Utah Writing Program

Lynn Kilpatrick, SLCC English Department

Chris LeCluyse is an assistant professor of English and writing center director at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. After studying English and vocal performance at Oberlin College, he received his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, where he specialized in the history of the English language and linguistics. In graduate school Chris became involved in writing center administration and later filled interim positions at UT and Southwestern University before coming to Westminster. His research looks at writing center practice through the lenses of ancient rhetoric and medieval literacy. He is also a professional singer of choral and early music, performing with Conspirare (Austin), Magnificat (San Francisco), and a variety of ensembles in Salt Lake.

Maureen Mathison, University of Utah Writing Program

Lois Oestreich, SLCC Pre-Teacher Education

Jennifer Ritter, SLCC English Department

Cheryl Shurtleff, SLCC Skills Center, ESL

Enrique Velasquez, SLCC Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Betsy Ward is the Director of the Thayne Center for Service & Learning, which coordinates civic participation, service-learning, and volunteerism efforts at Salt Lake Community College. Her background is in community outreach, including experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Poland and a VISTA volunteer in rural Washington state. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English and a master’s degree in American Studies from Utah State University.

Sundy Watanabe, University of Utah Writing Center