Karen Rosenberg, PhD
Director
"I am passionate about writing, writing pedagogy, and capable and
creative program administration. As the Director of the Writing Center I have the great privilege of supporting students and faculty in creating productive spaces to explore, revise, and re-imagine their writing...."
Kim Sharp, MFA
Assistant Director
"The rambling process that brought me to the position of Writing
Center Manager is similar to my writing process. I started out as a
UW Bothell (IAS) student and eventually started working as a
consultant in the Writing Center; I left to pursue my MFA...."
Lead Writing Consultants
Erik Echols
Lead Writing Consultant
BA Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences: Society, Ethics and Human Behavior, 2006
"My strengths as a consultant include thesis focus, writing structure, close reading and literature reviews. I offer my patience, and organizational skills, as well as years of experience .."
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Kat Seidemann
Majors: Media & Communications
IAS: Society, Ethics and Human Behavior
"Writing allows me to express myself in creative and effective ways..."
Writing Consultants
Elizabeth Babadzhanova
IAS: Media and Communication Studies
"Remember in Disney’s The Jungle Book when Kaa (the snake) tried to hypnotize Mowgli with its eyes? I remember going through a similar feeling..."
Sean Blackbourn
Major: Computing and Software Systems
"Getting started on writing has always been the hardest part for me. My own nature as a perfectionist would work against me and I would struggle with writing that first sentence."
Gwyn Boyer
IAS Community Psychology Major
I enjoy writing reflective essays and short stories.
"I feel that the writing process can be similar to how I learned cursive writing."
Justine Bronfinn
Major: Culture, Literature, and the Arts Emphasis on reflective essays, creative writing, poetry.
"More potent than any block, it's this fear that freezes my fingers still. How do I shake off the paralysis that
keeps the words..."
Linda Dodge
BA in Psychology, UW Seattle
My favorite type of writing is personal experience/short article/personal essay.
"My passion is writing something that reaches out and connects with others, even those you may not know, and touches or moves them in some way."
Ani Dorsett
Major: Interdisiplinary Arts and Sciences: Media and Communication Studies Minor: Human Rights with a focus on Business
"Every writing assignment is like a puzzle. Creating the complete puzzle is just the art of being able to put the right pieces together, and being able to discern whether a..."
Ryan Druckman
Major: Computer Systems & Software
"I find coding to be a bittersweet battle between me and the console. In my head I have a perfect vision of the execution... What does this have to do with writing?"
Katie Grainger
Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Major
BA, English (emphasis emphasis in Latin American &
Caribbean Studies), Wofford College
"I’ve learned (rather stubbornly) that writing is a process, and that there are no perfect writers or papers..."
Jasleena Grewal
Environmental Studies Major
"I never judge a book by its cover. Instead, I take the sniffing route."
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Shana Hirsch
Master of Arts in Cultural Studies Major
"I used to be anxious and confused when confronted with an assignment, but I learned how to work through the writing process, and to see it in a new light."
Kim Jones
Major: Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Emphasis in Culture, Literature and the Arts
"The most difficult aspect of writing is myself, the writer. I love to punish myself and make small writing tasks as difficult as possible..."
Kalpita Joshi
Major: Interdisciplinary Studies
Emphasis: Global Studies
"I remember picking up the first Harry Potter book..."
Katie Knutson
Major: BA Business
"I didn’t come into college thinking that I was a fabulous writer..."
Heather Miles
Major: Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Emphasis: Community Psychology
"I always have something to say..."
Sofia Piel
B.A. in English Literature from University of New Hampshire
"On the first day of my African American Lit class at the University of New Hampshire..."
Cora Thomas
Major: Master of Arts in Cultural Studies, IAS
Emphasis: Higher Education Reform. Writing.
"My pen is my paintbrush..."