In doing so, my leadership commits to bending institutional culture towards justice by:

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• Building sustainable infrastructures of onboarding and mentoring. Writing centers require an intentional culture of onboarding into local routines, values, and practices. This includes spaces of community building, problem-solving, and calibration to strategic unit goals. As Assistant Director of our writing center, I worked to develop onboarding and continual support for our graduate assistants that specifically enabled them to develop their pedagogical and administrative skillsets while setting goals for their personal and professional development. Simultaneously, they were mentored into the concrete practices and values to effectively carry out their jobs while also developing competitive portfolios for their future contexts, including conducting research, leading committees, revising policies, executing social media strategy, and serving as unit leaders. 

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• Enacting anti-racist feminist feedback practice in assessment and unit planning. I value multiple data perspectives in making informed, shared decisions about program goals, policies, and operations. I bring criticality to balance quantitative reporting with qualitative approaches to illustrate a full-bodied picture of experiences and outcomes in a unit. Through an antiracist and feminist listening practice, I work to understand the effects of policies and pedagogies on most impacted students, staff, and faculty members. In leading our assessment committee, for instance, I developed priorities including surveys, focus groups, and stakeholder analysis in order to develop strategic goals and shifts in unit culture, operations, and policy, including developing graduate student support groups and realigning  the intake process. 

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• Cultivating collaborations across campus and community. Writing centers must not only support student and staff experiences but must enact alignments with various stakeholders through local and campus communities. I seek out partnerships to develop responsive support structures for specific populations. As the Community Writing Coordinator, I built relationships with the local library and designed community-literacy-based programming and tutoring. Additionally, our center supported research faculty writing goals and campus affinity groups through responsive, outcomes-based programming. In doing so, such collaborations help visibilize the importance and impact of our programs while responding directly to institutional and community needs. 

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• Developing responsive staff and faculty development programs on equitable writing pedagogy. I mentor teachers across campus into equitable teaching and assessment practice. In particular, I have developed an ongoing staff development curriculum on issues of language justice for writing center tutors to develop concrete practices to engage multiple languages in their pedagogy in addition to antiracist pedagogy programs across the disciplines. By being a leader in faculty development around writing, we model equitable pedagogy and support other units to support campus-wide initiatives around retention and persistence. 

 

My administration ultimately seeks to build inclusive and responsive cultures of teaching and learning to impact broad equity-based change.  I hope my leadership practices can labor toward not only championing students’ diverse literacies, languages, experiences, and identities in our unit but also serving as a resource and model for others, across campus, to do the same.