Keynote


NCPTW is thrilled to be able to share with attendees a panel of speakers who personify our theme, “Building Bridges and Breaking Clichés.”

Dr. Dana Lynn Driscoll is a Professor of English and the Director of the Jones White Writing Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the United States.  She has offered numerous keynotes, consultations and workshops on writing centers and supporting advanced writers globally. She has also published over 40 articles on learning theory, writing development, writing centers, and writing expertise and with Sherry Wynn Perdue, won IWCA’s Article of the Year award in 2012.  In the Jones White Writing Center, she has developed innovative strategies for STEM writers, business and technical communicators, multilingual writers, and dissertation writing support.  She teaches writing for publication, research methods, and writing center administration in the Doctoral Program in Composition and Applied Linguistics at IUP.  She recently served as a co-editor of the open-source textbook series Writing Spaces (reaching millions of students each year) and, while finishing her Ph.D. at Purdue, also ran the world-famous Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL), one of the largest and oldest writing-related websites in the world.

Stacey Hahn is an English teacher at Amsterdam High School in New York and the current president of the Secondary School Writing Centers Association. Her passion for writing centers and peer tutoring began as an undergraduate consultant at the Central Michigan University Writing Center. After teaching high school English for five years, she became a full-time writing center director in Oregon while completing her M.Ed. from Regis University with a focus on secondary writing centers. Stacey then taught at Meridian High School in Idaho and opened a writing center there before moving to New York. She coedited Advocating, Building, and Collaborating: A Resource Toolkit to Sustain Secondary School Writing Centers and The Toolkit: Writing Center Resources for Middle and High Schools.

Lee Ann Glowzenski is a Lead Tutor at the educational technology company Paper, where she specializes in onboarding, tutor education, and K-12 writing and instructional support. Lee Ann earned her Ph.D. in English from Duquesne University in 2014, and she has served as an editor of WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship since 2011. When not reading about writing or writing about reading, Lee Ann spends her time in endless pursuit of grant funding for the150-year-old church she is restoring, located in the wilds of Northwestern Pennsylvania.

Sean Serenyi is fifteen years old and will be in tenth grade at Peters Township High School near Pittsburgh. He has always enjoyed writing, but became interested in peer tutoring when he was in eighth grade and joined the Writing Lab at his middle school. Since then, he has loved helping his fellow students and presented at SSWCA 2023 in Washington, DC on push-in tutoring at the middle level. Beyond that, he enjoys all subjects in school, with his favorites being French and Literature. Outside of school, he is an athlete on the cross country, basketball, and track and field teams. He also participates in the Interact Club at his school, a group that does community service work, as well as the youth group at his church.

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Duquesne University McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts

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