Aarti
Peer Mentor

Aarti is a fourth year Psychology major with a Global Health minor. She has experience with coursework in both areas, and in other areas such as chemistry and biology. She's happy to work with any student learning in any field! Aarti loves to work with any stage of the writing process, but especially loves the brain-storming stage and also likes to help with organization. Her biggest goal during any session is helping writers feel more confident and passionate about their writing. Outside of the writing center, Aarti is involved in the Psychology department's honor's program, and does research in a developmental psychology lab. She's also an officer for the Diversity in Psychology club on campus. Aarti's hobbies include blogging, podcasting, photography, traveling and most of all, spending quality time with friends and family.

Languages
English, Marathi

Allison
Undergraduate Tutor

Alli is a second-year student intending to major in Human Centered Design and Engineering. Although she is happy to work on anything from creative writing to research papers, she especially loves working with writers on personal statements. She has participated in research in the Informatics and HCDE departments, and would be happy to share more of her experience if anyone is interested. During her spare time, she likes playing the piano, singing with friends, or eating ice cream while watching a good movie late at night.

Languages
English, Japanese

Amanda
Research Librarian & Tutor

Amanda is the Teaching & Learning Program Librarian and the Geography Librarian. She chairs the UW Libraries Teaching & Learning Group and coordinates the Odegaard Undergraduate Library education program and loves working with instructors to teach research skills and resources to students. Holding one-on-one research and writing consultations with students is her favorite part of being a librarian. Amanda graduated with a B.A. from Lewis and Clark College, which included a year-long study abroad program in France, and has her Masters in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington. In her free time, she enjoys reading, listening to music, camping and spending time with her husband, son, family and friends.

Amy
Undergraduate Tutor

Amy is a first year student majoring in Biochemistry. Her favorite genre of writing is research, and she has a lot of experience in citing MLA and APA papers. Although Amy's favorite genre of writing is research, Amy has worked with many different types of writing, from short stories to personal statements and literature reviews. She loves working with writers to develop their thesis and refine their papers. In her free time, Amy enjoys cooking, baking, watching K-dramas, and finding new coffee shops and restaurants.

Languages
English, Vietnamese

Anne
Research Librarian

Anne is the Anthropology and Archaeology Librarian for the UW Libraries. She reads a lot of graphic novels and comics, which explains why she has so many geeky posters in her office. See Anne's libguide profile below:

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Annie
Undergraduate Tutor

Annie is a sophomore intended to major in Business Marketing. She is most comfortable in academic research writing and literary analysis, but she would love to work with any type of writing. She's excited to work with writers at any stage of writing. In her free time, she will try to cook some of her favorite dishes, watching TV shows and hanging out with her friends.

Languages
English, Vietnamese, Cantonese, Mandarin

Areej
Graduate Tutor

Areej is a fiction writer in her final year in the Creative Writing MFA program. She enjoys working with writers at any stage of the writing process, but is most excited about helping with brainstorming and outlining for analytical essays, and with personal statements. She loves writing centers and was a peer tutor at Rutgers University where she double-majored in English and Biology before graduating with an MA in Literature. She is passionate about languages and is keen to serve as English Language Support. Areej is currently working on a novel and novella, the latter of which she hopes to wrap up soon (fingers crossed). In her spare time, she loves cooking, graphic design, singing, gaming, drawing, watching anime and going to the gym.

Languages
English, Urdu, French

Caitlin B.
Graduate Tutor

Caitlin is a graduate student in the School of Music pursuing her doctorate in clarinet. Originally from northern Virginia, she worked as a peer tutor as an undergraduate at Shenandoah University and is excited to join the writing center community at UW. Caitlin especially enjoys working with writers in the brainstorming and revising stages, and has experience writing personal statements and academic papers for a variety of arts-related projects. When she isn't in a practice room or in rehearsal, you might find her walking in the woods, listening to podcasts, or power napping.

Languages
English

Carter
Graduate Tutor

Carter is a second-year graduate student at the Evans School pursuing a Master's in Public Administration. Born and raised in Seattle, he earned his B.A. in Political Science from Stanford before returning to the rainy Northwest for grad school. His undergraduate and graduate coursework has focused primarily on public policy, psychology, and personal statements, but he loves to branch out into new topics during tutoring sessions, from lab reports to english portfolios and everything in between. He is known for his high-energy approach to brainstorming and argument development, but he's comfortable in every stage of the writing process. In his free time, he loves to run, play music, and go to the Moth's local storytelling nights.

Languages
English

Deborah
Research Librarian & Tutor

Deborah is a reference and instruction librarian at Odegaard. Her background includes a MM in Musicology (aka the study of the history and literature of music) and a MS in Information Science along with 25 years as a music information specialist and educator. She is an armchair philosopher who has been described by peers to have the ability to "find the weak link in any argument". She believes that life is a path of ongoing inquiry and learning and that writing is an important communication skill which can help us understand each other and ourselves. Her own research, teaching, and writings are in the areas of information literacy, adult education, musician wellness, and human potentials. Her interest in tutoring is to help you find your own voice to express your understanding and growth in your learning process. Deborah's true loves are singing, composing, cooking vegan delights, playing tai chi in nature, and hanging out with canine friends. See more about Deborah's research and writing below.

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Elaine
Graduate Tutor

Elaine is a second year graduate student pursuing her PhD in Bioengineering. She earned her BS in Bioengineering from the University of California San Diego in 2017. Her past writing has included assignments from the social sciences, humanities, sciences, and professional writing. She particularly enjoys working with writers who are brainstorming or outlining. When she’s not in lab or at the OWRC, she’s most likely asleep or cooking up a new experiment at home.

Languages
English, Mandarin

Emily H.
Undergraduate Tutor

Emily is a senior majoring in English Language and Literature. Because of this background, she is particularly interested in literary analysis and argumentative papers, but is excited to work with writers on anything that interests them. She is wholeheartedly fascinated with what invests a writer in their writing and the emotive power of language. Her favorite part of the writing process is the development of ideas--she loves to see writers make long sought-after connections. When Emily is not at OWRC, she can be found in libraries working on her own writing, reading satire, or watching some of the worst movies ever made.

Erin
Graduate Tutor

Erin is a graduate student in Civil & Environmental Engineering. Originally from near Los Angeles, California, she’s been a Washingtonian for the past seven years. She hopes to develop environmental solutions at the intersection of water science, technology, and policy- especially through the interconnection of sustainable built environments and global health. In her undergraduate studies at the UW she majored in Microbiology and minored in Architecture. She has experience writing in many disciplines and is excited to help writers at all stages of the writing process. Brainstorming is one of her favorite parts of writing. When she’s not working on her degree, she loves to write songs, do ballet, paint watercolors, cross country ski, and hike. She’s still trying to learn how to sail.

Languages
French, Norwegian

Gary
Peer Mentor

Gary is a senior pursuing a BS in Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation Biology and a BA in English Language and Literature. He has experience working with many different types of texts ranging from personal statements to the classic five-paragraph literary analysis and is a firm believer of proper capitalization and the Oxford comma. Although he is more than happy to work with writers at any stage of the writing process, he is most comfortable with outlining and organization. Gary speaks fluent English and Cantonese and is conversational in Mandarin. In his free time, he enjoys taking food pictures, exercising, and studying up on his Harry Potter trivia knowledge.

Languages
English, Cantonese, Mandarin

Hannah F.
TLC Coordinator

Hannah is a third-year undergraduate student in the Interdisciplinary Honors program. She is majoring in Law, Societies, and Justice and minoring in Environmental Science and Resource Management. At the University of Washington, Hannah has written research papers, academic article reviews, research memos, annotated bibliographies, and more. She would love to help fellow students through any stage of the writing process, especially through brainstorming and refining ideas. Ask her about Targeted Learning Communities, - she is the coordinator for this program! In her free time, Hannah can usually be found outside. She is particularly fond of skiing, hiking, and climbing. She also makes a mean pie.

Languages
English

Helly
Undergraduate Tutor

Helly is a sophomore pursuing Computer Science. She’s over 8,000 miles away from home but, most probably, right where she’s supposed to be. She’s eagerly waiting for the hardware to catch up so that Quantum Computing could become a thing. Her favourite stages of the writing process are brain-storming, organisation and editing (in that order). She loves working with research-based writing, resumes and application essays. Helly is also really passionate about political and social issues and the role of comedy in addressing them. In her free time, she loves learning more about cryptography and reading science fiction novels, but for her, true bliss lies in watching anything with John Oliver in it. Fun Fact: She has been to all of Oliver’s stand-up shows ever since she came to the States!

Ida
Graduate Tutor

Ida is a concurrent JD/Sustainable International Development LLM candidate at the law school. She graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in Chinese Language and Literature and a minor in Philosophy. Her undergraduate academic research focused on 1930/40s Shanghainese feminist literature, and she’s always down to nerd out about Internet freedom laws in Asia. Prior to law school, she spent three years in China in different fields, including international development, education, and media. She has traveled extensively—and prefers street food over all other food. Her writing philosophy is that grocery lists are more poetic than sonnets, and she does the NYTimes crossword every day.

Languages
English, Mandarin Chinese

Jane A.
Undergraduate Tutor

Jane is a senior working toward an undergraduate degree in Microbiology. Most of her writing experience is with persuasive and research papers, but she has written in many other styles as well. Her favorite part of the writing process is the refining process, but she is, of course, excited to work with writers at any stage. In her spare time, Jane enjoys sci-fi and fantasy novels, videogames, traveling, skiing, and trying new restaurants.

Languages
English

Jazzy
Undergraduate Tutor

Jazzy is a fourth-year undergraduate student studying English and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies. Their academic interests orbit around Marxist feminism, critical race theory, queer studies, anticapitalist methodologies, and postcolonial and decolonial dialogues. Their research experience focuses on seeking alternative methods of understanding the self through a reworking of self-care as community-care. Their interest in communal practices is reflected in their own practice of helping writers refine their writing process. While they are comfortable with assisting in any stages and forms of writing, their expertise lies in developing ideas and analysis, strengthening claims, and organizing paragraphs in argumentative writing and personal statements. Outside of the OWRC, Jazzy is typically reading social theory, listening to post-rock, or browsing through Reddit.

Languages
English, Punjabi, and Hindi

John H.
Research Librarian & Tutor

John is the Expository Writing Librarian at the UW and a co-founder of the Writing & Research Center. He has a B.A. in English Studies from Michigan State University and an M.S. in Information Science from Wayne State University and has spent most of his librarianship teaching and promoting effective information use. John savors the ways in which the OWRC brings critical thinking, listening, reading, conversation, emotion, and writing into the construction of knowledge and in creating personal change for learners. He welcomes writers and researchers from all fields working on any projects, but especially enjoys discussing personal statements and literary or film studies. He can also help with presentations and posters and in finding alternative ways of presenting research to a variety of audiences. Away from his work, he enjoys films, theater, TV, and music, as well as being a lifelong Detroit Tigers fan, each season less reluctantly transferring a few more ounces of his loyalty to the Mariners.

Kathleen
Research Librarian

Kathleen has worked in libraries since she was 13 years old, became an official degree-carrying librarian after obtaining a Master's in Library and Information Studies from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and has worked at the UW Libraries since 2001. Her current position sees her wearing many hats, but she is happiest when she is helping people find the information they need for school, work, or just to satisfy their curiosity. She has B.A in History from the University of Maine at Farmington and is currently the UW Libraries subject librarian for Sociology and Children's and YA Literature. She is a member of the Libraries' citation tools team which helps support RefWorks, Zotero, and Mendeley, and she considers the humble footnote to be a thing of grace and beauty. When not working or wrangling her children, Kathleen is most often to be found with her nose in a book or a knitting project, the better to ignore her messy house.

Katie D.
Concierge Lead

Katie is the new Concierge Lead at the OWRC. She is a graduate student working on her Master’s in Library and Information Science. She holds a Master’s in Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing from Michigan State University. She worked at MSU’s Writing Center as both an undergraduate and as a graduate student. A recent transplant to Seattle, she has also lived in Chicago, New York, and Dublin, Ireland. Katie likes brainstorming, personal statements, résumés, and revising. 

Kelli
Graduate Tutor

Kelli is a graduate student in Library and Information Science. Her professional interests include archival decolonization, identity (re)construction through archival instruction and outreach, and digital collections. She received her B.A. in American Ethnic Studies and English with a minor in French from UW. Most of her writing experiences are in the humanities and social sciences, but she is happy to work with writers from any field. She is particularly fond of personal statements and helping writers develop their voices and ideas. In her free time, Kelli enjoys skiing, watching baseball games, running, exploring Happy Hours around the city, and being ignored by her cat Waffles.

Languages
English

Kim
Graduate Tutor

Kim is a first-year graduate student in the Masters of Global Health program. Additionally, she is pursuing a certificate in Human- Centered Design. Prior to joining UW's Writing & Research Center, Kim worked as an undergraduate writing tutor at Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI. Kim is eager to work with any writer, no matter the genre, or what stage they are in their writing process. Kim especially enjoys working with writers on research writing and personal statements. In her free time, Kim enjoys exploring - whether it's traveling abroad or finding adventures right here in Seattle!

Languages
English, Spanish

Kriya
Graduate Tutor

Kriya is a graduate student in multicultural education who's interested in the influence of historical knowledge and language in students' identities. He switched majors from chemistry to history in his senior year of college and had no regrets; he still loves chemistry. Writing is both an intended profession and a creative outlet for Kriya, who aspires to be a university professor someday. He feels confident in helping writers tease out their own ideas for a paper, though he doesn't shy away from diving into the nitty-gritty of commas and dashes. When not in the kitchen trying out a new recipe, you can find him practicing yoga trying out a new restaurant.

Languages
English, Tagalog

Laurette
Undergraduate Tutor

Laurette is a Political Science and Psychology double major with a minor in LSJ. She loves the brainstorming process writing, and bouncing ideas around to further improve essays. She has experience writing personal statements, resumes, research papers, and scientific article reviews, but is ready to help in any field! In her free time you can find her hanging out at her favorite coffee shop, spending time with friends, boxing, and cooking.

Languages
English, Spanish

Linda
Research Librarian

Linda is the First Year Experience Librarian at Odegaard Library and her job is to make sure that all new students know how great the UW Libraries are! Linda is the co-chair of the Libraries Student Advisory Committee, a great group of undergraduates who advise the libraries on ways to improve library services, resources, and spaces. Prior to this position, she was a librarian at the UW’s Engineering Library. An upstate New York native, Linda has a BS in Biology from Cornell University and an MLS in Library Science from SUNY Buffalo.  In her free time, Linda enjoys cooking, running, learning about nutrition, and solving New York Times crossword puzzles. 

Lizzy
Undergraduate Tutor

Lizzy is a second year undergraduate student intending to major in Neurobiology. She peer tutored throughout high school and has always enjoyed writing, and is currently an editor for Grey Matters, UW's student-run neuroscience journal. She is in the Interdisciplinary Honors program and has experience with a range of different academic writing styles, from research papers to literary analyses to personal statements. She welcomes writers from any stage of the writing process, and particularly enjoys working on idea development and organization. In her free time, Lizzy enjoys snowboarding, attending concerts, hanging out at the UW planetarium, and spending time outdoors.

Lukas
Undergraduate Tutor

Lukas is a sophomore in the interdisciplinary honors program intending to major in biology, with an interest in ecology and conservation. Having grown up in China, Lukas is fluent in Mandarin and likes to use his experiences to work with international students through some of the struggles of going to school in a new country. His favorite kinds of writing are social studies papers and creative essays, but he is happy to help writers with any kind of assignment, whether they are in the early brainstorming stages or rushing to make final revisions. Outside of school, Lukas enjoys playing basketball, hiking, cooking and reading novels.

Languages
English, Mandarin (fluent)

Mani
Undergraduate Tutor

Mani is a Senior studying Finance and Information Systems in the Foster School of Business and is interested in pursuing a career in Financial Advisory. She is always happy to help writers with any stage and genre of writing, but she especially enjoys helping writers with their personal statements, resumes and cover letters-- she loves helping others with their personal development needs! In her free time, she loves to go out for dessert, watch Netflix comedies and travel.

Languages
English, Punjabi, Hindi

Maranda
Undergraduate Tutor

Maranda is a fourth year student pursuing both Philosophy and Law, Societies, and Justice. She is incredibly excited about writing particularly due to the ability to convey so much information and emotion in any work. She enjoys working with any form of writing. She spends most of her free time creating collaborative stories online, but when in the wild she enjoys playing music and trying to find food.

Marie-Claire
Graduate Tutor

Claire is a second-year PhD student in Global Health. Her current research is focused on assessing the use of implementation science methods in low-and middle income countries. Most of her writing experiences are in the science fields, but she is also happy to work with writers in any field. She would like to support writers who need help developing research questions or thesis statements, framing arguments, and connecting themes - or any other support needed. She enjoys traveling and cooking international delicacies.

Languages
English

Marquis
Undergraduate Tutor

Marquis is a senior double majoring in Creative Writing and Communication. He has a passion for non-fictional writing, and helping writers expand on their ideas and brainstorming process. He enjoys analyze a variety of writing and research, and providing the most help in elements of craft and organization in creative writing and persuasive essays. His hobbies include writing short stories and scripts, gaming, and being a connoisseur of Shonda Rhimes television dramas.

Languages
English

Mary Grace
Graduate Tutor

Mary Grace is a second year Masters of Public Administration student at the Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. Her areas of expertise are Environmental Policy and Political Science. In the past she worked at a State Department Agency called EducationUSA where she helped international students apply to higher education programs in the United States. She has a ton of experience reading over resumes, cover letters, and personal statements, and particularly enjoys helping people present their best selfs on paper!

Languages
English, Spanish, Portuguese

Michaela
Undergraduate Tutor

Michaela is a third year student in the Interdisciplinary Honors Program pursuing a degree in Earth and Space Sciences. She is a budding astrobiology researcher who has always been fascinated by outer space. She enjoys working on organization and helping expand papers. Michaela has a background in and experience with many kinds of writing from grants and scientific writing to personal essays and likes to work with writers at any part of the writing process. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking and eating.

Languages
English

Misty Anne Winzenried
OWRC Director

Misty Anne is Director of the OWRC. She has a Bachelor’s degree in English, a Master’s degree in Counseling, and a PhD in Education. (Let’s just say she has always liked school). She is really interested in talking to students about what it’s like to learn to write in their majors. She also thinks it’s magical when she has a conversation with someone in which they stumble upon a new insight about themselves. When she’s not writing scholarly articles, she can often be found climbing mountains, cooking vegetarian meals, squeezing in a yoga class (which is not at all how one is supposed to practice yoga), and chasing after her adorable and precocious first grader.

Languages
English

Nancy
Graduate Tutor

Nancy is currently a PhD student in the Multicultural Education program with the College of Education. For her undergraduate studies, she spent three years in China and one year in Japan, majoring in English Language & Literature and Japanese Language & Literature. After immigrating to the U.S., she received her M.A. in Cultural Studies. Through her undergraduate schooling to her current graduate work, she has taken different paths academically and has been trying to broaden her horizon and knowledge as well as finding ways in which different fields intersect with one another.

She previously worked as a research assistant and teacher and has been working as a graduate student writing tutor at the OWRC since fall 2015. She is also a volunteer peer-reviewer for a journal.

She loves to help writers with their general writing, academic writing, and/or research related questions and writing.

Nick
Undergraduate Tutor

Nick is a senior at the Foster School of Business studying finance. His writing specialties include helping students prepare for the WSA, helping write personal statements, or any other business-related writing quandaries. He enjoys writing using an active voice, which is more prevalent in the business world than academia. He lives in Seattle and likes to ride mountain bike, and exercise at the gym.

Languages
English, C#, HTML & CSS

Niva
Undergraduate Tutor

Niva is a fourth year student studying Anthropology and Journalism. She's interested in finding new ways to incorporate issues of culture and society into engaging and innovative forms of storytelling. For writers, she would likely be most helpful during the brainstorming and refining stage; helping writers think about their approach to a prompt, and helping writers perfect their pieces for better flow and style. In her free time, she likes to do yoga, watch films, and travel (as much as she can).

Languages
English, Hebrew

Olivia K.
OWRC Coordinator

Olivia has a Bachelor’s degree in English and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Arts Leadership. Before joining the OWRC, she worked in museums and nonprofit arts organizations. Her experience with tutoring started in college as a volunteer English language tutor for an adult learner and her family. After taking a course in peer-assisted learning, she tutored first-year students in French language and college-level reading and study skills. She likes to help students realize their best learning style and to harness that power for future success. In her free time, Olivia enjoys listening to podcasts, rock climbing, and running.

Languages
English

Sarah
Undergraduate Tutor

Sarah is a Senior pursuing a double degree in Linguistics and Speech & Hearing Sciences and a minor in Japanese. Her time exploring majors at the UW and studying abroad in Japan has given her many opportunities to write and research in various styles and genres of academia including Political Science/International Relations, Literature, Linguistic analysis, and different personal statements and applications. Although Sarah sees the beauty in all stages of the writing process, she feels her tutoring is most effective when helping others brainstorm and develop their ideas. In her free time, Sarah enjoys making music (violin, piano, singing), hiking, having good conversations, and organizing her room.

Languages
English, Japanese

Sarvin
Undergraduate Tutor

Sarvin is a sophomore and has finally narrowed down her interests to two fields: Education, Communities, and Organizations and Law, Societies, and Justice—the mouthfuls. She’s trying to find space for minors in dance or informatics. Sarvin has taken ENGL 121 (therefore, familiar with the “portfolio” process) and has humanities-based research experience. She likes to work with writers in the refining process, but would love to chat with anyone in other stages as well. In her free time, she likes to tango, sing and play the ukulele, or play Pokemon Go.

Languages
English, Farsi

Shahbaz
Undergraduate Tutor

Shahbaz is not Superman in disguise. He's just a perpetually exhausted, mild-mannered English major in his third year at the UW. So what if he and Superman have never been seen in the same room together? That can be said about a lot of people! It's not really solid evidence--and Shahbaz would know, seeing as he's a writer/illustrator for The Daily. (Superman working for a newspaper. What a ridiculous notion!) While his background is primarily in opinion and arts journalism, his true passion lies in creative writing, as he feels telling stories is what he was put on this Earth to do. He has recently taken to screenwriting, but also dabbles writing short stories and poetry. He enjoys every stage of the writing process, but feels he's best suited for writers in the midst of a crisis--lack of ideas, tight deadline, unfamiliarity with the prompt, etc. Not because he's actually a super-powered champion of justice, but rather because he's been in those shoes more often than he cares to admit. Shahbaz is also an accomplished actor and stage director.

Languages
English, Urdu, and Hindi

Sheila
Undergraduate Tutor

Sheila is a sophomore in the Honors Program majoring in Philosophy with a minor in Classical Studies. Writing is a large part of her life; in her free time, she likes to write fiction and recently published a novel, The Torch in the Shadows. She has lots of experience in writing literary and philosophy essays, as well as scientific research papers. Her favorite aspect of writing is how personal and passionate it can be, no matter the genre. She is excited to work with students at any stage of the writing process. In her spare time, Sheila reads, writes, competes on UW Mock Trial, and plays video games.

Languages
English, Spanish, Telugu, reads Latin

Sizhe
Undergraduate Tutor

Sizhe is a junior majoring in BS Economics & Mathematics. She passionates about the process of idea-development in a variety of writings, such as personal statements and course works. As a bilingual, she can easily resonate with non-native speakers who struggle on producing fluent and insightful writing pieces in English. She is willing to work with writers to articulate their ideas by using concise and understandable language. She holds strong interests in macroeconomics, history and politics. She is fascinated by governments' impacts on consumption behaviors and firms' decisions. Becoming a chief economy reporter for a big newspaper or magazine would be her dream.

Languages
English, Chinese

Summer
Undergraduate Tutor

As a senior majoring in Creative Writing and minoring in Japanese, Summer loves to explore different languages and cultures and connect with people from all different backgrounds! She is experienced in writing and facilitating essays, personal statements, scholarship applications, and resumes but enjoys working on short stories and novels the most. Summer firmly believes that working together during the brainstorming process is the most exciting and challenging stage, because that’s when all the creative juices start to flow! During her free time, Summer likes to dabble in baking, dancing, learning new languages, leadership and Philosophy. In the future, Summer hopes to travel around the world and become an inspirational author that can touch the hearts of people from all around the world.

Languages
English (Fluent), Cantonese (Conversational), Japanese (Intermediate), ASL (Beginner)

Tait
Grad. Student Coordinator

Tait, the Graduate Student Coordinator at the OWRC, is a doctoral student in the Language and Rhetoric program where his area of research is Second Language Literacy. He studies how language learners in classroom settings respond to educational materials delivered in a range of genres and modes. At the writing center, he enjoys working with anyone who is reading or writing in a second language (or third or fourth or…) as well as with graduate students who are drafting dissertations or manuscripts for publication. Born and raised in Southeast Alaska, Tait has an A.B. in Chinese Language and Literature from Dartmouth College and a M.A. in TESOL from UW. Before he started his current program of study, he worked in China for an educational materials publisher and created comic strips for a children’s English language newspaper. As you read this, he is probably reading comics instead of finishing his dissertation.

Languages
English, Mandarin

Theresa
Graduate Tutor

Theresa is a graduate student pursuing her Masters in Early Childhood Special Education. She completed her Bachelors in Education at Western Washington University in 2017. During her undergraduate education, she worked at the circulation desk at Western Libraries in addition to working as a peer research and writing tutor. Helping students access the information and materials they need to thrive is a passion for Theresa and while she is eager to work with writers from blank paper to almost finished product, her favorite part of the writing process is helping writers integrate their research into their writing, and correctly citing it! In addition to assisting with research and citations, Theresa enjoys helping writers with personal statements and scholarship essays. In her free time, she enjoys baking pies, making quilts, and sailing!

Languages
English, some Spanish

Yuki
Peer Mentor

As a junior studying International Security, Yuki spends hours dissecting articles, journals, and books related to politics and international affairs. In her free time, she writes chapters for personal creative writing projects. Her favorite tutoring sessions involve brainstorming, where she can collaborate with writers to discover fantastic new ideas and produce strong outlines. Her hobbies include drawing, gardening, learning new languages, and taking care of her pet bunnies.

Languages
English