Introductions

Hi everyone,

Welcome! I'm so excited to be working with each of you on this workshop and am really looking forward to our collaboration over the next year.

To get started, I was hoping we could introduce ourselves to each other and provide a short overview of our community outreach efforts. I can then compile that information for the IWCA 2008 planning committee.

After we do this, I'll do another post suggesting possible plans for our workshop and ask for everyone's response. That will lead to our abstract that we need to send to them.

Hopefully we can do this over the next three weeks or so, as IWCA would like us to get that info to them fairly soon.

Thanks for your willingness to participate. I think this is going to be great.

Tiffany

My introduction:
I've taught at Salt Lake Community College for the past 14 years in the English department. In 2001, SLCC opened the SLCC Community Writing Center located in a downtown Salt Lake City neighborhood. Now located on the plaza of the SLC Main Library, the Community Writing Center supports, motivates and educates people of all abilities and educational backgrounds who want to use writing for practical needs, civic engagement and personal expression. In addition to an open space available for writing, we provide opportunities to enhance writing abilities through such programs as Writing Coaching, Writing Worskhops, Writing Partners and the DiverseCity Writing Series. I've directed the center since its inception.