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WWf(a)C Faculty Bring Rich, Wide Experience
Teachers at WWf(a)C are dedicated, skilled and experienced in creative writing and the facilitation of groups. They are practicing writers, share their writing with one another, and are trained in the art of creating and holding a safe and welcoming community. Since 2004, current and new teachers are graduates of the Feminist Leadership Academy.
Together, WWf(a)C's teachers offer more than 125 years of professional classroom and group-facilitation experience.
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Mary Pierce Brosmer
Mary is a teacher, poet and feminist visionary who dreamed and then created a school which supports the lives of women and girls who are working to commit life to language.
At WWf(a)C her roles are maintaining vision and mission; teaching in the adult women's programs and the Feminist Leadership Academy; program creation and implementation; development and training of current artists and faculty; development of leaders for future staff locally and for sister schools throughout the country, and visioning for the future of the WWf(a)C movement.
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Kathleen Wade
As Executive Director, Kathy is responsible for the administrative operations and faculty leadership of Women Writing for (a) Change. Her first love is as a teacher and writer in the semester courses in the adult women's program, designs and facilitates workshops, and consults with individual writers. A fellow of the Ohio Writing Project, Kathy has conducted writing workshops for teachers in the Bay Area and in Cincinnati. Her poetry has appeared in Ohio Teachers Write, Plymouth Writers Group, and Cincinnati Neighborhood Poet Laureate anthologies.
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Ellen Doyle
Administrator - On the Radio, Faculty member.
Ellen is a graduate of the Women Writing for (a) Change Feminist Leadership Academy and serves on the WWf(a)C faculty and as Administrator of Women Writing for (a) Change on the Radio.
She is a member of the Ursulines of Brown County and has extensive leadership and organizational development experience in education and non-profit organizations.
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Mary Ann Jansen
Mary Ann is a graduate of the Women Writing for (a) Change Feminist Leadership Academy and a former student in a number of WWf(a)C semester classes. She is a member of the Ursulines of Brown County, a long time educator, and has background in retreat work and facilitation. She loved sports too much to pursue a degree in physical education, and when time allows she heads to the Smoky Mountains with a journal and camera.
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Andrea Nichols
Andrea Nichols is a 2004 graduate of the Feminist Leadership Academy and serves as a faculty member in the young women and girls programs, as well as in the women's core semester classes. She also teaches creative writing at Lakota East High School. Her public school teaching career has been defined greatly by being a long time member of the Tuesday night WWf(a)C class, where she learned to walk more consciously and confidently in the world.
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Jenn Reid
Jenn is a 2004 graduate of the Feminist Leadership Academy and serves as a faculty member in the young women and girls programs, as well as acting as Co-Director of Young Women Writing for (a) Change. She has taught creative writing at Madeira High School in Cincinnati since 1999. Jenn's public school teaching career has been defined greatly by being a long-time member of the Tuesday night WWf(a)C class, where she learned to walk more consciously and confidently in the world.
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Sally Schneider
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Sally’s first exposure to Women Writing for a Change was a Saturday sampler class that she and her (then) ten-year-old daughter attended in 2002. The encouragement and warmth that she experienced on that frigid February morning “hooked” her, and she’s been an enthusiastic member of the community ever since. After seven consecutive semesters as a student in Kathy Wade’s morning class, Sally attended the Feminist Leadership Academy of Cincinnati and graduated with her fellow “Builders” in June, 2006. She served as an assistant / apprentice to Mary Ann Jansen before assuming a faculty position in January 2007.
Being a teacher at Women Writing for a Change is a “pinch me this is too good to be true" job for Sally. For three decades (since she received her degree in elementary education from Miami University), Sally had wondered what she wanted to be when she grew up. Now she knows! As a facilitator of WWfaC classes, Sally gets to do all the things she loves best: writing, reading, listening, nurturing, and empowering…and she gets to do it with other warm, wise, creative and conscious friends and mentors.
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Phebe Beiser
A 2006 graduate of the Feminist Leadership Academy, Phebe (Karen) Beiser attended her first WWfaC writing class in the Fall of 2004. She is currently co-teaching the Living & Leading Like a Poet class.
Phebe recently retired as librarian with the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County. She received a Bachelor’s in English from Miami University and a Masters in Library Science from the University of Kentucky.
Since the 1970’s, Phebe has been involved in the local feminist community and served on Crazy Ladies Center’s Board. She founded the Ohio Lesbian Archives and has been active in women’s spirituality groups. She currently writes a monthly column in Q City News.
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Anni Gibson
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Anni Macht Gibson is a writer who splits her time between Cincinnati, Ohio and Traverse City, Michigan. Anni’s first collection of poetry, "Unfinished," was published in the Spring of 2007.
Anni has been a writer in the Tuesday morning class for many semesters and is a 2006 graduate of the Feminist Leadership Academy. She serves on the Board of the Women Writing for (a) Change Foundation and facilitates a WWfaC writing circle at the Cincinnati YWCA Battered Women’s Shelter.
A marketing manager for a Fortune 500 company for 24 years, Anni has been writing since her retirement in 2001. She is inspired by the natural setting around her cottage in Traverse City, where she plans to offer retreats for aspiring writers.
She earned her bachelor’s degree from Goucher College in 1974 and a Masters of Education with a concentration in Communications from Xavier University in 1977. She serves in several volunteer capacities, in addition to those at Women Writing for (a) Change, and enjoys needlework in her free time. She can be contacted via www.womenwritingupnorth.com
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Forrest Brandt
In 2004, when men were invited to the Living & Leading Like a Poet class, Forrest (Woody) Brandt joined WWfaC. He has also been a student in the Craft class. After thirty years as a classroom teacher, Woody now teaches writing at Northern Kentucky University. He began the first Men Writing for Change class in January of 2007.
His interest in writing began in high school. He was a writer and photographer for "The Lantern," the student newspaper at Ohio State University, and for the Army’s First Infantry Division in Vietnam. He earned his Master’s in Education at the University of Cincinnati and is an Ohio Writing Project Fellow at Miami University, where he began work on a memoir.
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Barbra Druffel
Barbra Druffel came to WWf(a)C to round out a life already full, as the mother of two and a full time professional realtor since 1981. She is a graduate of the Feminist Leadership Academy, which helped her to explore her interest in and passion for the
elderly. Barbra was a member of the Wednesday night class for many semesters and teaches sampler classes for WWf(a)C and a writing circle at Evergreen Retirement Community.
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Beverly Palmer
Bev is a graduate of the pioneering class of the Feminist Leadership Academy and a former WWf(a)C student. A former English teacher and social worker, Bev holds a BA in Education and a Masters in Counseling Psychology from the University of Evansville in Indiana, where she was a founding board member of the city's first shelter for battered women and served on the statewide Coalition Against Domestic Violence, helping to draft legislation to protect women and children in abusive situations. Bev is a lifelong journaler and daily yoga practitioner who takes writing inspiration from her observations of the natural world and the interconnection of all living beings.
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