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A past president of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and a past chair of CCCC, Anne Ruggles Gere has been a member of NCTE for over 30 years. She is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Gertrude Buck Collegiate Professor at the University of Michigan, where she serves as Director of the Sweetland Center for Writing and as chair of the Joint PhD Program in English and Education. She has published a dozen books and more than 75 articles. In 2018, she will become the president of the Modern Language Association. Lizzie Hutton, an NCTE member since 2014, is a doctoral candidate in the Joint PhD Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan and research assistant at the Sweetland Center for Writing. Her current work focuses on the overlap between post-secondary literary and literacy instruction. Benjamin Keating, an NCTE member since 2014, is a doctoral candidate in the Joint PhD Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan and research assistant at the Sweetland Center for Writing. His interests include anti-racist theory and practice, translingual pedagogy, and peer response discourse in the college writing classroom. Anna V. Knutson, an NCTE member since 2012, is a doctoral student in the Joint Program in English and Education at the University of Michigan and research assistant at the Sweetland Center for Writing, who is interested in the transfer of extracurricular literacy learning. Naomi Silver, an NCTE member since 2004, is Associate Director of the Sweetland Center for Writing at the University of Michigan, where she is also a faculty lecturer. She has published on reflective pedagogies, multiliteracies, and WAC/WID in edited collections and journals such as College Composition and Communication and Praxis. Christie Toth, an NCTE member since 2006, was a research assistant in the Sweetland Center for Writing from 2010–13. She is now assistant professor of writing and rhetoric studies at the University of Utah and researches a variety of issues related to two-year college writing instruction. She is currently working on a book project about the writing experiences of students transferring between Salt Lake Community College and the University of Utah.