Keynote Speaker: Dr. Rachel Azima, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Dr. Rachel Azima (they/she) is the Writing Center Director and a Professor of Practice at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. They currently serve as Secretary of the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) Executive Board and have chaired the Midwest Writing Centers Association (MWCA) Executive Board. In 2018, they served as chair of the biennial MWCA conference, “Social Justice in the Writing Center: Opening the Center for All.” Their writing center scholarship has appeared in The Writing Center Journal and Praxis, and together with Katie Levin, Meredith Steck, and Jasmine Kar Tang, their edited collection, The Reluctant Supervisor: Recognizing and Rethinking Power in Writing Center Supervisory Practices, is forthcoming with Utah State University Press. They are also collaborating with Kelsey Hixson-Bowles and Neil Simpkins on a book-length study of the experiences of writing center leaders of color. Outside the writing center, they are hyperfixated on the prematurely canceled tv show Our Flag Means Death.