Directors

Mark Dziedzic

mdziedzic@wisc.edu

Mark Dziedzic is a director of the Greater Madison Writing Project, University of Wisconsin–Madison’s affiliate of the National Writing Project. He has been facilitating professional learning and teacher action research with pre-K-12 educators from across Wisconsin with the School of Education’s outreach office since 2009. Prior to joining the outreach office, Dziedzic was an elementary and middle school teacher in Colorado and Wisconsin. He also taught a methods course and supervised student teachers in the UW–Madison Elementary Education program.

 

Bryn Orum

bryn.orum@wisc.edu

Bryn Orum is a director for the Greater Madison Writing Project where she coordinates programs for youth and educators. Key projects include Rise Up & Write: a youth advocacy writing summer camp, and the College, Career, and Community Writers Program (C3WP): a National Writing Project program that supports the teaching of evidence-based argument writing. Previously, she co-founded and taught high school English at Clark Street Community School in Middleton, Wisconsin. Orum studied literacy and English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where she earned her bachelor of arts and master of science degrees. Much of her work in education has focused on equitable and innovative environments.

 

Kate Vieira

kevieira@wisc.edu

Kate Vieira is associate professor and the Susan J. Cellmer Distinguished Chair in Literacy in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the faculty director of the Greater Madison Writing Project. She is the author of American by Paper: How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy (University of Minnesota Press, 2016; Honorable Mention CCCC Outstanding Book Award, 2017) and Writing for Love and Money: How Migration Drives Literacy Learning in Transnational Families (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). She is a recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Award (2018-2019), a Spencer/National Academy of Education Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015-2016), a CCCC Chair’s Research Initiative Grant (2017), and the Donald Murray Prize for Creative Nonfiction (2018). Her areas of specialization include writing studies, writing and peace building, composition and rhetoric, and migration and literacy.