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	Phil Bratta Phil Bratta is a Ph.D student in Rhetoric and Writing at Michigan State University. His interests are in rhetorics of activism and art, visual rhetorics, community engagement, digital writing, and pedagogy. He was Managing Co-Chair of the 2014 Cultural Rhetorics Conference and recently received the MSU COGS Disciplinary Leadership Award. Phil has been involved with art activism since 2008, significantly participating in #midwesthungeris, The Cradle Project, One Million Bones, and Public Action for Change. He has published in The Journal of American Culture (September 2009) and is co-editor for the Cultural Rhetorics Special Issue in enculturation: journal of rhetoric, writing, and culture (forthcoming).
	Ezekiel Choffel Ezekiel Choffel is a masters student in the Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing Program at Michigan State University. His research focuses on Native and Indigenous methodologies in the field of cartography.
	Dànielle Nicole DeVoss Dànielle Nicole DeVoss is a professor of Professional Writing at Michigan State University. Her research interests include digital–visual rhetorics; feminist interpretations of and interventions in computer technologies; and intellectual property issues in digital space. DeVoss' work has most recently appeared in Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy; Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture; and College English. Her recent books include Because Digital Writing Matters (with Elyse Eidman-Aadahl and Troy Hicks, 2010, Jossey-Bass); Copy(write): Intellectual Property in the Writing Classroom (with Martine Courant Rife and Sean Slattery, 2012, Parlor Press); Understanding and Creating Multimodal Projects (2012, Bedford/St. Martin's); Digital Writing Assessment and Evaluation (with Heidi McKee, 2013, CCDP/Utah State University Press); and Cultures of Copyright (with Martine Courant Rife, 2014, Peter Lang).
	John Gagnon John Gagnon is a Ph.D. student and University Distinguished Fellow in the Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures Department at Michigan State University. He specializes in cultural rhetorics and is primarily interested in the intersections of rhetoric and activism in marginalized communities. His recent work has explored visually and digitally mediated responses to contemporary slavery. John holds J.D. and M.S. degrees from Tulane University and a B.A. from Andrews University.
	Laura Gonzales Laura Gonzales is a PhD student in the department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures and a University Distinguished Fellow at Michigan State University. Her research examines the intersections of linguistic diversity and technology in technical and professional communication. Before starting her doctoral program at MSU, Laura taught writing at the University of Central Florida, where she began exploring how multilingual learners exhibit advanced proficiency in multimodal composing.
	Jack Hennes Jack Hennes is currently a PhD student in the Rhetoric & Writing program at Michigan State University. Previously, he received an M.A. in Rhetoric & Writing and a B.A. in English Studies, both from St. Cloud State University. His research interests include multimodal pedagogy, community writing, environmental rhetoric, and experience architecture (UX).
	Shewonda Leger Shewonda Leger is an MA student currently completing her thesis at Michigan State University in Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing. Her research touches areas in Cultural and African-American Rhetorics, such as representations of black bodies, identity, feminism, Womanism, natural hair and filmmaking.
	Rohit Mehta Rohit Mehta is a PhD student in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology at Michigan State University. His research focuses on visual and media literacy, scientific literacy, and aesthetics. His teaching currently focuses on creativity in teaching and learning.
	Maria Novotny Maria Novotny is a PhD student in Rhetoric & Writing at Michigan State University. Her area of study is in cultural rhetorics focusing on rhetorics of motherhood, pregnancy and infertility. She further studies public rhetoric, focusing on legislation that advocates for reproductive and adoption rights via critical race and queer theory.
	Cait Ryan Cait Ryan is a Design Researcher at TechSmith Corporation. She helps her fellow TechSmithies deeply understand the people they serve and the contexts in which they work in order to create meaningful experiences via software. She is also a graduate student at Michigan State University studying Digital Rhetoric & Professional Writing. Her research interests include user-centered design, contextual user research, organizational cultures and experience architecture.
	Trevor Sutton Trevor Sutton is a master's student in Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing. He holds a Master's of Divinity from Concordia Seminary (St. Louis, Missouri) and an B.A. in English from Concordia University (Ann Arbor, Michigan). He is a graduate fellow with the Au Sable Institute of Environmental Studies. Trevor's current research interests are in the role of location in rhetoric, the rhetoric of ecology, and the dialogue between faith and science.
	Heather Young Heather Noel Young is a PhD student of Rhetoric and Writing at Michigan State University. Her research seeks to answer questions concerning visual rhetoric, digital writing, and composition pedagogy.