Donna Ashmus is a technical consultant on electronic publishing for the Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network. Donna has extensive experience with designing World Wide Web pages, conducting usability testing, and desktop publishing. As a former English teacher, Donna's special interest is integrating multimedia into the classroom environment.

Elizabeth Bailey, who heads the English Department at Thayer Academy, Braintree, MA, has served for many years as special assistant to the program in writing at the Bread Loaf School of English. She has special expertise in teacher research and in networked writing programs.

Carolyn Benson is Administrative Associate and Program Coordinator for Write to Change. Carolyn, who has worked with Clemson Writing in the Schools and the South Carolina Cross-Age Tutoring project for several years, is the primary contact person for Write to Change.

Chris Benson is the editor of the Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network's journal, which features the work of rural teachers and students participating in a Bread Loaf School of English program funded by DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. He is a publication coordinator for Write to Change and assists groups developing student writing projects that serve the students' schools and communities. Chris's special interest is in writing across the curriculum and writing for the community.

Laura Bernieri has worked for twenty years in theater, television, film, and video. She received her B.A. from Hampshire College in 1972, and trained at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and the National Shakespeare Company in New York. In 1986 she founded Harvard Square Scriptwriters, a writers' cooperative that develops screenplays. She has written, produced, and directed a series of videos for the Andover Bread Loaf Writing Workshop. She has been a producer for two award winning feature films: The Darien Gap and Squeeze.

Lou Bernieri has been a teacher and coach at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts since 1977, where he served as English Department Chair from 1989-1991; directed the Headmaster's Symposium on Race Relations; and was awarded a Kennan Grant for creative writing. A graduate of Harvard (B.A.) and the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College (M.A.), he has directed the Andover Bread Loaf Writing Workshop since 1987 and co-directed the Andover Bread Loaf Workshop for South Africa Teachers for four years. Lou has worked with teachers, administrators, college students and faculty, and community members to build reform networks for urban teachers and their students. Lou directs Writing for the Community partnerships in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Ohio.

Gary Braudaway, a certified Applied Learning teacher who has taught English at the high school level for thirteen years in Ft. Worth, Texas, has been involved with Writing for the Community since 1991. He is past Director of the Applied Learning Academy in Ft. Worth where he organized a district-wide Applied Learning convention. In 1994, he received the Texas Excellence Award for Outstanding High School Teacher from the Exxon Education Foundation. His work has been highlighted in numerous publications.

Margaret Cintorino heads the Humanities Department and teaches English at Fair Haven Union High School, Fair Haven, Vermont. Margaret has worked with her students on Writing for the Community projects since 1991. She has served as Co-Director of Writing for the Community, and collaborated on the writing and editing of the WFC manual. Margaret is a graduate of the Bread Loaf School of English (1993). Her special interests include teacher research in the area of small group discourse, school and community writing partnerships, and poetry.

Carol Collins is a visiting assistant professor of theater at Clemson University. She is the Director of Writing and Performing Across Cultures, a program that serves over sixty K-12 teachers from eighteen states, using drama to promote lively discourse in classrooms across the curriculum and to motivate and improve student writing. A graduate of Eastern Michigan University (M.A.) and Yale University (M.F.A.), Carol is past Director of Arts Education at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Connecticut and former coordinator of South Carolina's statewide Arts in Basic Curriculum project. She has directed staff development workshops and artist residencies in many public and private schools.

Rocky Gooch is Director of Telecommunications for the Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network. Rocky has extensive experience training teachers and students to use electronic communications and to integrate technology into their classrooms. He has conducted media production workshops (photography, film, videotape) for children, young people, and adults. Since 1986 he has been involved in writing for the community projects and research. His special interest is in technology (networks, distance learning, hypermedia) in rural schools and communities and in the related issues of access and equity. Rocky speaks frequently to rural educators about "The Information Dirt Road."

Dixie Goswami has taught professional writing at the graduate and undergraduate level for many years, with a special interest in international and risk communications. A member of the faculty at the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College, and coordinator of the Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network, she has worked with many teachers and students on shared inquiries and writing projects that actively engage them with technology and that include agendas for change. Dixie directs Write to Change, a nonprofit organization that places students at the center of reform efforts. Former research scientist at the American Institute for Research, she is a specialist in document design and usability testing.

Tharon Howard teaches electronic publishing, multimedia authoring, desktop publishing, and other graduate and undergraduate courses in English at Clemson University. Tharon is chair of the Committee on Instructional Technology for the National Council of Teachers of English and is recognized nationally for his work in networked education. He is consultant to the Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network and to the Alliance for Computers and Writing. Currently, he manages usability testing research projects that engage students in service and action research in business and industry.

Margie Kleinneiur has been a teacher at Lake Highlands Junior High School in Dallas, Texas, since 1972, where she has been the English Department Chair for eleven years. A graduate of the University of Kansas (B.S.) and the Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College (M.A.), she has been involved since 1991 in Writing for the Community projects with her students and the larger community of Dallas. Her ninth-graders have created brochures for the American Cancer Society to distribute to teenagers in Texas. Her students have researched juvenile diabetes and developed brochures for Dallas Children's Medical Center for teenagers when they first learn they have the disease. Also her ninth-graders have completed a summer newsletter for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and a new student handbook for their school.

James Kubacki is principal of St. Edwards High School in Lakewood, Ohio. He received a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.S. from Fordham University. He has worked as Dean of Students at Walsh Jesuit High School in Ohio, Assistant Director of Admissions at Princeton University, and athletic director and art history teacher at Middlesex School in Massachusetts. He is a trustee of the Center for Families and Children in Cleveland, whose eighteen agencies include the RapArt Center, Day Care Center, and Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counseling Center for Cleveland's urban community.

Michael Smith is Deputy Director of the Philadelphia Education Fund, one of the country's largest educational reform partnerships. He has previously been Executive Director of PATHS/PRISM: The Philadelphia Partnership for Education and has been active in national educational reform efforts through the Public Education Fund Network and the CHART Network. He has served as Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and as Acting President of Winthrop University, and on a number of policy groups and committees associated with higher education, community development, and educational reform in South Carolina and Pennsylvania.

J. Elspeth Stuckey, who directed the South Carolina Cross-Age Tutoring project, has written widely on the politics of literacy. Her most recent book is the Violence of Literacy, and her forthcoming book is Baby You Know What the Bone Yard Is: Fearless Education in the Segregated South. The Cross-Age Tutoring project began in 1987 in rural schools and involved students of all ages and grade levels. This low-cost project enjoyed consistent and extended success with students labeled "at Risk." Elspeth co-directed the Piney Woods Country Life School/Bread Loaf Summer Institute for teachers of African-American children.

Douglas Wood taught at Summit Parkway Middle School in Columbia, South Carolina, and is now studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Doug is technical consultant to the Bread Loaf Rural Teacher Network and was awarded Technology Educator of the Year in his district in 1995. His classroom was featured in "Promises, Promises," a PBS Merrow Report on technology in education which aired in 1995.

Art Young, Professor of English and Engineering, holds the Campbell Chair for Technical Communication at Clemson University. He was formerly the Head of Humanities at Michigan Technological University, where he instituted a writing across the curriculum program of national reputation. Art has written widely on writing in the disciplines and has served as a consultant to schools and universities across the country and internationally.

Over thirty other specialists have worked on various projects over the years as members of the Write to Change team.