CLC Intern Kathryn Hulings is currently an undergraduate at Colorado State University, where she is fulfilling the requirements for both the Creative Writing and English Education concentrations. Kathryn's area of emphasis at the CLC during the 2007-2008 school year will be on developing a Zine project at The Turning Point Center, through the Speak Out! Writing Workshops. In addition, Kathryn will pursue research concerning various assessment tools used to evaluate the outcomes of writing workshops with at-risk youth, with the hope of creating a new methodology to complement existing models. A firm believer that literacy is synonymous with participation, Kathryn is committed to finding and implementing strategies which provide direct avenues to both inclusive education and showcases for voices that are often excluded from the public discourse.

Kathryn, a nontraditional student, is married and has five children (ages 25, 23, 22, 18, & 16) and three dogs (a beagle, yellow lab, and border collie). She returned to school in 2005 to begin what she calls her "second academic incarnation," and to preemptively contend with the "empty nest" she saw creeping over her personal horizon. During the years that she stayed at home to raise her children, Kathryn was also an active community volunteer, worked as an advocate for children with special needs, served as a Community Coordinator for the Colorado Department of Education's Community Infant Services Review, and led poetry workshops at the elementary school level.

After the much anticipated, ceremonious flipping of her tassel and tossing of her cap that will hopefully occur in May of 2009, Kathryn hopes to teach language arts at the middle school level and to enter a low-residency MFA program. Kathryn is an aspiring writer in the genres of creative nonfiction, screenwriting, and poetry; she cannot imagine a day sans the privilege of writing and reading. As such, she is honored to work with the CLC in their efforts to augment and celebrate community literacy.

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