The Center for Community Literacy
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Meet The Center for Community Literacy Staff!

Tobi Jacobi is a composition and literacy specialist in the CSU English Department and the current co-director of the Center for Community Literacy.

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Fabiola P. Ehlers-Zavala, Ph.D., a native of Valparaíso, Chile, is Assistant Professor in TESOL/pedagogical linguistics, teaching courses in the M.A. in English with focus on teaching English as a foreign and second language, TEFL/TESL. She is also currently serving as co-director of the Center for Community Literacy, Research and Outreach in the Department of English at Colorado State University.

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CLC Assistant Director Janelle Adsit published her first book in first grade. The cover was made of wallpaper and cardboard. She loves to write everything but bios.

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CLC Intern Jessi Rochel has been addicted to reading since that fateful day in first grade.

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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.

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CLC Intern Mandy Billings finds it strange to speak about herself in the third person, but she sees that everyone else has written their bios in this manner and she’s certainly not a person to shake things up. Oh no.

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CLC Intern Melanie Witt is currently a graduate student in the TESL/TEFL program (Teaching English as Second/Foreign Language) in the English department at Colorado State University. She currently teaches English at the Intensive English Program at CSU and is active member of the student-based advocacy group on campus. Melanie is interested in promoting awareness and interest in multilingualism/multiliteracies and the teaching of English to speakers of other languages.

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Former Staff Members and Their Blogs