Here is what Alex had to say about her time at the Writing Center:
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| Alexa speaking at the Queer Monologues last semester (Photo credit: The Valley Vanguard) |
"I will be completing my fourth semester at the Writing Center before graduating this May.
Outside of regular tutoring, I’ve also presented at the East Central Writing Center
Association conference as well as at the Michigan Writing Center Association
conference and I’ve tutored at the Saginaw Community Writing Center as a
facilitator of the creative writing workshops. I’ve had the opportunity to
attend the Bear River Writer’s Retreat at Camp Michigania last June, where I
participated in Thomas Lynch’s memoir writing workshop. I then co-facilitated a
memoir writing workshop in the Fall for members of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.
I believe that writing is important because it allows people to connect with
one another in communities that bind people together through both their
similarities and differences."
Alexa believes that tutoring writing is important because it allows her to build connections with people that are different than her. She writes: "Language is
ever-evolving and changing, and tutoring at the Writing Center allows me to
constantly learn and evolve along with it. I’ve learned a lot about myself in
my work at the Writing Center and I’ve been able to grow both professionally
and personally in the time that I’ve been here."
When she's not in the Writing Center, Alexa is also heavily involved in other activities both on- and off-campus: "Outside of the Writing Center,
I’m also a member of the Sexuality and Gender Spectrum Alliance at SVSU and I’m
a victim advocate at the Sexual Assault Center in Saginaw. I’m also the poetry
editor of Cardinal Sins, SVSU’s
literature and art publication. After graduation, I plan on attending the
University of Oregon’s Environmental Sciences, Studies, and Policy PhD program
with a focal department in English."
