Meet the Staff: 2009 - 2010

Sandra L. Yannone, Ph.D.
Director of the Writing Center
Member of the Faculty

Sandy is the shepherd of all the peer cats in the Writing Center. She oversees the hiring, tutor training, and on-going professional development of the Writing
Center staff. She also works to maintain hospitable, friendly, educationally rigorous environments for writers visiting the main Center in Library 2304 and its satellite locations in A Dorm (with Prime Time Advising) and the Tacoma program. Sandy also consults with faculty to encourage best practices for the teaching of writing across Evergreen's curriculum and collaborates with staff colleagues to provide additional writing services to students. As a member of the faculty, Sandy annually performs governance for the College.

Sandy holds a BA from Wheaton College, an MFA from Emerson College, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has published her poems and book reviews in Ploughshares, CALYX: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Prairie Schooner, The Gay and Lesbian Review (World-wide), and the Seattle Review, among others.

She also is the owner of Kitschlandia, an export business specializing in '50s kitsch.

Michael Radelich
Learning Resource Specialist (Fall, Winter, Spring only)

Michael hails originally from NYC, by way of being stuck in the flat, frigid, and arid Midwest for 15 years. At Evergreen, he works one-on-one with all types of students in writing, literature, and mathematics. At home, he gardens, cooks, makes furniture, makes art, and studies film. He was runner up for GQ's Watermelon Head Man of the Year for the last four years in a row, narrowly beat out by Jude Law in 2004.

Dana Oride
Assistant to the Director
Writing Tutor

What I enjoy most about tutoring is the conversation, talking to people about things they actually care about, discovering with them what they believe, what they can prove. Hopefully, the practice of tutoring is the practice of good, productive conversation. I'm not here to disapprove,

to validate, or to fix. I'm here to talk to writers and put writers in conversation with their own writing.