About Us

Peer Tutoring Staff

Our staff is made up of undergraduate tutors and a few graduate tutors. You can find out more about each staff member when you look at our tutoring schedule. You can find out about their hobbies and interests, what brings them to tutoring, and what they like about working with people.

Administrative Staff

The people who organize the Writing Center are here to answer your questions and support you in your journey as a writer. We support, hire, and train tutors and work with the rest of the Evergreen community on issues that affect student services and writing instruction. We are each happy to respond to any questions you have—about the Writing Center or about Evergreen in general.

All Admin	Writing Center DL	writingcenterstaff@evergreen.edu	Contacting everyone at once is most efficient for most needs!
Sandra Yannone, PhD	Faculty Director	yannons@evergreen.edu	Sandra (Sandy) connects directly with faculty, provides guidance for our work, and teaches Cultivating Voice: A Writing Tutor's Craft every spring. You can read more about her background as a writer, poet, reading host, and more in her faculty bio.

Our Mission

Our mission is to support Evergreen writers of diverse abilities and identities by cultivating confidence, skills, self-awareness, and agency at every stage of the writing process through peer-to-peer collaboration.

Our Vision

We envision a Writing Center…
...where all students feel they can lay claim to the identity of “writer”
...where all students leave each session with increasing confidence in their next steps
...with a reputation for providing valuable support services for the Evergreen community
...that is accountable for its failings and is working towards growth and improvement
...that serves the authentic needs of students and provides them with useful resources
...that engages the dynamic tension between equitable student access to the languages of power and recognizes the validity of writing in “Multiple Englishes”
...where the staff is representative of the community we serve
...that collaborates with other on-campus support services to serve students
...where all students across diverse abilities and identities feel comfortable and empowered to use the Writing Center
...that holds the institution accountable to continually engage in the pursuit of equity as it relates to student writing

Conversations

The Writing Center pursues its mission in relationship to many levels of stakeholders, including the diverse students of Evergreen, the Administration of the College, the Faculty, the greater community of Writing Centers in higher education, and the greater community of writers at large. We hope through this collection of letters to reveal our history of thought and include ourselves in the ongoing dialogues about how to best serve our multilayered communities.