Officers
The NJWA is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, volunteer-run organization. Here are the officers for the 2022-2023 year.
President: Michelle Rubano
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Michelle Rubano has been teaching High School English for 8 years and earned her Master of Arts in Teaching from The College of New Jersey in 2009. Having taught in the vocational and traditional setting, Michelle has presented professional development workshops in the areas of writing and student engagement. She is currently teaching at Delran High School and has been collaborating with her science colleagues to develop writing instruction in the sciences. Her involvement in the Writing Alliance stemmed from a desire to network with passionate educators looking to constantly transform instruction in the areas of reading and writing.
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Treasurer: Olga Polites
Contact Olga Polites Olga Polites teaches English in the Lenape Regional High School District, and College Composition at Rowan University. For the last 20 years she has had articles published in English Journal, Newsweek, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Secretary: Laurie Hunter
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Contact Laurie Hunter
Laurie Hunter has been an English teacher in the Freehold Regional High School District for over 20 years, serving on multiple curriculum, mentoring, and professional development programs over her tenure at Howell High School. She received her Master of Arts from Trenton State College in 1997 and teaches college-level English Composition and Short Story courses through Brookdale Community College's dual-enrollment program.
Program Chairs: Jason Luther and Jackie Partyka
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Contact Jason Luther
Jason Luther is an assistant professor of Writing Arts at Rowan University. He teaches Methods of Analysis and the Evaluation of Writing; Writing, Research, and Technology; Introduction to Writing Arts; and Self-Publishing. His research focuses on DIY culture, publishing, publics, and sound writing. Jason has presented at several national conferences and has recently co-edited both a special issue of Community Literacy Journal and the 2017 edition of The Best of the Journals in Rhetoric and Composition. Contact Jackie Partyka
Jaclyn Partyka is a lecturer in Writing Arts at Rowan University, and has previously taught in the School of Critical Studies at The University of the Arts and the English Department at Temple University. At Rowan, she teaches in both the Writing Arts major and in the First-Year Writing program, where she works to foster reflective approaches to digital literacy within the writing process. Her research focuses on authorship, genre, and contemporary multimodal literacies. Dr. Partyka’s scholarly writing has appeared in Contemporary Literature and Metaliterate Learning for the Post-Truth World (2018) and she has forthcoming chapters in the edited collections Trump Fiction: Essays on Donald Trump in Literature, Film, and Television (2020) and Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority, Fictionality.
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Host Site Coordinator: Amy Woodworth
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Contact Amy Woodworth
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Amy Woodworth is the Chair of Writing Arts at Rowan University. She has taught college-level writing for 18 years at Rowan University, Temple University, and Rutgers University at Newark, as well as courses in American Studies, Women's Studies, and Film. Her interests include basic writing, writing in the disciplines, genres and knowledge transfer, gender, and film adaptation, and she currently serves as a co-chair for the Philadelphia Council of Writing Program Administrators.
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Webtender: Jude Miller
Contact Jude Miller Jude Miller holds a faculty position in Rowan University's Writing Arts Department, where he is the Course Coordinator for CCII, which is the First-Year Writing Program’s research-based persuasive writing course. Since 2007 he has been teaching and tutoring college and pre-college-level composition, literature, linguistics, and film at a variety of institutions, including Rowan University, Rutgers University, The University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Drexel University, and Camden County College.
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Past President: Kristie-Anne Opaleski-Dimeo
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Contact Kristie-Anne Opaleski-Dimeo
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Kristie-Anne Opaleski-DiMeo has been teaching high school English in the Jackson School District from 2001 to present, received her Master of Arts in English from The College of New Jersey in 2006, became an adjunct professor at Monmouth University in 2008 and an instructional coach for Jackson Liberty High School in 2014. She has published a strategy guide for the National Council Teachers of English (2014) and has presented at state and national conferences on writing and reading strategies to aid in the transition between high school and college.
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