Director:
Kelly Sassi
Kelly Sassi is a Professor of English and education at North Dakota State University. She succeeded Kim Donehower as Director in 2014.
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Phone: (701) 231-7156
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Email: kelly.sassi@ndsu.edu
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Interim Director:
Ben Melby
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Ben Melby is a Senior Lecturer in the NDSU English department, who teaches a wide range of first-year and upper-division writing courses. He is committed to teaching social and environmental justice. Since becoming a TC (teaching consultant) in 2016, he has experienced first-hand how the writing project works to connect, support, and inspire a broader community of writers—across grade-level boundaries, across community boundaries, and across geographic boundaries. He looks forward to an expanded role within the Red River Valley Writing Project while serving as interim director this year while Kelly Sassi is on developmental leave.
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Email: benjamin.melby@ndsu.edu
Co-Director:
Angela Hase
Angela Hase became co-director of the RRVWP in 2018, after co-facilitating two institutes on the College, Career, and Community Writers Program.
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Email: ahase@moorheadschools.org
Writing Group
Leader:
Kim Rensch
Kim Rensch works for Fargo Public Schools as a Middle School ELA Facilitator and Gifted Services Facilitator. Her passion is developing literacy skills in students and literacy instruction methods for teachers. She lives in Fargo with her husband a pack of dogs.
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Email: renschk@fargo.k12.nd.us
C3WP Facilitator:
Lisa Gusewelle
Lisa Gusewelle is an elementary teacher at Center-Stanton Public Schools and has been involved with the Red River Valley Writing Project since 2016.
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Email: lisa.Gusewelle@k12.nd.us