Dr. Cheryl Hogue Smith

Cheryl Hogue Smith is a Professor of English and the Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum Certification Coordinator at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY. She is a Past Chair of the Two-Year College English Association (TYCA) and a Fellow of the National Writing Project. Her work about teaching appears in TETYC, JBW, JAAL, English Journal, JTW, and Pedagogy and in several edited collections.

Dr. Dominique Zino

Dominique Zino is professor of English at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY), where she served as co-director of the writing program from 2019-2025. Her scholarship has been published in Teaching English in the Two-Year College, WPA: Writing Program Administration, The WAC Journal and multiple edited collections. She is co-editor of the Journal of Basic Writing (JBW). Dominique is the recipient of a 2024 CCCC Research Initiative grant for "The Ties that Bind: Understanding the Social Connections that Shape a Campus’s Writing Culture," a project developed with her colleague, Dr. Maria Jerskey. This research project asks students to chart the impact of their social connections on their sense of well-being during the lifecycle of a writing assignment, emphasizing the social components of writing to prompt revisions of programmatic policies, assessment practices, and writing cultures at two-year colleges. 

Dr. Barbara Gleason

Barbara Gleason is Professor and Director of the MA in Language and Literacy at The City College of New York, where she formerly served as Director of Composition. She is a current member of the Council of Basic Writing Executive Committee, former Editor of Basic Writing e-Journal, and founder of the CCNY Center for Worker Education Writing Center. Her publications focus on basic writing, curriculum development, program evaluation, adult learners, and graduate education. Barbara has published four books, including Basic Writing in the 21st Century (co-edited with Laura Gray-Rosendale and forthcoming from Peter Lang in 2025).

Dr. Charissa Che

Dr. Charissa Che is an Assistant Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY. She previously taught at Queensborough Community College, CUNY. Her research focuses on cultural rhetorics and translingual writing pedagogy. Charissa previously served as the Program Chair of the 2022 TYCA National Conference. Currently, she is the Associate Chair of TYCA National, Associate Editor of the Journal of Basic Writing, and the Book Review Editor of Teaching English at the Two-Year College. She is the journal's incoming co-editor.

Dr. Hope Parisi

Dr. Hope Parisi is Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, where she has focused on teaching basic writing and first-year writing.  Her over fifteen-year affiliation with the Journal of Basic Writing, as both an associate and co-editor, has shaped her perspective and scholarship on teaching the most worthy of students.  Since 2018, she has been Faculty Mentor for her English Department. She has published in New Directions in Community Colleges, Teaching English in the Two-Year College, Journal of Developmental Education, Open Words: Access and English Studies, and  Journal of Basic Writing, and has articles in edited collections. She is a recipient of The Mark Reynolds TETYC Best Article Award. Current research interests include Universal Design for Learning, the literature of welcome and belonging, and all things basic writing.