Documentation:Graduate Student Children’s Literature Conference 2012/Volunteer List
Volunteer List by Faculty
MACL
Rob Bittner: co-chair. Graduating this year, so next year’s plans are a little unclear. Has lots of contacts, so will be able to email keynote speakers and get calls out to several mailing lists, universities etc.
Laura Quintana Crelis: general help, children’s literature in Spanish/from Mexico.
Saeyong Kim: general help
Lara LeMoal: not present
Phobe Li: not present
Stacey Matson: co-chair. Experience organizing conferences. Interested in integrating the CRWR folks more into the conference.
Karen Taylor (worked on the 2010): not actively participating in this conference, but good for information and feedback, and may be able to lend a hand (physically) sometimes. Will take care of the Paypal stuff (links etc) for us. Thanks!
Kay Weisman (worked on the 2010): busy with thesis, but may have some more free time in term 2. Will be happy to give help through email. Thanks!
Thea Wilson-Scorgie: lives out of the city; being physically far away, prefers remote help such as website or communications. Not possible to be present for the setup (first week).
MFA (CRWR)
Rebecca Hales: not present
MLIS or JOINT MLIS/MAS
Rachel Balko: co-chair. much experience with communications (writing letters to department head, applying for grant etc.)
Anita Lok Yan Chan: general help, interested in doing the catering with Kathie Shoemaker. At the moment, working at VPL – may be helpful in terms of VPL contacts.
Dan Gillean: not present – “unavailable in summer, but back in September”
Katie Kinsley: good at organization, some experience with conference coordination. Can work with accounts and budgets. Alice MacGougan: not present
Megan Sorenson: not present – “not available until end of August/would like to contribute by distance until then”
Justin Unrau: not present – “in Australia until January/help long distance…would be to run a wiki or blog to keep track of the planning as it goes along…” (note: Ellen recommended Justin as the A/V person for the day)
Ellen Wu (worked on the 2010): probably busy, as has 3-4 courses lined up, but will be happy to be on-call help. Thanks!
LANGUAGE AND LITERACY EDUCATION
Magdalena Vergara: general help, contact with the LLED grad students
Kathie Shoemaker: not present, dissertation coming up. “also co-chair of the Vancouver Children’s Literature Roundtable. Kathie has offered to do the décor and the food as she has in past years – but may be more of a guide and consultant depending on her dissertation.”
FACULTY CONTACTS
SLAIS – Judi Saltman
LLED – Margot Filipenko