They are Joan Hirt, a professor of educational leadership at Virginia Tech, Laurel Jones, president of Cabrillo College in California, Dian Fox, a professor of Hispanic studies at Brandeis University, Milla Cozart Riggio, a professor of English at Trinity College in Connecticut, and Gloria Cordes Larson, president of Bentley University.
Heather A. Slomski held the Axton Fellowship in Fiction at the University of Louisville and taught English at Concordia College and Kathleen Founds in an instructor in English at Cabrillo College in Watsonville, California.
