Albright College Writing Center tutors Blake Reed, Ginger Hill, Jenifer Lopez and Kaela O’Neill are ready for the MAWCA conference at with big smiles, even after a two-hour, early morning drive to Towson University. 
Writing center tutors and directors make their way to Towson’s liberal arts building for sessions after a keynote address on the conference’s theme of decolonizing writing center practices. 
Ginger Hill explains the background of one session that features a banana duct taped to the wall (“Comedian” Maurizio Cattelan, 2019 ), as the rest of the Albright tutors decide which sessions they’d like to attend. 
Ginger Hill, Blake Reed and Kaela O’Neill prepare to take notes on a session about how writing centers function as a space where different academic disciplines can come together. 
Tutors and directors from different writing centers mingle and share ideas as the conference breaks for lunch. 
A table with correspondence and publications on writing centers, such as the green WLN: A Journal of Writing Center Scholarship. 
Blake Reed and Ginger Hill peruse the program to decide what session to attend after finishing their lunch. 
Albright College Writing Center Director Rachel Liberatore scans the program to see what sessions are available before the panel the Albright tutors will present. 
The Albright College Writing Center tutors listen to instructions and insight from their director as they prepare before their panel discussion on identity in writing center tutoring. 
Director Rachel Liberatore looks on with a smile as her tutors plan and prepare for their identity in writing centers panel, sharing aspects of their identities that assist them in their tutoring. 
After a long, but successful and insightful day, the Albright College Writing Center tutors board their college’s van back to campus.
The Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association 2020 Conference was held from March 6-7 at Towson Univeristy in Towson, Maryland.
This year’s conference theme was Decolonizing Writing Center Practice: A New Vision for a New Decade. Writing center personnel from the region came out to give workshops, panels, discussions, and presentations on how writing centers should change traditional practices to make sure all students are included and heard in their writing. A full program of the conference can be found here.
The Albright College Writing Center presented a panel on how they use their identities to connect with their tutees and their identities, and how they can continue to make their center an open place for allowing different identities to flourish.
Deborah Afolabi 
Your cutlines are generally effective (mind if I use these as an example for the class?) Minor revisions before Friday: I’d recommend adding a link to MAWCA’s site and a couple sentences about the organization. What date was the conference held? Where is Towson? Also, your next-to-last pic and the one with the table/brochures might benefit from cropping (IF you can do that without losing resolution.) Great work!
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Thank you for the feedback! I will work on the revisions. I also don’t mind if you use my cutlines as examples!
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