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Genna Eberhard is a graduate of Music Education with a Writing minor. She is a fifth-year student working toward becoming an educator. When she is not picking up random instruments or plunging the depths of her Spotify album horde, she is plotting her escape to Iceland to pursue her calling as a nomadic shepherdess. Music and words have proved lifelong friends for Genna and she believes they are unique media to steward the gifts of space and time. Words give shape to the shapeless, forming our souls in the process (She is also a rather melodramatic poet, if you could not tell). She looks forward to shaping meaning with you and perhaps assailing you with song recommendations from time to time.

Areas of Study: Music, Writing

Avala Elwood is studying Political Science.  And yes, it is as cool as the spy movies make it seem . . . even though she has not had the chance to run after a bad guy in her heels yet.  Her bucket list includes multiple adventures that have to do with eating food in their namesake places: Boston Clam Chowder in Boston, Belgian Waffles in Belgium, and French Toast in France.  She will take anything with character and story over picture-perfect because Folgers campfire coffee always tastes better than a fancy latte, and that includes your writing. She is passionate about helping you map out and sift through seemingly foggy ideas until they are eloquently and concisely stated on paper. In other words, she enjoys the writing process!  She promises that she will make your grammar better than Yoda’s: writing, she does love. 

Areas of Study: Political Science

Alexandra Lo (Xandra) is a Psychology major on a mission to become functionally fluent in at least ten languages. Her life consists of telling tales and consuming them. She suspects that yours does too. Whether it’s filming the ������ú women’s soccer team as they score the winning goal, or painting a portrait of a polka-dancing pair; whether it’s telling the story of the God who makes us whole, or typing up a novel until her fingertips are bare–she knows stories help us understand one another. While she loves poetic language, she also finds great value in concision and clarity. She wants to help you use your words wisely so that others can understand the precious things you have to say. If you would like to hear about her favorite use for words, ask her about the novel she is writing.

Area of Study: Psychology

Evelyn Rose is studying English, Education, and Religious Studies. She grew up in a small mountain town in Colorado, where she learned two things: how to find her way out of the woods (eventually) and how to appreciate the beauty of the messy in-between. Whether she’s photosynthesizing in the sunshine, watercolor painting at the beach, or adding yet another craft to her Pinterest board, Evelyn finds joy in creating, and she loves to walk alongside students as they shape their own ideas into vibrant expression. To her, writing isn’t about creating the perfect first draft (spoiler alert: they don’t exist) but instead an empowering journey to find your voice, share your story, and maybe even have some fun.

Areas of Study: English, Education, Religious Studies

While Paula Almudena Winkler draws a blank anytime someone asks her for a fun fact, it is quite unique that her middle name harks back to the patron saint of Madrid, Spain. When she isn’t fervently studying her myriad of interests she calls “majors” and “minors,” she is probably completing a new random goal that she has convinced herself is absolutely necessary in the real world, such as embroidering Converse or learning to drive stick shift. As for writing, Paula is fascinated by the precision of language, namely the specificity of her native tongue, German (for example, Treppenwitz, literally ‘stair joke’, what you think to say to someone as soon as the conversation is over) and the simultaneous vagueness of Spanish (ahorita, anyone?). Stop by to chat about the guinea pig life of an oldest child, why you should study abroad (in Mexico!) or how you can overcome writer’s block and figure out the grammar rules you lost sometime between fifth grade and now.

Areas of Study: Political Science, Spanish, Religious Studies