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Coordinator
Brandy Parris, Coordinator of Writing and Academic Support, has a Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Washington and an M.S. in Library Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has been teaching writing and working in the field of academic support since 1990; she has a special interest in dissertation coaching and helping students improve their research skills.
Graduate Assistants
Elizabeth Amaro is an Art Therapy Graduate student who merges the arts with writing through the Academic Support Lab. She works behind the scenes to promote faculty events and classes. In the midst of writing academic papers, she loves creating short stories and poetry.
Cyn Clarfield is a Psy.D. student with a background in the Humanities. She respects formal academic writing and has been known to work through the wee hours of the morning constructing the perfect thesis statement. She has effectively turned the “all-nighter” into a journey of madness and self-discovery. Cyn enjoys working with peers on organization and conventions in essay writing and development. She also likes pizza, neck-ties, the Smiths, her cat, Tybalt, and esoteria. She divides her time between Belltown and Capitol Hill.
Adrian Garcia is a Psy.D. and Art Therapy student who practices a lot of self care in order to make it through the arduous process of receiving a dual degree. Adrian enjoys creating outlines and formulating theses although he is always happy to work on any part of the writing process. He has an undergraduate degree from UW which focused on APA and academic writing, giving him the upper hand in the battle against citation errors and arbitrary formatting. Other interests include finding the perfect energy drink, Dubstep and Balkan music, mixing bright colors together, and eating food ... preferably lots of it.
John Hetherington is a student of Organizational Psychology from Oklahoma. He enjoys helping students discover a thesis, flesh out their ideas, and identify new writing strategies. John plays bass and spends an inordinate amount of time in coffee shops where he reads philosophy, classical literature, and world religions.
Jon Stevens is a Florida transplant and a graduate student in Ecopsychology. He is in love with old and out-of-print books and enjoys tracing the evolution of the English language. While not in the lab, Jon can often be found wandering the parks of Seattle, paying perhaps too much attention to the motions of birds.
Cinda Weber is a graduate student in Psychology with a wildly diverse educational background, from Zoology to Landscape Architecture to Sufi healing practice. She likes helping students identify where they stuck in their writing and discover new strategies to get back into a flow. She has experience working with ESL and returning students. Cinda lives, writes, and dreams in Ballard where she can be seen prowling the Farmer’s Market for her favorite apples.
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