Kathleen Hicks is Director of Online Programs, Department of English. Her expertise is online education and American lit. She is associate editor for Steinbeck Review and President of the International Steinbeck Society.

Jazzy Quick is a longtime marketing consultant, writer, and educator, who now teaches students to analyze brands and their digital audiences.

Horacio Velasquez enjoys the pleasure of teaching and the satisfaction of delivering productions through Film & Media complex Post-Production Workflows. "Education using tech to help culture to heal the soul" as he says.

María Isabel Álvarez holds an MFA in Creative Writing and a BA in English Literature from Arizona State University. She supports the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory as Senior Communications Specialist.

Erin Stalcup has published 3 books. She’s edited Defunct, Waxwing, and Hunger Mountain, and she’s taught in community colleges, universities, liberal arts schools, prisons, state schools, MFA programs, and online.