Incoming Editorial Team Introduction
We are excited to announce that Young Scholars in Writing will transition to a new home at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in 2025. Their Department of Writing and Language Studies has proven to be a valuable program that creates new opportunities for undergraduate student researchers through collaborative events, showcases, internal publications, and research-rich mentoring work. The team hopes to continue the work and quality established by the York College of Pennsylvania faculty and students while contributing their unique expertise and innovative ideas to the journal. The incoming editorial team will be Crystal Bazaldua, Colin Charlton, Bonnie Garcia, Tomos Guerrero, Marcela Hebbard, Cyndy Lopez Guerrero, and Charles McGregor.
The incoming editors at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley have a vision for the journal that is inclusive and diverse. They aim to provide a research, language, and media-rich forum for young scholars in writing, with a continued focus on mentoring students at each phase of the submission and feedback process. Their priority is to engage undergraduate writing scholars as contributors, producing highly engaging, timely, and replicable research. They also aim to engage young writers and established writing studies faculty to integrate and dialogue with student researchers, creating a space where everyone's voice is heard and valued.
Charles McGregor (He/They), who will serve as the journal’s social media and marketing editor, is excited to make sure first-year students have a voice in what they need from the journal and the direction it could take in the future and is also looking forward to incorporating the work of YSW into their classes. McGregor specifically would like to create an optional assignment opportunity for his students to allow them to take part in running the social media content and advertising for the journal. Bonnie Garcia (She/Her) will coordinate YSW’s peer review process. She shared that she’s particularly excited to work with first-year students during the publication process, as she believes involving students in these processes enables them to learn about their writing processes, reflect on them, and make better choices as writers. Marcella Hebbard (she/her/ella) will work closely with Bonnie Garcia as the Multilingual Coordinator. Her role as the Multilingual Coordinator supports the program’s vision to promote inclusivity by integrating a multilingual layer into the journal. Hebbard believes that creating a linguistically diverse space for multilingual undergraduate students is crucial, and her Composition and Applied Linguistics background will benefit the journal.
Tomas Guerrero (he/him) will work on website management and partnership development. He shares the same goals and values for the journal as his colleagues: that Young Scholars in Writing will help create experiences for students to integrate their voice, culture, and rhetorical skills into the academic genres associated with higher education while creating culturally sustainable educational methods. He utilizes the lens of justice to analyze concepts rhetorically in his classes, so he’d like to expand his classes to include the publication process. Cyndy Lopez Guerrero (she/her) will also be a part of the incoming editors of YSW, working with multilingual submissions and coordinating partnership development with writing programs, libraries, and other interested community organizations. Guerrero plans to implement new initiatives promoting social justice and equity in classroom spaces, especially in often marginalized student communities. “I love helping students cultivate confidence in and appreciation for their unique voices,” Guerrero shared, “I think this is another opportunity to continue that work.”
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This post was written by Lee Krauss.
