Author: Chen Chen

Introduction As a response to the fast spread of the novel coronavirus in China, the lockdown quickly implemented in Wuhan on Jan 23 had many ripple effects. Women medical professionals and their needs were especially not heeded even when various medical relief efforts coming from all over China rushed to the epicenter. LIANG Yu (NOTE: I capitalize LIANG here to emphasize it’s her last name. I will use “Liang” later. Her Weibo handle is her Chinese name and English name combined: @粱钰 stacey), is a philanthropist who organized the project “Stand by Her” (姐妹战疫安心行动) to coordinate donation, procurement, and distribution…

Presenters Travis Webster, University of Houston-Clear Lake Chanon Adsanatham, University of Maryland-College Park Bre Garrett, University of West Florida Review In this panel, Travis Webster, Chanon Adsanatham, and Bre Garrett shared with us three different perspectives on minority professionals in rhetoric and composition through lenses of mobility, intersectionality, and embodiment as they navigate their professional lives. Webster and Adsanatham conducted empirical research and shared narratives by participants such as LGBTQ Writing Center Administrators and Asian/Asian American graduate students who were marginalized in their institutional and professional contexts. Garrett discussed her own struggle of balancing the life of a WPA and…