VOICES IN EDUCATION Vol. 3, August 2013

About the Authors

JISELLE ALLEYNE is a professional Librarian with experience in Reference Services, Information Literacy, Adult Education, Library Management, Leadership and Team Development. She has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of the West Indies and Master’s from both Dalhousie and Guelph universities. Jiselle is currently pursuing a PhD at .

JAMIE BACON received her doctorate in Biology from Boston University. She is the Education Officer for the Zoological Society and the principal investigator for both the Bermuda Amphibian Project and the Wetlands Remediation Project. She was also a senior lecturer in Biology at the Bermuda College from 1993-2000.

PHYLLIS CURTIS-TWEED, PhD, graduated from Emory University and then pursued postdoctoral training in psychology in the clinical research training programme in social psychiatry at Harvard. She was a psychology instructor at Harvard Medical School and taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Simmons College and at Harvard-affiliated hospitals. She is a referee for the Journal of Moral Education and executive board member and treasurer of the Association for Moral Education. She has published and presented at national and international conferences on psychology and education. Dr Curtis-Tweed joined the faculty at Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York and served as director of the freshman year programmes, assistant provost for assessment and associate provost. She then joined the staff at Oakland Community Colleges as academic dean. In January 2014, Dr Curtis-Tweed returned to Bermuda and became the seventh principal of . In August 2017, she will join the administrative staff at Bermuda College as Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs.

ROBERT MASTERS was a Manager in the Trust and Estates Industry in Bermuda for 25 years. Because of his interest in research and helping others, he decided in 2007 to go back to university to pursue a Masters’ Degree in Library and Information Science. He has worked at Bermuda College Library since 2008 becoming Reference and Bibliographic Instruction Librarian in 2010 and Library Director in 2012.

CLARENCE MAXWELL, PhD, is presently assistant professor of Caribbean and Latin American History at Millersville University in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. He specialises in topics concerning Bermuda, the Caribbean and Latin American, the African Diaspora, and the history of Atlantic enslavement.

CRAIG SIMMONS, MA, is a senior lecturer in economics at Bermuda College.

YESHA TOWNSEND is a writer from Bermuda. She holds a bachelor’s degree in music composition and is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing from Hamline University in St.Paul, Minnesota. She has served as the mentor and coach for the Bermuda National Youth Poetry Slam Team. She has been published in The Bermudian Magazine and the Bermuda Anthology of Memoir & Creative Non-Fiction. Her writing explores queerness, womanness, blackness, and the Caribbean diasporic experience. She writes of home, of the sea, of hurricanes, of Bermudian history, mythology, and folklore, to which she is entirely indebted.

LYNETTE WOODS, PhD, recently retired as assistant to the president of Bermuda College for special projects. She was one of the driving forces behind the establishment of a journal at Bermuda College. She is currently a member of Bermuda College’s publication committee and co-editor of the journal’s editorial board. She is also a certified trainer in appreciative inquiry, a skill she has used to assist in developing strategic plans for two colleges.

CATHY ZIEPNIEWSKI has a BA (Smith College) and an MA (Tulane University) in English. Her teaching career included 13 years in secondary education and 28 years as an English Lecturer/Tutor at Bermuda College. She served two terms as the Faculty Representative on Bermuda College’s Board of Governors and chaired the Faculty Association. An avid reader, amateur chef, and crossword puzzle fanatic, she is enjoying retirement.

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