Our Staff
The Clark University Writing Center has a Director and a staff of graduate Writing Consultants who are described below.
Director of the Writing Program and Writing Center
Jennifer Plante
This is Jennifer's eleventh year at Clark University and her fifth year as Director of the Writing Program and Writing Center. During her time at Clark, Jennifer has taught a variety of courses, including Expository Writing, Introduction to Literature, Writing: The Beats (a course that studies texts from Beat Generation writers), and she has taught Continuing Education courses in both literature and film.
Jennifer comes to this position with a lengthy history in the Worcester area. She graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a degree in Humanities; after working as a technical writer in the area, Jennifer decided to pursue a graduate degree in English from Clark University. Since earning her degree, Jennifer has been teaching composition and literature courses at several Worcester area colleges.
Jen also works with local authors, doing freelance editing and creating indexes for scholarly texts.
Graduate Writing Consultants
David Meuser
David Meuser joined The Writing Center in the fall of 2005. He is a graduate student of International Development in the International Development, Community, and Environment program. A graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in Political Science, Dave also maintains a deep affection for fiction, poetry, and philosophical literature. After working and traveling the world for twelve years as a courier with Federal Express, he has returned to graduate study to pursue his interests in issues of global equity and social justice.
Paul Babin
Paul Babin earned his bachelor's degree in English from Wheaton College (MA) in 2007 where he worked as a writing tutor for three years. He is second-year graduate student in English at Clark and joined The Writing Center last year. Prior to enrolling at Clark, Paul worked as a reporter for Gatehouse Media New England's Cape Cod news division.
Cassie DeFillipo
Cassie is a second year M.A. student in the International Development and Social Change program of the IDCE Department. She has worked as a writer, copy editor, and photographer for various newspapers and magazines. She has also worked as an English tutor and teacher, especially for international students of all age ranges and levels. Her most recent projects include volunteering for a year in Ghana with community development projects and serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer in Lewiston, Maine, where she coordinated after-school and parental education programs for Somali and Somali-Bantu refugees and immigrants at a low-income housing development. She holds a B.A. in journalism with a minor in business from the University of Oregon Honors College.
Sara Brown
Sara Brown is in her first year of a Ph.D. program at the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Sara's most recent position was at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel where she worked as a research and teaching assistant. Stateside, Sara worked for a refugee resettlement agency in the Dallas metroplex and taught ESL and Civics to newly resettled refugees. Prior to that, she worked as a project coordinator in refugee camps in western Tanzania. She is a proud Clarkie, having graduated with honors a long, long, long time ago.
Anna Yatskevich
Anna Yatskevich is a second year graduate student of International Development and Social Change in the International Development, Community and Environment Program. Anna graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Purchase College where she worked as a writing tutor and teaching assistant. Born in Far East Russia, Anna subsequently lived in Egypt, Syria, Belarus and Hungary, and over the years she developed a deep passion for travelling and photography. She interned at the Foundation Center in New York City over the summer where she did research on the water crisis. Her current research focuses on water crisis and sustainability in the rapidly changing global economy as well as the possibilities of using GIS for development work.