Meet the Staff

Farnham Writers’ Center

Supporting writers since 1984

Director

Ghada Gherwash, PhD., Director, Farnham Writers’ Center; Assistant Professor of Writing
M.A., Appalachian State University
Ph.D., Purdue University

I am an applied linguist with research interests in the intersectionality of second language writing and writing center theory, linguistic justice, second language acquisition, qualitative research methods, translation, foreign/second language teaching, and language policy. I am also a former Fulbright Scholar.

Pronouns: She/her/hers

Courses:

WD112: Writers’ Workshop
WD113: Conversation Hour for International Students
WD115E: First-Year Writing: Writing Through the Multilingual Lens
WD/EN214: Tutoring Writing in Theory and Practice
WD204: Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Language, Identity, and Power

Tutoring Staff

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: Concord, MA
Major(s): Global Studies
Minor(s): Italian
Interests: Outside of being a tutor, I love hiking, running (when it’s warm out), and skiing (when it’s cold out), and if it’s too cold for anything, I enjoy knitting (I’m currently making a penguin sweater).

Pronouns: he/him/his
Hometown: Wellesley, MA
Major(s): Economics
Minor(s): Data Science
Interests: Football, statistics, economics, music, food

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Hometown: Queens, NY
Major: Psychology and Linguistics
Interests: Hi there! I love crocheting, collecting mugs, and all things blue. Outside the classroom, you might find me stargazing, tossing discs with the ultimate frisbee team, or goofing off with my friends in Colby IVCF. I’m excited to work with you at the FWC!

Pronouns: he/him/his
Hometown: Queens, NY
Major(s): Government
Interests: Mock Trial, Politics, Computers, Video Games, and a little bit of everything!

Pronouns: He/him/his
Hometown: North Brunswick, NJ
Major(s): Philosophy, Physics
Interests: I am an avid spikeballer, and enjoy playing club soccer and frisbee as well. I love to read books, though I often struggle to keep up with my ever-growing reading list!

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: Rockville, MD
Major(s): Anthropology, East Asian Studies
Interests: Climbing anything that resembles a rock, reading unreasonable amounts of fan fiction, and subsisting almost entirely on Spa Smartfood.

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: Roanoke, VA
Major(s): English, Art History
Interests: Listening to too much music (of the indie variety), creating nail art (sporadically), copyediting for the Echo (yes I read every article), doing crosswords (the free kind), and drinking iced maple lattes (Mary Low)!

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Major(s): English, Visual Arts
Interests: Reading, writing, going to the beach, drawing, painting, eating

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Major(s): Government and Economics
Interests: I am a big fan of hiking in Norcal, painting, skiing, and rock music. I’m also a student executive at the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and love talking about pretty much anything!

Pronouns: She/they
Hometown: Chisinau, Moldova
Major(s): Philosophy and Government
Interests: In my free time, you can find me playing the piano in Bixler, reading or watching a rom-com full of clichés.

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Hometown: Littleton, CO
Major(s): Astrophysics and English
Interests: I really enjoy competitive jump roping, hiking, listening to oodles of music, reading, working at my local mountain ropes course in the summer, and recording silly lil cassettes on my silly lil tape deck.

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Hometown: Orange County, CA
Major(s): English and Spanish
Interests: Running and Dance

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Hometown: Standish, ME
Major(s): Science, Technology, and Society
Interests: The beach, ice cream, a good book, movies, and the outdoors!

Pronouns: he/him
Hometown: Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey
Major(s): Computer Science: AI, English: Creative Writing
Minor(s): Mathematics

Interests: I love listening to music, especially from random CDs I get at thrift shops. I be writing sometimes, I spend more time coming up with ideas tho. I enjoy national parks, they look nice and pretty. Shoutout my Mom!!

Pronouns: he/him/his
Hometown: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Major: Economics with a Concentration in Financial Markets
Minor: Computer Science
Interests: I love playing rugby, soccer, and folding origami. Will also take any opportunity to skip rocks and am a self-proclaimed sandwich connoisseur.

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Major: Biology with a concentration in Neuroscience and Psychology
Interests: Sports, Criminology, Working out, and All Things Nature

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: Manchester, NH
Major(s): English with Literature and the Environment
Minor(s): Environmental Studies
Interests: While most of my time is spent writing papers, I do manage to squeeze some in to read, play volleyball, do yoga, and sing. I also love to watch horror movies and hang out with friends!

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Hometown: Wasilla, AK
Major(s): Biology with a concentration in Neuroscience, Environmental Science with a focus in Public Health
Interests: I love singing, listening to, and playing music with friends. I am also passionate about environmental advocacy and sustainable practices in my life and the Colby Community.

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: Bethesda, MD
Major(s): English: Creative Writing, Anthropology
Interests: Reading, writing, cereal, dogs, and watching various crime TV shows

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Hometown: Newton, MA
Major(s): History, Philosophy
Interests: Colby’s AI program, baking movies, and music

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Hometown: Tampa, FL
Major(s): Environmental Policy and Psychology
Minor(s): Economics
Interests: I typically spend my free time hiking, in the pottery studio, or at the gym. I also love to spend a lot of my time with my soccer teammates!

Pronouns: she/her
Hometown: Reading, MA
Major: English, Studio Art
Interests: When I’m not at the FWC, I’m hiking with the COC or I’m in Bixler!

Pronouns: He/him/his
Hometown: Chiang Mai, Thailand
Major(s): Computer Science and Economics
Interests: At Colby, I play on the Men’s Club Volleyball team and am a member of Mayflower Hill Capital. On my own time, I love reading fantasy and sci-fi books, watching movies, and listening to music!

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Major(s): Government/Global Studies
Interests: hiking, listening to music, crocheting, reading fiction, dogs!

Pronouns: he/him/his
Hometown: Chadds Ford, PA
Major(s): Philosophy, English
Interests: Aside from academics, I enjoy reading fiction, cooking, and watching old movies. I also love thrifting and spending hours on Ebay looking for vintage clothes.

Pronouns: she/her/hers
Hometown: Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ
Major(s): English (Creative Writing/Literature and the Environment)
Minor(s): Environmental Studies
Interests: Hello! I love reading, writing, running, and being outdoors. On campus you can catch me playing ultimate frisbee or sipping a chai at Mary Low.

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: South Berwick, ME
Major(s): Computer Science and Music
Interests: Find me sitting under a tree reading James Baldwin, writing bad poetry for no one, practicing piano late at night in Bixler, or petting the owner’s cat at Sheafe Street Books in Portsmouth, NH.

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: Acton, MA
Major(s): History and Economics
Interests: I love skiing at Sunday River, playing with my dog, and going for drives with my friends. One of my favorite activities at Colby is being a CCAK mentor

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: New York, NY
Major(s): Studio Art and Computer Science
Interests: Nature, hiking, music, art, and animals!

Pronouns: she/her
Hometown: Loganton, PA
Major: Biology with a concentration in ecology and evolution
Interests: I love running, reading, hiking, kayaking, listening to music, and exploring new places!

Pronouns: They/Them/Theirs
Hometown: St. Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago
Majors: Creative Writing, Psychology (Neuroscience)
Interests: I tend to spend a fair amount of my free time reading and writing, but I also love watching anime and listening to music. There’s crocheting too, but I
always seem to be running out of yarn…

Pronouns: she/her
Major(s): Education major with an English minor
Interests: I hope to go on to teach high school English and share my love of
reading! My favorite things to do are read fiction/fantasy, listen to music, and
spend time outdoors.

Pronouns: She/Her
Hometown: Winchester, MA
Majors: Global Studies and Government
Interests: I love skiing, running, reading, knitting, and playing club soccer. I also love hammocking and exploring Maine with my friends!

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: Silver Spring, Maryland
Interests: I love spending time outdoors in Colby’s arboretum and nature around
the state. I like to spend my time reading, hammocking, hiking, making art and
traveling when/where I am able! I also speak German!!

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: Lexington, MA
Major(s): Economics, Global Studies
Interests: I love to ski, run, hike, listen to music, and read!

Pronouns: He/him/his
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Major(s): Economics
Minor(s): Creative Writing
Interests: Hiking, biking, and surfing. I’m a captain on the Colby Men’s Track and
Field team, and I spend my free time at the beach, reading non-fiction, and writing
fiction. I love live music, walking around art museums, and going to sports games.

Pronouns: He/him/his
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Major: Economics, Government
Interests: Hiking, traveling, playing sports, and reading foreign policy.

Pronouns: she/ they
Major: Studio Art with a concentration in photography
Minor(s): Cinema Studies and English
Interests: Heyyyy! I love all things film, and usually spend my free time making
montages with any footage I collect. I also enjoy playing rugby and soccer with my
friends, or catching up over coffee in Marylow.

Pronouns: He/Him
Hometown: Hampden Maine
Majors: English and Music
Interests: I’m very involved with anything musical on campus, and you can often
find me in the CMI or a Gordon Center practice room. You can spot me crushing a
chicken sandwich in the spa, up far too late in Miller, or running off campus.

Hometown: New York City
Major: Psychology
Minor: Science, Technology, and Society
Interests: I love volleyball, baking, basically anything arts and craftsy, and I have
a special interest in sports psychology!

Hometown: Long Lake, MN
Major: English
Minors: Anthropology, Religious Studies
Interests: Reading, Cooking, Travel, and Music

Pronouns: He/Him/His
Hometown: Edina, MN
Majors: Psychology, Environmental Policy
Minor: Cinema Studies
Interests: When I’m not helping out with the FWC I’m running or creating my
own NYT Connections puzzles! I also might be whipping something up in
Photoshop(look out for the SPB posters!) or playing a board game with friends;
my favorites are Chinatown and Mafia-type games.

Pronouns: She/her/hers
Hometown: Bedminster, NJ
Major: Economics with a concentration in finance
Minor: English
Interests: I love to ski, read, make art, and be in nature. I am fluent in Nepali.

Meet the Staff

Farnham Writers’ Center

Director

Tutoring Staff

Catrin Carey ’25 (Head Tutor: Community Outreach)

Duke Ferrara ’25 (Head Tutor: Writing Fellows Coordinator)

Stacy Kim ’25 (Head Tutor: General Operations)

Dev Purohit ’25 (Head Tutor: Scheduling)

Aarav Hathiramani ’26

Asha Butterworth ’25

Aubrey Adkins ’25

Audrey Loo ’25

Audrey Mullen ’26 (Off Campus)

Cristina Panaguta ’26 (Off Campus)

Emily Flanders ’25

Emily Jeon ’25

Gretchen Biegel ’25

Said Castro-solano ’27

Joshua Varghese ’25

Kara Xu ’25

Kiara McCellon ’26

Lily Hyce ’25

Mairead Levitt ’25

Malia Sung ’25

Mic Cosgriff ’25

Nancy O’Brien ’25

Narit Trikasemsak ’25

Olivia Mundy ’25

Rohan Sajja ’26

Sara Holden ’26 (Off Campus)

Sarah Byrne ’25

Sydney Pascal ’26 (Off Campus)

Vivian Hu ’26 (Off Campus)

Abbey Wolfe ’27

Ash De Curre ’27

Deviyani Patel ’25

Grace Preston ’27

Mollie Block ’27

Julia Littlewood ’27

Ren Zanze ’25

Darin Gildea ’27

Randi Radcliffe ’27

Owen Field ’27

Lj Grant ’26 (Off Campus)

Eleanor Kingsley ’27

Hunter Mawn ’27

Anusha Thapa ’27