Jessica Egan
Jessica has worked at the intersection of teaching and technology for over ten years. With two degrees heavily focused on curriculum and instruction from Florida State University, she began her career as an ESL instructor and was quickly drawn to data-driven course design and ways instructional technology can enhance teaching and learning. She currently teaches English composition courses (without a textbook!) and serves as the Director of Instructional Design and Faculty Development with The American Women's College at Bay Path University. She has written two OER eBooks and has taught with OER in online, adaptive, hybrid, and face-to-face modalities. She believes OER can bring meaningful change to any classroom.

Michelle McGrath
Michelle earned her graduate degree in Professional Counseling and began her career working as a licensed clinical mental health counselor.  Her roles in higher education have included university counselor, academic advisor, and adjunct faculty member.  Having worked in both a traditional and online undergraduate program, Michelle is able to apply her broad experience to enhancing the American Women’s College psychology program both online and on-ground. In her role, Michelle oversees 6 different degree programs and a total of 41 courses.  Fifteen of these courses are currently using fully OER materials.  She recently developed an OER textbook through Pressbooks for her Theories of Personality course.    

Emily Thompson
Emily Thompson began her teaching career in 2012 with the English Department at Northern Virginia Community College. This formative experience instilled a passion for equity-minded pedagogical practices that make higher education as accessible as possible to all learner populations. Emily carried this passion for equity and accessibility with her when she joined The American Women's College as an Academic Director in 2016 and strives to apply a student-centered mindset to every aspect of her academic programs. Emily holds an MA in English Literature from George Mason University and is a Ph.D. Candidate at UMass Amherst, specializing in English Renaissance drama and theatre history. Her other areas of interest include performance studies, body studies, affect theory, posthumanism, and decolonized pedagogy. She is currently working on her dissertation, which studies the affective encounters between stage and spectator during moments of staged bodily violence in Tudor and Stuart tragedy.