Carol Ann Davis
Carol Ann Davis, Professor of English, Fairfield University, is a poet and essayist who uses the teaching of poetry to sustain community among those affected by sudden and systemic violence.  This work includes founding literary outreach organizations serving Charleston, SC, and Newtown, CT, and other locations; an essay collection, to be published in early 2019, recounts her experience raising two children in Sandy Hook, CT, in the aftermath of the 2012 shooting there. Carol Ann is an NEA Fellow in Poetry and a finalist for a National Magazine Award in Essays and Criticism, and the author of the poetry collections Psalm (2007) and Atlas Hour (2011). In addition to teaching and writing, she serves Fairfield as Director of Curriculum Development for the Center of Academic Excellence, coordinator of the undergraduate creative writing program, and faculty member in Fairfield’s MFA Program in Creative Writing.  The workshop she presents at NERCOMP is the result of collaborations with other directors of CAE, and her observations over twenty years about how to best approach student learning especially given the heightened and anxious environment in which we now are asked to teach.

Joshua Elliott
Dr. Joshua Elliott is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Educational Technology program at Fairfield University. Dr. Elliott has spoken at national and regional conferences, and is a Google and Apple Certified Educator. He runs frequent professional development workshops structured to provide teachers with strategies for effective technology integration. Dr. Elliott’s research and teaching goal is to help teachers improve their ability to incorporate technology into their teaching for optimal student learning.

Michael Hilborn
Michael Hilborn is the Associate Director of Academic Platforms and Development within Harvard University Information Technology. For nearly a decade, he has managed software engineering teams who develop pedagogical and administrative applications and services for teaching and learning. He has an extensive interest in how games and gaming can enhance the teaching and learning experience, and has a passion for playing and (sometimes) creating old-school text adventures.

Chris Madden

Christopher Madden has a B.A. in English from the University of Wisconsin and received his MFA in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. He is an adjunct instructor of English at Fairfield University where he uses technology and the digital humanities to vivify writing for his rhetoric and composition students. He has been a featured panelist at the UCONN First Year Writing Conference, including the 2016 panel “Fostering Digital Agency in First-Year Writing Student.” He is a founding partner and editor at Woodhall Press, whose publications include the forthcoming Alice's Adventure's in #Wonderland, an update of Alice for a digital world.

Silvia Marsans-Sakly
Silvia Marsans-Sakly joined Fairfield as an Assistant Professor of the Islamic World in 2013. She received her BA in Behavioral Sciences from the University of Chicago. After graduation she joined the US Peace Corps and served three years in Tunisia, igniting what was to become a lifelong passion for the peoples, cultures, and history of North Africa, the Middle East, and the Islamic World. She earned her MA from New York University in Near East Studies and Journalism and then went on to earn her PhD in the joint program of Middle East and Islamic Studies and European History also from NYU, where she worked on state - society relations,  social movements, and the politics of historical memory in post-colonial societies.  She  has published articles on the 2011 Tunisian Revolution and Orientalism in Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo" and is finishing a book project based on her dissertation, entitled "Power, Protest, and Memory in Tunisia, 1864-2011" for which she was awarded a national Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship for 2017-2018. Dr. Marsans-Sakly has been the recipient of numerous grants including Fulbright, Foreign Languages and Area Studies (FLAS) , American Institute of Maghribi Studies, and Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) and has published peer-reviewed bibliographic essays on Tunisia and Libya for Oxford University Press. She is also interested in cultural studies, the concept of entangled histories, and is preparing a book on the cultural history of the fez as a marker of modern identity across the Muslim world. Constantly experimenting with teaching materials, methods and technology, she teaches to inspire commitment and curiosity in her students.

Linda Roney
Dr. Linda Roney is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Undergraduate Nursing Program in the EGAN School of Nursing and Health Studies.  Dr. Roney graduated with her BSN from Villanova University and both her MSN and Doctorate of Education in Nursing Education from Southern Connecticut State University and teaches in both the graduate and undergraduate program at the EGAN School. She is certified as a Pediatric Nurse, Pediatric Emergency Nurse and Academic Nurse Educator and has over 20 years of clinical, leadership and administrative experience at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital.  Dr. Roney has received awards such as Nurse of the Year, the Nightingale Award for Clinical Excellence, and the Connecticut Emergency Nurses Association Educator of the Year Award. Dr. Roney is the chair of the Pediatric Committee for the Society of Trauma Nurses, a member of the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma, and a member of the Emergency Nurses Association's (ENA) Institute for Emergency Nursing Education (IENE) Advisory Council.

Dr. Roney continues her pediatric nursing practice at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital. She has been involved in research and policy development on the state and national levels focused on injury prevention in children.

Jay Rozgonyi
Jay Rozgonyi is the Associate Vice Provost for Innovation & Effectiveness and the Director of Learning Technologies at Fairfield University, as well as a faculty member in the Educational Technology program.  He holds a Master of Library & Information Science degree from Southern Connecticut State University and a Master of Arts in History from Trinity College.  A frequent presenter at EDUCAUSE, NERCOMP, and Dreamforce workshops and conferences, Jay was also named one of 2015’s Top 30 Technologists, Transformers, & Trailblazers by the Center for Digital Education; is a 2018 finalist for Constellation Research's  SuperNova Award in the category of Future of Work, Employee Experience; and the author of Preston Sturges's Vision of America (McFarland & Co., 1995 and 2014).

Steven Watson
Steven Watson is an Adobe Customer Success Manager, and has been at Adobe Systems for over 7 years.  His role is to help institutions maximize the student learning and engagement experience with Adobe software.

Debbie Whaley
Debbie Whalley is the Manager of Academic Computing in Information Technology Services at Fairfield University. In that roll she leads a team that supports the adoption and integration of innovative technologies by faculty for use in their teaching (both face-to-face and online) and research. Some of the initiatives that Debbie has played a major roll in are adopting Zoom for conferencing, office hours and online course content; iPads for all full-time faculty and simplified classroom AV with AppleTVs in all general use classrooms for easy projection; and Quip for collaborative writing and group work.