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EDITOR TEAM
Amber Chavez (she/they), M.S.
Amber’s scholarly interest in reproductive justice comes from her experience as a reproductive body. As a mother, community organizer, and former Kindergarten teacher, her work in reproductive justice focuses on safe and sustainable communities especially birth justice and access to early childhood care and education. Her work is grounded in cultural rhetorics, frameworks of caring, and addressing experience and outcome disparities in birthwork and early childhood care and education. Amber is co-founder of the Milwaukee Childcare Collective, a volunteer-based group offering childcare services to parents involved in social justice work, a project fellow on the UWM Mapping Racism and Resistance project, and a community engagement project coordinator for the African American Breastfeeding Network and the Medical College of Wisconsin. Amber holds an MS in Cultural Foundations of Community Engagement and Education and is in the second-year of her PhD program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she studies Public Rhetorics and Community Engagement.
Elizabeth Bolton (she/her), M.F.A.
Elizabeth holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where she is an adjunct professor of creative writing and composition. Her creative nonfiction essays have been published in Puerto del Sol, River Styx, The Forge, West Branch, The Dodge, Barren, and wildness, among others, and her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and The Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. Her writing about online teaching/learning has been featured in Feminist Pedagogy for Online Teaching, her critical essay, “‘What Greater Grief?’ Trauma Theory and The Rules Do Not Apply” was recently published in Unmasking (New) Maternal Realities from Palgrave Macmillan, and her critical essay, “‘A Productive and Fructifying Pain:’ Fraught Depictions of Girlhood, Womanhood, and Motherhood in The Bluest Eye and Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre” is forthcoming in Critical Insights: The Bluest Eye from Salem Press.
Rachel La Due (she/her), M.A.
Rachel holds an M.A. in Public Rhetorics and Community Engagement from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and is a former middle school English teacher. After several years of working for a public charter school, she recognized that her school had never taught sex education. She took on advocating for an inclusive curriculum to be taught schoolwide, and she ended up teaching middle schoolers sex education herself. This experience has influenced her work, which focuses on the rhetoric of “choice” in public discourse and legal texts around sex education and school choice programs. She is also interested in labor organizing and youth counterpublic efforts.
Tara Knight (she/they), M.A., M.S.
Tara is a PhD student in Public Rhetorics and Community Engagement at UW-Milwaukee. As a childbearing person who experienced chronic low milk supply, her research focuses on infant feeding rhetorics and breastfeeding challenges, both intrinsic and extrinsic. She examines the ways in which the narrow parameters of breastfeeding used in public health guidance and breastfeeding research stigmatize diverse feeding practices and perpetuate deficit narratives about childbearing people who cannot breastfeed exclusively, disproportionately affecting marginalized and racialized communities. Tara has worked with the Fed is Best Foundation and the Low Milk Supply Foundation and teaches English and writing classes at UW-Milwaukee. She has been published in the Journal of Basic Writing (43.2) and on the Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online blog.
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