Lauren Hammond is the GWC's Coordinator. She recently received her Ph.D. in English here at UC Riverside. Prior to that, Lauren received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature and Writing at California State University, San Marcos, and her Master of Arts degree in English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University (SDSU). 

Gary Qin is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology. Before UCR, he was at the University of Washington, where he worked as a writing consultant and lead tutor at the Odegaard Writing and Research Center and earned his B.S. in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology and B.A. in English Language and Literature. His current research focus is on threats to freshwater species and systems in Mediterranean climate regions, like here in Southern California. In his free time, Gary enjoys trying out new restaurants and cafés, going to the gym, and DJing.

Leah Washburn is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the English Department at UCR. She received her BA in English-Creative Writing from Rhodes College and her MFA in fiction from the University of Central Florida. Her research interests include postmodernism, contemporary fiction, speculative fiction, game studies, media studies, and narrative studies. During graduate studies, she has taught composition and creative writing classes, and during undergraduate work, she worked as a Rhodes College Writing Fellow for 3 years. Leah is a capital-N nerd. She spends free hours reading, writing, and collecting more dice for her games.

Christopher Valencia is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department for the Study of Religion at UC Riverside. He received his B.A. in English from UC Irvine and his M.A. in the Study of Religion from UC Riverside. His research interest focuses on Global Christianity, modern and contemporary Christianity in the U.S. and Latin America, and religion in urban communities. Currently, he works as a TA in the Department for the Study of Religion and helps with courses on religion and history. In his free time, Christopher likes spending time with family and friends, playing music, running, and trying new types of coffee. 

Jennifer Mosley is a second-year PhD student in Psychology, focusing on Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience. Her research interests include socio-cognitive models of self and personal identity, as well as quantitative models of socialcontext and connection. She is currently working as a graduate student researcher on her thesis project which aims to organize and relate autobiographical memories based on self-understanding and personal narratives. In her freetime, Jennifer loves dancing to her favorite music, pushing herself at the gym, and playing Sims 4.

Isoke Atiba is a second-year PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature. Their areas of interest are 20th-century Japanese and African American literature and Ethnic Studies. At the moment, their research focuses on African American and Japanese fantasy. 

Cahlia Plett is a current Ph.D. track graduate student at the University of California, Riverside. Cahlia began their music career performing on the arpa paraguaya and gained a bachelor's in harp performance from DePauw University. Deeply invested in how refusal informs liberatory music practices in Central and South America, their current research investigates how feminist coalition within the women's festival space informs the stage as a political/worldmaking space, enacting feminist and queer futurities. They have engaged in ethnographic research with the directors of Festival Sorora, a women’s music festival in Asuncion, Paraguay, and hope to continue dialogue regarding women’s festivals in Latin America          as a marked category and a space of possibility for the decentralization of heteronormative timelines and gender performance.