William Warfield
Principal- Hilliard Bradley High School |
Prior to accepting his current position, Bill was the building Principal at Olentangy Liberty High School from 2015-2018. Bill is a graduate of The Ohio State University where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in English. Bill received his Master’s Degree in Administration from Concordia University in 2013 and earned his Superintendent Licensure from Ashland University in 2018. Bill has worked closely with Erase the Space since its founding and has seen first hand the impact it has on all students. |
Brenda Jo Brueggemann
Professor of English and Aetna Endowed Chair of Writing, University of Connecticut |
Brenda also teaches at the Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury College, Vermont) during the summer months. Her work with Derek & Amelia (Erase the Space) began at the Bread Loaf School of English. She has been deaf (genetic) from birth and is also originally a midwestern United States farm girl. After college, she taught high school in her rural home community for 5 years before returning to graduate school to get her PhD. She has always been invested and interested in the work of middle and high school educators. In the mid-1990s, grounded by the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, she helped conceptualize the new field of Disability Studies (focused in the Humanities) and since then she has written, co-written, edited, or co-edited 16 books, including 9 memoirs in the “Deaf Lives” series she created for Gallaudet University Press, and over 70 essays and articles at the intersections of Deaf/Disability Studies and writing/art. She is the current co-editor of Disability Studies Quarterly.
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Glennon Sweeney
Senior Research Associate at the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity |
Her research focuses on race and inequality in metropolitan development with a focus on suburban development policy. An applied social scientist engaging in interdisciplinary transformative scholarship, all of Glennon’s research is designed to generate real world impacts, the co-production of knowledge, and dissemination in both community and scholarly contexts. Glennon holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Political Science, a Master’s degree in City and Regional Planning, and is currently a PhD candidate in the City and Regional Planning Department at The Ohio State University. A member of the Worthington Community Relations Commission and the Franklin County Local Food Council, Glennon is also the parent of two teenage daughters.
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Nidhi Satiani
Board of Education, Upper Arlington City Schools |
Nidhi holds a bachelor's degree in biology, master's degrees in vision science and in public health, and a doctorate in optometry from The Ohio State University, where she works as a senior research optometrist. In addition to Erase the Space, she serves on the Board of Directors for Ohio State Mortar Board Alumni Council and is active in the Columbus Metropolitan Club and Seeds of Caring, a local non-profit whose mission is to engage children ages 2-12 through a variety of service, social action, and community-building experiences. Nidhi is a strong believer in the power of public school systems to educate and engage our citizenry and to raise the quality of life for all communities. She lives in Upper Arlington with her husband and two children.
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