Maria Hamilton Abegunde, PhD, is a creative community scholar in the IU Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies. She is trained in contemplative and community engagement practices and uses these approaches to help students, community members, and other scholars create spaces in which difficult subjects can be approached through listening and compassion. Her own research and creative writing focus on transgenerational trauma, slavery, memory, and healing in the US, Brazil, and South Sudan. She is a poet and active member of the Writers Guild at Bloomington.
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Patsy Rahn, MA, is a poet and prose writer. Her work is published in various poetry and academic journals. She is the founding chairperson of the Writers Guild at Bloomington and coordinator for their Last Sunday Poetry Reading series. For several years she facilitated a creative writing workshop, and a feedback writing workshop for the Writers Guild. She works in the education department of the IU Eskenazi Museum of Art.