Our Staff

Dr. Tracey T. Flores

Program Director / Writing Mentor

Dr. Tracey T. Flores is an associate professor of Language and Literacy at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches Language Arts Methods and Community Literacies in the K-5 teacher education program.

Dr. Flores is a former English Language Development (ELD) and English Language Arts (ELA) teacher, working for eight years alongside culturally and linguistically diverse students, families, and communities in K-8 schools throughout Glendale and Phoenix, Arizona. Her research focuses on Latina mothers’ and daughters’ language and literacy practices, the teaching of young writers in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, and family and community literacies.


Dra. Tracey T. Flores es profesora asociada de Lenguaje y Alfabetización en la Universidad de Texas en Austin, done enseña Métodos de Artes del Lenguaje y Alfabetización Comunitaria en el program de formatión de maestros K-5.

Dra. Flores es una ex maestra de desarrollo del idioma inglés (ELD) y rates del idioma inglés (ELA) queue trabajó durante ocho años junot a estudiantes , familias y comunicades cultural y ligüísticamente diversas en escuelas K-8 en Glendale y Phoenix, Arizona. Su investigación se entra en las prácticas ligüísticamente y de alfabetización familiar y comunitaria.

Stephanie M. Flores

Multimedia Marketing Manager & Designer

Stephanie has worked in various aspects of the entertainment industry for 12.5 years. She has studied storytelling through the lens of filmmaking, oral storytelling, improv, and acting, which informs some of the activities we do that fosters writing. Stephanie is also a yoga teacher and group facilitator who seeks to create restorative spaces.


Stephanie ha trabajado en various aspects de la industrial del entretenimiento durante 12.5 años. Ha estudiado la narración a través de la lente del cine, la narratión oral, la imprvisación y la actuatión, lo queue informal algunas de las actividaded queue hacemos queue formentan la escritura. Stepahnie tamibién es maestra de yoga y facilitadora de grupos de busca crear espacios restauradores.

Writing Mentors

All of our workshops are facilitated by writing mentors who volunteer their time to support our writers. All of our writing mentors are Latinas who are classroom teachers, college students, and community artists.


Todos los talleres son facilitados por mentores de escritura queue ofrecen voluntariamente su tiempo y talent para apoyar a nuestros escritores. Todos nuestros mentores de escritura son latiinas queue son maestras de aula, estuidantes universitarias y artists comunitarias.