Creating a Satisfying Academic Career with Jo Van Every

Christine Weddle is a private coach for women with ADHD, based in Colombia, MO. 

She has a background in counseling with an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a minor in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Missouri at Columbia. 

She worked for eight years in counseling jobs — outpatient, inpatient, residential, and home-based, but this caused her to become burnt out. 

After receiving a life changing ADHD diagnosis, Christine now runs her own coaching business called Light Spirit Coaching.

Hannah de Keijzer is a nonfiction book coach and editor and the author of How to Enjoy Being Edited: A Practical Guide for Nonfiction Authors. She also spent a decade as a professional dancer and nationally board-certified massage therapist. 

Katherine is an award-winning and innovative educator, based in Melbourne, Australia. 

She is currently Senior Lecturer in Research Education and Development at La Trobe University. 

She is also an author of several academic books, a writing workshop leader, speaker, pannelist and an active librettist and lyricist with a specialisation in choral and religious pieces.

Laura is a publishing consultant and developmental editor for academic authors. She runs courses, workshops, and other publishing services under her business: Manuscript Works.

She's on Twitter and Medium as @lportwoodstacer and has a newsletter called Manuscript Works.

She has also written a book: THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK: A GUIDE FOR SCHOLARLY AUTHORS, published by Princeton University Press in 2021.

Lee is the Assistant Director for Digital Learning at the Center for New Designs for Learning and Scholarship at Georgetown University. She worked primarily in public higher education for almost 20 years and received her PhD in Comparative Literature in 2007 from the University of Alberta. She blogged for a long time at Inside Higher Ed, and was a contributor to ProfHacker. You can check out her writing, All Things ADHD Podcast, and Bluesky posts at @readywriting.

Myriam Houssay-Holzchurch has been a member of the Academic Writing Studio for several years. She has recently returned to work part time after an extended sick leave to address burnout. She is a geographer who works for Université Grenoble Alpes in France.