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TAA Board Welcomes New Executive Committee Members

The TAA Board welcomed new President Dione Taylor, new Vice President/President-Elect Christine Tulley, and new Secretary Jamie Pope on July 1. Former Board Secretary, Brenda Ulrich, an intellectual property attorney at Archstone Law, was appointed a three-year term as Board member.

Taylor is ascending to President after serving two years as Vice President/President-Elect. She is Director of the Pupil Personnel Services, School Counseling program in the School of Education at Point Loma Nazarene University. She conducted research with graduate students around the topic of cultural competence and published the results in an article entitled Developing graduate and undergraduate student cultural sensitivity and emerging competence using the Intercultural Development Inventory®.
Tulley is Professor of English and Founder and Director of the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing at The University of Findlay. As the campus Academic Development Coordinator, she runs faculty writing groups and offers tenure and promotion application support including effective practices for writing teaching philosophies and persuasive reflective statements. She is the author of How Writing Faculty Write (2018) and contributes regularly to Inside Higher Education on faculty productivity issues. She also serves as a research adviser to Prolifiko, a UK-based writing productivity think tank, and as a dissertation writing coach with Defend and Publish.

Pope served one year as a Board member before being elected Secretary by the Board. She currently serves as Adjunct Assistant Professor in Nutritional Sciences in the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. Previously, she served as Assistant Professor of Practice in Medicine, Health and Society in the College of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt University. She is the co-author of Nutrition for a Changing World, the recipient of a 2020 TAA Textbook Excellence Award. In 2020, she developed and produced an audio course for Learn25.com (Nutrition 101: Understanding the Science and Practice of Eating Well) designed for the NPR type lifelong learner. She has also authored or contributed to numerous scientific and popular press publications.