COOK FAMILY WRITING PROGRAM

Kate co-teaches in the Design Thinking and Communication (DTC) program and LING 480: American Academic Culture for Non-Native Speakers of English, a course that prepares international graduate students for teaching in the United States. Kate deeply values collaboration and sees coteaching as an opportunity to explore and interrogate the assumptions we carry.

In addition to teaching at Northwestern, Kate is the Assistant Director of Reflective Teaching at the Searle Center for Advancing Learning & Teaching. In this role, she collaborates with instructors at all levels throughout the university in honing their teaching and learning skills through a variety of events and programs and one-on-one consultations.

Kate earned her master’s in Writing, Rhetoric, and Discourse from DePaul University in Chicago, where she then taught in the First Year Writing program and was a coordinator in the University Center for Writing-based Learning. Throughout her work at DePaul, she developed her appreciation for peer-to-peer learning and critical reflection, two core values present throughout both her teaching and work at the Searle Center.