Course Instructor:

Lyn is an activist/teacher/writer/researcher. Passionate about border crossing classrooms into the community and counter narrative, Lyn is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of English and with the African American Studies Minor program at Ball State University and served for 16 years as the Education Director for the Indiana Writers Center with their public Memoir Program.

Lyn is the author of Painless Reading Comprehension, co-author of Memory Workshop with Barb Shoup, and served as an editor for two independent presses: INwords Publications (16 years) and the 409 Press (8 years).

Lyn has edited 17 public memoir anthologies.  Lyn researches, publishes, peer reviews, and edits academically in community engagement scholarship, counter narrative, and disability studies.  Her academic work has been featured in the Journal of Organizational Ethnography, Journal of Teaching Writing, Peer Meridian Review, Journal of Post-Secondary Education and Disability,  Journal of Transformative Education, and Learning for Justice.

Lyn writes and publishes creative narrative nonfiction about mothering a child with a disability and about #blacklivesmatter.   Her published essays include “Casper” Facing Autism Project, “Sitting at the Feet of my Flanner House Elders: A Lesson After Dying” in IndyWrites Books, “In Indy, #blackyouthmatter!”, The Indianapolis Anthology, “Dear Guilt” in Speak your Story, and “Gather or Scatter: Girlfriending a Special Needs Mom” in Monday Coffee.