Executive Committee

Dr. Alan Brown is Associate Professor of English Education at Wake Forest University. He is a former high school English teacher who serves as department chair and English education coordinator in the Department of Education. He is the inaugural director for the Wake Forest Center for Literacy Education and co-PI for Winston-Salem TEACH, a five-year, $4.7 million U.S. Department of Education Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) grant, a collaboration among Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem State University, Salem College, and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools. Dr. Brown teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on topics including action research, adolescent literacy, arts integration, educational leadership, English methods, secondary education, and young adult literature. His scholarly interests include critically examining the culture of sports in schools and society while connecting contemporary literacies to students’ extra-curricular interests. He is the co-author of Reading the World through Sports and Young Adult Literature (NCTE, 2024), co-editor of Developing Contemporary Literacies through Sports (NCTE, 2016), and has published in numerous education and sport journals. Dr. Brown organizes the Skip Prosser Literacy Program, a collaboration between Wake Forest Athletics and the Department of Education, and he leads the Paisley IB Magnet School Sports Literacy Program, a weekly program for seventh- and eighth-grade boys that supports youth through academic, social, and community engagement.

Dr. Brook Davis joined the Wake Forest University Department of Theatre and Dance in 1997 and regularly teaches Introduction to Theatre, Dramatic Literature, Acting One, and Theatre in Education. She also directs for WFU and professionally. Brook’s research interests include theatre pedagogy; 20th and 21st Century American dramatic literature; and practitioner, educator and playwright, Constance D’Arcy Mackay. Brook is the recipient of the Reid-Doyle Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2006), WFU Award for Excellence in Advising (2013), and the Building a Dream Award (2019). In 2000, Brook developed the Theatre in Education class that partners Theatre and Education students and places them in public school classrooms to assist teachers with theatrical, curriculum-based lesson plans. Recently, this course has become an interdisciplinary team taught course with Dr. Alan Brown (Education) and Prof. Christina Soriano (Dance).  Partnering with the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, Brook has also taught Theatre for Youth (around the development of the Paisley Drama Program) and Education for Social Change (working with the teachings of Augusto Boal to combat bullying in the schools). Brook volunteers with Freedom School and in local elementary schools to lead creative drama workshops. Recently, Brook has collaborated with other local artists and scholars to develop and produce staged readings of stories from local veterans.

Dr. Danielle Parker Moore is an Assistant Professor of Education in the Department of Education at Wake Forest University. Dr. Parker Moore teaches about issues of multicultural education and social justice. Her scholarship centralizes social justice with a focus on fostering community-university engagement through the CDF Freedom Schools model with a specific focus on parent engagement. Dr. Parker Moore serves as the Executive Director of the Wake Forest Freedom School Summer Program, hosted yearly on the campus of Wake Forest University. The program provides summer reading enrichment to students in 3rd through 8th grades.

Dr. Keri Epps is an associate teaching professor in the Writing Program at Wake Forest University. Her research, teaching, and practice lie at the intersection of rhetorical genre theory, media studies, and community-engaged research. As an Academic and Community Engaged (ACE) fellow, she developed community-engaged teaching and research practices and has since applied this training while working with the local arts-based nonprofit Authoring Action to study and promote their signature creative writing curriculum for teen authors.

Kyle Denlinger is the Digital Pedagogy & Open Education Librarian at Wake Forest University’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library. Kyle earned his MA in Information Science & Learning Technologies from the University Missouri–Columbia and his BS in Secondary Education from the University of Cincinnati. He has been recognized as a 2014 Library Journal Mover and Shaker and a 2014 American Library Association Emerging Leader.