Executive Committee

Dr. Alan Brown is Professor of English Education at Wake Forest University. A former high school English teacher and basketball coach, he is the inaugural director for the Wake Forest Center for Literacy Education, director of graduate education in the Department of Education, director of the Skip Prosser Literacy Program, and co-PI for Winston-Salem TEACH, an inter-institutional teacher residency program 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 English language arts, education, and sport journals.

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. Dani Parker Moore is an educator, researcher, and author whose work centers on equity, justice, and family-school partnerships. Dr. Parker Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education at Wake Forest University. Parker Moore has led research-practice partnerships focused on meaningful parent and community involvement in education. She is the author of the newly released book (January 2026) Let’s Normalize Seeing Humanity First: An Anti-Racist Guide for Working with Parents and Families in Schools (Bloomsbury). She also co-edited Mentoring Students of Color: Naming the Politics of Race, Social Class, Gender, and Power (2019). As the founding Executive Director of the Wake Forest University Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School, Dr. Parker Moore leads a free, six-week summer literacy program for K-8 students. The program is dedicated to empowering youth to thrive academically and socially, cultivating a belief in their capacity to contribute meaningfully to their communities. In recognition of her service, Dr. Parker Moore received the Faculty Service Excellence Award from Wake Forest’s Office of Civic and Community Engagement in 2020. In 2022, Wake Forest University recognized her with the Martin Luther King Jr. “Building the Dream” award. In 2024, Parker Moore was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from The School of Education at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and, in 2025, she was recognized from the American Education Research Association’s Out of School Time Scholar Award.

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 Head of Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication 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.