• Secondary English Education teacher educator
• Taught 9-12 English for 9 years at Lincoln North Star
• Worked with C3WP i3 sites
• NeWP Embedded Institute, 2012-2013
• Husker Writers 2017-2018

Jillian's connection with the Nebraska Writing Project began her first year of teaching, when her then-department chair had different individuals in the department do EQUIPs during department meetings. Being positioned as a writer and an inquisitive educator were both things that deeply influenced Jillian's path as an educator. Since that time, Jillian has taken part in an embedded institute at North Star High School—where she was able to grow as a writer alongside teachers across curricular areas-- and she has worked with Husker Writers and C3WP both as a teacher and as a teacher facilitator. In her new position as a teacher educator, Jillian looks forward to connecting early career teachers with NeWP!