off. Kirsch twice won the Braun Award for Excellence in Writing in the College of Education, received the 2019 Tutor Leadership Award from the East Central Writing Centers Association, was the recipient of an SVSU Mayme Hamilton Award for Tutoring Excellence for her work in the campus Writing Center, and was honored with a YWCA Great Lakes Bay Emerging Leader Award. She has also presented at six state and regional conferences on a variety of concerns, including community writing centers, trauma-informed education strategies, non-native English speakers and fundraising initiatives. Although Kirsch’s future plans have hit a bit of a bump due to COVID-19 school closings, she remains characteristically pragmatic. She intends to stay in the area for a few years and work as a teacher before embarking on international travel—and writing will undoubtedly be part of the journey and the destination.
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