The Directors of LaGuardia’s Writing Program, Allia Abdullah-Matta, Jacqueline Jones and Dominique Zino, would like to thank the following people and campus organizations for their support for the 2021 National Day on Writing:
The LaGuardia Women’s Center, especially Nathan Tosh and Deema Bayrakdar;
The Multicultural Exchange within the Office of Campus Life at LaGuardia, which consists of two peer mentoring programs: the Black Male Empowerment Cooperative (BMEC), a project of the CUNY Black Male Initiative (BMI) and CREAR Futuros (College Readiness, Achievement and Retention), an initiative of Hispanic Federation and CUNY, with special thanks to Rachel Romain, Student Life Manager for BMEC & CREAR Futuros;
The organizers of previous National Day on Writing celebrations, especially Bethany Holmstrom, who designed this website and led the 2020 celebration, Carrie Connors, Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez, and the faculty members of the English Department’s Creative Writing Committee, whose contributions we have leaned on as we continue the tradition of bringing students, faculty, and staff together to celebrate the various roles writing plays in our lives.