Your Story Bridge Facilitators
Jennifer De Leon
Jennifer De Leon is the award-winning author of the YA novels, Borderless, featured on the TODAY show, and Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From. She is also the author of White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing, which won the Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press. Jenn is the editor of Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education, an International Latino Book Award-winning anthology. As an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Framingham State University and faculty member for the Newport MFA Program at Salve Regina University, she has published prose in over a dozen literary journals including Ploughshares, Iowa Review, and Michigan Quarterly Review, and her work has appeared on NPR. She is is a dynamic and experienced speaker who connects with audiences of all ages and has delivered keynote addresses and facilitated workshops at conferences, universities, and forums across the nation.
Connect with her online @jdeleonwriter or jenniferdeleonauthor.com.
Adam Stumacher
Adam Stumacher is an author, educator, and storyteller whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Narrative, The Kenyon Review, The Sun, The Southern Review, and others, is a multiple notable recipient from Best American Short Stories, and won a Nelson Algren Award and the Raymond Carver Short Story Award. He holds degrees from Cornell University and Saint Mary’s College and was the Carol Houck Smith fellow at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. He has been awarded scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, as well as residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Spiro Arts, and others. He is a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and has taught at MIT and in prisons. A longtime teacher, leader, and consultant in public schools, he has been awarded the Sontag Prize in Urban Education and a fellowship from the Lynch Leadership Academy at Boston College. His storytelling has been televised on Stories from the Stage and his commentaries air on NPR.
Learn more at adamstumacher.com