Glynnis Reed-Conway (she/they)
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Glynnis Reed-Conway (she/they) is an accomplished professional visual artist, poet, art educator, and emerging scholar. She is currently a dual-title Ph.D. degree candidate in Art Education and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. She is co-editor and contributor to the book BIPOC Alliances: Building Communities and Curricula and author of the biography James Baldwin: Novelist and Critic for young adults. She is motivated by the capacity of art to build worlds and act as a potential healing force. Her scholarly activities weave multiple strands of study that include artmaking practices, Africana religions, disability studies, and autoethnography to bring greater awareness of the value of the lives and contributions of intersectionally marginalized individuals to the fields of art and writing.