National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing 2013: The Year of the Writer
Tampa, FL Nov. 1st -3rd
Keynote Speaker
Marty Baron
Executive Editor of the Washington Post
Berkeley Alum, '72
Martin “Marty” Baron became the Executive Editor of The Washington Post in January 2013. Prior to that he was the editor of The Boston Globe. During his eleven-year tenure at The Globe, the paper won six Pulitzer Prizes, including the Pulitzer for Public Service in 2003 for a Globe Spotlight Team investigation into clergy sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
Baron has held top editing positions at The Miami Herald, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times. In 2001, Baron was the executive editor of The Miami Herald when, under his leadership, the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for its coverage of the raid to recover Elian Gonzalez.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012, was selected by the National Press Foundation as “Editor of the Year” in 2004, and was named “Editor of the Year” by Editor & Publisher Magazine in 2001.
Baron, who is fluent in Spanish, was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. He is a 1972 graduate of Berkeley Preparatory School, and in 1976, he received both his B.A. and M.B.A. from Lehigh University. He began his journalism career in 1976 at The Miami Herald as a state reporter and later as a business writer.
Opening Night Speaker
Kristin Gilliss
The Mulago Foundation
Berkeley Alum, '95
In 1993, Kristin Gilliss, with the support of the Head of the English Department, Pat Lukacs, was one of the first tutors for the writing center at Berkeley Preparatory School. Kristin assured the success, sustainability, and the high standards of the writing center through her charismatic leadership and ebullient determination. As the student representative of the new writing center, Kristin built bridges between the center and faculty from all disciplines by repeatedly demonstrating the efficacy of peer tutors. Similarly, Kristin (often through scholarship but just as often through creativity and wit) united administrators, teachers and students in a shared commitment to excellence in writing. She went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard University where she studied English and American Literature. She has worked in investment banking at Raymond James, volunteered for the Peace Corps, served as a Crisis Corps volunteer with FEMA after Hurricanes Rita and Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, and opened the New York office of the non-profit organization Upwardly Global, an organization that helps qualified émigrés and refugees to reclaim their professional careers in the U.S. She has also served as program officer for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, worked on the Andes-Amazon Initiative, and worked at the Skoll Foundation. She currently serves as an associate portfolio director at the Mulago Foundation which “looks for the best solutions to the biggest problems in the poorest countries.” Kristin has a distinguished career of using her abilities as a writer to create social change. We welcome her home to share in the twentieth anniversary of the center she helped create.