Amy Nocton is an ECE Spanish instructor at EO Smith High School and has been teaching English composition as an adjunct for ten years for the University of Connecticut, Storrs campus. She is a film aficcionado and a published poet. Amy has long incorportated film into her ECE courses and her English classes at UConn as another means of exploring text and creativity. Amy's late husband, the former Director of the Connecticut Writing Project, used to run this course, so she learned from the best mentor possible and will do her best to make the course what he would have wanted it to be.
Katie Grant is a Training and Organizational Development Specialist with the Connecticut Education Association, where she works to support the advancement of the teaching profession, as well as the experiences of students in schools, across the state. She was previously a high school English teacher and UConn ECE Experience Instructor as well as program staff for UConn Pre-College Summer. Katie loves all things in teaching and learning—and especially all things relating to the teaching and learning of reading and writing. As a high school teacher, Katie was focused on creating student leadership opportunities through directing her school's yearbook program and writing center.
Julie Serkosky is a reporter, editor and professor whose experience in the journalism field spans three decades. She specializes in political and community reporting and digital techniques and has taught UConn courses on ethics, journalism history, entrepreneurial journalism, editing, online journalism and business reporting.
Etan Markus, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology. Recipient of the 2016 AAUP Teaching Excellence Career Award; 2016 CLAS Excellence in Teaching Award; 2016 UCONN Office of Undergraduate Research Faculty Mentorship Excellence Award; NorthEast Under/graduate Research Organization for Neuroscience “Faculty Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Mentorship” (2020). For more information go to: 
Clyde Cady, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Residence in the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Cady received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota where he was introduced to bioinorganic chemistry, the chemistry of the elements as pertaining to life events. He moved to Connecticut for his Ph.D. at Yale University where he studied photosynthesis. After postdoctoral studies at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Rutgers University he started teaching general and inorganic chemistry at UConn. His special interests are directed toward introducing pre-college students to the thrills of experimental chemistry.
