Staff
Dana Kinzy (she/her) is director of the PPW, a position she has occupied since May 2025. She works on course scheduling and staffing, student requests, supervising program staff and departmental social media interns, and long-term development of the Program in Professional Writing. In addition to helping to revise long-standing course offerings, she creates writing courses specially designed to meet targeted needs of collaborative partners across campus and in the surrounding community. Prior to this position, she served as Associate Director of Rhetoric for eight years. She has co-written researched articles about teacher development, programmatic assessment, and writing program administration. She is currently collaborating with partners in the Siebel Center for Design and program faculty to study how incorporating Human Centered Design concepts in writing instruction can positively impact learning. She and one of her research partners, Carrie James, won an Instructional Innovation Mini-Grant in May 2025 to support this work.
Hilary Selznick (she, her) began her role as the Associate Director of the Professional Writing Program in Spring 2024. As the Associate Director, Hilary mentors and orients new and experienced BTW instructors to PPW’s business communication curriculum. In addition, she coordinates professional development workshops, designs and revises PPW courses, and assists in writing program administration. Her teaching and research focus generally on writing studies and technical communication. She recently presented her work in these areas at the 2023 Teachers of Technical Communication Conference and the 2024 Rhetoric Society of America Conference. In addition, her teaching is informed by social justice pedagogies, specifically in accessibility, inclusivity, and disability justice which is a lens she brings with her to the Professional Writing Program. She also designs workshop on accessibility and inclusive pedagogy in community and educational settings, her most recent at UIUC’s Office for Access and Equity. She is also a recipient of the 2023 English Department’s Undergraduate Teaching Award.
Andrew Moss teaches writing and literature at the University of Illinois. He has developed courses in grant writing, international business culture and practical business argument. He works extensively with public schools and community organizations in Champaign-Urbana to connect Illinois’ resources to under-served students and groups.
Lily Dawn (she/her) joined the Program in Professional Writing as a Business and Technical Writing instructor in Fall 2023 and started her term as Assistant Director in Fall 2025. In this role, she collaborates with fellow PPW instructors to develop and share course materials on the Program in Professional Writing Instructor Resources website. She also recruits, advocates for, and supports graduate instructors, while also assisting the administrative agendas of the Co-Directors. She received the PPW Teaching Award in Spring 2025 for her approach to teaching ethical AI use to business writing students. Outside of the Professional Writing Program, Lily is a PhD student in the English department. Her research centers on long 18th-century transatlantic ecocriticism, specifically the ways in which relationships to more-than-humans change in literature during early American colonization.