Ashlie Kauffman Sarsgard (she/her) has worked in the education and training field for over twenty-five years, with the majority of that time serving higher ed and adult learners. Though her main expertise is in instructional design and online program development as well as higher ed educational technology, she has also worked as a web producer and Pre-K–12 educational product and curriculum developer, has taught language arts at the K–12 level, and has also taught introductory and advanced composition, creative writing, copywriting, and writing for health professions to college and adult learners. For the past year and a half she has served in a volunteer capacity as co-lead of a DEI Collaborative of individuals from over 70 institutions working to annotate 52 inclusive teaching practices and align them with major course design rubrics, including OSCQR and Quality Matters. She holds an MFA in poetry from NYU, an MA in fiction from Johns Hopkins, and an MFA in fiction from the University of Maryland College Park. She’s spent most of her life in Baltimore and New York and moved to Portland in 2020.