Elizabeth Wimberly-Young

Elizabeth Wimberly-Young, M.F.A. is the Assistant Vice Provost of Student Research, Learning, and Innovation, leads First to Go, Office of Research and Creative Arts (ORCA), Academic Resource Center (ARC), Disability Support Services (DSS), and McNair programs. She is a professor, writer, and scholar-practitioner, with experience in educational access, core curriculum and student research program development, reform, implementation, and assessment.

Assistant Vice Provost Young brings 19 years of teaching experience in composition and creative writing, and her scholarly and creative work has appeared in several publications. She is a co-creator of the Rhetorical Arts Festival, a student supported event where Rhetorical Arts students deliver persuasive speeches on social justice, and was the recipient of a Virginia G. Piper Center Independent Travel Grant for work and research at New Light, a care center for the children of sex workers in Kolkata, India. She received her B.A. in Philosophy from Elon University and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Fiction from Arizona State University. In addition to her work with student research, educational access, and first-generation college students, she currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and is a foundation member of the Omega of California Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at LMU.