FacingRacismLR

Michael Brockley…works as a school psychologist in rural northeast Indiana. He
published poems in other Facing Project publications as well as in Flying Island, Gyroscope Review,
Zingara Poetry Picks, Panoplyzine, and I am not a silent poet.
Dr.IRubyICain…Assistant Director of Adult and Community Education and Director of
M.A. degree programs and graduate certificates in Adult and Community Education and Executive
Development for Public Service in the Department of Educational Studies at Ball State University.
She also serves as the Director for It Is Well With My Soul (regional community program focused
on racial healing and equity via family and cultural historical research, presentation, and publication)
and is Leadership Council Member for Within our Lifetime (national network on racial healing and
equity). Her research agenda encompasses transformative and collaborative learning, racial equity,
social justice, and community mobilization. She has presented and published her research findings
locally, regionally, and internationally.
Rev.ISethICarrier-Ladd…senior minister at the Unitarian Universalist Church of
Muncie. He has lived in Muncie, with his wife Elizabeth, and children Mira and Theo, for almost
three years, and is grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Facing Racism project.
Jackson Eflin… a mercurial fey creature who absconded with an English degree from Ball
State and hasn’t stopped running since. He has been published in The Digital Literature Review, The
Broken Plate, and No Horns on These Helmets! He spends his nights trying to coax novels down out
of the ether.
Travis Oliver Graves…from Missoula, Montana and has lived and worked in New York
City and Vientiane, Laos, but now calls Muncie home. He’s worked as a fashion assistant, event
planner, interior painter, florist, and spent two years teaching English in Southeast Asia. Writing has
mostly been to him a place of refuge to process his experiences, but as his passion for writing has
increased, he’s sought opportunity to use writing to serve the furtherance of love, thoughtfulness, and
generosity to his friends, community, and world.
AnnaIGroover… a freshman English and political science major who hopes to become
a writer or civil rights lawyer. She believes that words and stories are essential to breaking down
prejudice and hatred.
Josh Holowell…a 29-year-old Pastor who lives in Muncie with his wife Whitney and their
three children. Josh is a 2009 Ball State University graduate from the College of Architecture and
Planning and is in the process of starting a new church in downtown Muncie.
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