In 2023, following a two-year professional program, Genevieve N. Williams (she/they) became certified to teach mindfulness by University of California at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center and Sounds True; she brings this knowledge into her work with students. Meeting with individuals and small groups, Genevieve works with students on breath/body practices, self-compassion, anxiety and stress relief, and loving kindness. Genevieve is also an RYT-200 certified yoga teacher through One Tree Yoga.Genevieve holds an MFA from University of Nebraska at Omaha, where they received two Helen W. Kenefick Academy of American Poets Prizes. She is a queer poet whose poetry won an Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner, was nominated for Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net, and appears in Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, The American Journal of Poetry, Mid-American Review, and Verse Daily, among other journals and anthologies.Genevieve has been working in writing centers since 2016. They love helping students of varied language contexts and disciplines. As the writing center coordinator at Bellevue University, Genevieve aims to increase accessibility, decrease barriers to help-seeking behaviors, and co-create brave spaces both in-person and online. She has presented a talk and practice on mindfulness in writing centers to both the Nebraska Writing Centers Consortium and the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing (NCPTW). For the past two years, Genevieve has served as a volunteer to review conference proposals for NCPTW. In 2023, they attended the European Writing Centers Association’s Summer Institute, and they continually work to put into practice the principles and strategies learned during that program.Since 2013, Genevieve has also worked via word of mouth as a copyeditor and copywriter for clients such as literary novelists, poets, a content management firm, a restaurant, a health and wellness company, and doctoral students.When Genevieve isn’t working, you can often find her practicing yoga, meditating, reading, going for hikes, or spending time with people she loves.
i have often wondered where you went or what happened to you. Once upon a time it seemed you were everywhere in our lives. Am so happy, glad and proud that that that wonderful and funny little girl has grown up to be the wonderful young lady I always knew she was. May your happiness continue and know that you share many of my youthful dreams of yesterday and that I am so glad you have found the Genevieve I always knew was there.
Genevieve N. Williams 
i have often wondered where you went or what happened to you. Once upon a time it seemed you were everywhere in our lives. Am so happy, glad and proud that that that wonderful and funny little girl has grown up to be the wonderful young lady I always knew she was. May your happiness continue and know that you share many of my youthful dreams of yesterday and that I am so glad you have found the Genevieve I always knew was there.