Holly Vanderhaar joins CEI after serving as a communications professional for the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, where she drafted remarks, emails, articles and other communications; edited and produced reports, policies and the provost’s newsletter; and facilitated the biennial Guy Stanton Ford Memorial Lecture. She has also worked with Kate Martin and James Ondrey to edit and distribute the CEI newsletter for the past four years. Prior to joining the Provost’s office, Holly was a graduate program coordinator in CLA, worked as a freelance book editor and was a writer/researcher for The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. She earned her MFA in creative writing at the University of Minnesota in 2010.