Sharon Gartland is the national director of Women in the Academy & Professions, The Well’s sponsoring ministry. Before taking this position in 2005, Sharon taught masters-level pediatrics courses in the occupational-therapy curriculum at the University of Illinois at Chicago, while running a private pediatric practice. She is married to Craig Gartland and the mother of four children. Sharon will contribute regularly to the “Reflections” column at The Well.

Marcia Bosscher has a master’s degree in public health from the University of Michigan and has worked as a dietitian, an editor, a ministry coordinator, and a mom. She attends a campus church in Madison, Wisconsin, and has long enjoyed the company of the grad woman passing through. Their accounts of the joys and struggles of life in grad school helped inspire the development of The Well. Marcia was married to Peter Bosscher, professor of civil engineering at the UW-Madison, who passed away in November 2007. Peter’s life as a professor is one of the inspirations for the Bosscher-Hammond prize competition at Following Christ 2008.

Ann Boyd has worked for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship since 1997, exploring her interests and gifts in music, teaching, and spiritual formation. She received her bachelor’s in music education from Northwestern University in 1997 and tries to keep up with her singing through occasional choral gigs. Ann spends free moments working on knitting projects, cooking up gourmet meals, and reading Jane Austen novels. She and her husband Jon enjoy chronicling their days with their daughters Lucy and Rosie.

Jon Boyd counts it a privilege to be collaborating on The Well. He’s an associate director of Graduate & Faculty Ministries (GFM) and Conference Director of GFM’s upcoming Following Christ 2008 conference. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins, and has worked in online publishing for big corporations, non-profits, and one-person startups alike. He’s delighted to be married to Ann Boyd, and their daughters Lucy and Rosie keep him laughing.

Sally Ivaska is the wife of David, mother of four sons, and proud grandmother of Zadie Marie. She has a master of arts in teaching from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s in linguistics from Northeastern Illinois University. Her passions — small group Bible study and all things cross-cultural — have taken many forms over the years: hosting international students, coordinating small groups for her church, serving as the International Student Advisor at North Park University, and training African students to study Scripture inductively and write their own discussion materials. Sally is never far from a book or a friend and enjoys life most when her “plate is full.”

Kelly Monroe Kullberg joins the Women in the Academy & Professions initiative while also serving as the director of project development for The Veritas Forum, which she and friends first organized at Harvard in 1992. She is editor and co-author of Finding God at Harvard: Spiritual Journeys of Christian Thinkers and author of Finding God Beyond Harvard. Kelly enjoys star-gazing and playing guitars around a fire with friends. She hopes women will come to the 2009 Faculty Conference at Cedar Campus. Kelly lives with her husband David and five fun children in Columbus, Ohio.

Sara Phillips is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a part-time editor, and a teacher of freshman composition and intro. literature classes. An active member of the InterVarsity grad chapter at UW-Madison, she spends her days thinking about American poets, the intricacies of knitting patterns, and Wisconsin history. She is currently finishing a dissertation on the American long poem—and in her downtime, is glad to lend her copyediting skills to The Well.