In our 18th episode, Doctoral Peer Mentor, Ashley Beverly, discusses her role as peer mentor, developing her own doctoral identity, and tips to help you develop your doctoral identity.

Ashley Beverly is a current Walden University student enrolled in the PhD Social Work program, with an emphasis in Clinical Social Work.

Mitch Luker is a Walden University student in the PhD in Nursing program and a Doctoral Peer Mentor who refers to himself as a "recovering perfectionist".

In our 17th episode, Mitch shares his strategies for overcoming perfectionism at Walden and in his personal life. Mitch also discusses his role as a Doctoral Peer Mentor.

Hillary Wentworth is the Manager of the CAEX Graduate Writing Courses and Chris Taylor is CAEX Graduate Writing faculty.

In this episode, Hillary and Chris join us to discuss paraphrase generators and ways they are used in the CAEX Graduate Writing courses. They also share some advice for avoiding these generators.

Stephanie Kramer is Writing Assessment Specialist in the Academic Skills Center. She hosts Doctoral Writing Assessment (DWA) webinars, advises doctoral students during DWA Drop-In Hours, responds to DWA emails, and much more.

In this episode, Stephanie tells us her top 5 frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the DWA and provides answers.

Visit Walden University's Doctoral Writing Assessment website for more information: https://academicguides.waldenu.edu/writingassessment.

Kim Palermo-Kielb is Coordinator of Instructional Support at the Academic Skills Center, a WaldenU grad, and a current WaldenU student. In our twelfth episode, Kim joins us to discuss her transition from student to staff and gives her top 3 tips students should know when making a tutoring appointment with the ASC.

Dr. Janine Allwright is a WaldenU students, soon to be WaldenU graduate, Grad Assistant in the Academic Skills Center, and international student. In this episode, Dr. Allwright discusses ways to overcome stats anxiety, what it's like applying to WaldenU while living in Oman, and her growing website where she collects dissertation haikus.

Dr. Heidi Marshall, WCSS Core Faculty and WaldenU Grad joins me for an in-depth discussion about academic literacy. We discuss staff, students, and faculty perspective on academic literacy; Heidi's work outside WaldenU as the owner of ReclaimFit; and are serendipidously interrupted by both cats and solicitors.

Dena Easton, Operations Manager of Writing Assessments and Walden University graduate joins me to discuss her role in Walden University's Writing Assessment initiative, her love of spreadsheets, and her decade long employment with Walden University.

Christy Fraenza, Doctoral Peer Mentors Coordinator, and Walden University graduate and faculty, joins me in part 2 of this 2-part series to discuss her role as Coordinator in Walden's Doctoral Peer Mentors Program, feeling supported as a Doctoral student, and the imposter phenomenon.

Shawna Burtis, PhD, Instructional Specialist in Technology and Web, joins me to discuss being a military spouse, teaching online, her experience as a Walden University graduate and doctoral student, and learning HTML.