At the Broken Places by Mary Collins6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() I won the Teaching Award at CCSU as well, one of the proudest moments of my professional life because the regional public university takes great pride in fostering teaching above all else. In 2007 I returned to my native Connecticut for a range of reasons, including my fabulous mom, and took a tenured position as Program Coordinator of the Writing Minors at Central Connecticut State University. During that same period, I also published a history of National Public Radio, essays in the Washington Post, New York Times and other publications, and wrote an award-winning photobiography of the Wright brothers (National Geographic Books). ![]() ![]() I learned so much moving through various jobs at National Geographic and the Smithsonian and teaching part-time at Johns Hopkins University’s MA in Writing program, where I won the Teaching Award and the Professional Achievement Award for my work as an essayist and author of American Idle: A Journey Through Our Sedentary Culture. My twenty-five years in Washington, DC as a professor, writer and editor carved out the frame of who I’ve become as a professional. ![]()
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