Welcome to the collective

This career transformation and writing coaching business is a team effort. Our team is built on brilliant womxn with diverse backgrounds and knowledge who are working daily to help you have the career (and life) you want.

We’re tackling all that stuff they never taught you in grad school. All the things I learned baptism-by-fire style in over 15 years in academia: I’m breaking them down for you, step-by-step (don’t tell Reviewer #2!). How to write for publication? How to take control of your career by centering your writing, while still enjoying your real actual life? How to manage the ten gazillion things on your to-do list with drive and determination? Yep. That’s what we’re teaching here.

Take a deep breath.
We got you.

Cathy Mazak

Founder and Writing Coach

Cathy Mazak

Founder and Writing Coach

As a full professor and mom of three, Cathy got the idea for a writing coaching business from her colleagues who wondered how she was publishing so much with a 4/4 load.

With a Ph.D. from Michigan State University (where she worked under Dr. Geneva Smitherman), Cathy landed her dream job at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and promptly got pregnant. That forced her to figure out how to fit all her academic work into daycare hours, and when she did, she brought in over half a million dollars in external funding, founded a research center, published lots of articles and two edited volumes.

Yulia Denisyuk

Copywriter

Yulia Denisyuk

Copywriter

Yulia is a passionate storyteller and a published travel photographer and writer with work in National Geographic, BBC Travel, and more. Yulia believes in the power of incredible mentors and a strong community to transform careers and lives.

Before joining Cathy’s team, Yulia has spent nearly a decade working for the US Navy and various global conglomerates. She was one of the “lucky ones” who got to earn an MBA and go through the full brunt of the corporate grinder. She heartily wishes that experience for no one.

She heartily wishes that experience for no one. Post-burn-out.

Rocío P. Caballero-Gill

Writing Coach

Rocío Caballero-Gill

Writing Coach

Rocío is a Peruvian Geoscientist specialized in Paleoclimatology and Paleoceanography, a writing coach, mentor, international leader, and activist. With a Ph.D. from Brown University (where she worked closely with Drs. T. Herbert, S. Clemens, and W. Prell), Rocío forged her own path in academia as a researcher, mostly remotely and sometimes to accommodate her chronic disorder needs.

Figuring out how to be a mom and a scientist with an invisible chronic illness at once, Rocío helped secure over half a million dollars in external and internal funding.

Gina Robinson

Writing Coach

Gina Robinson

Writing Coach

Gina worked as a Spanish professor for seven years before getting tenure and wondering, “Is this all there is to it?”

After years of filling up buckets labeled Teaching, Research, and Service, Gina had no means left to fill her own cup and was feeling unmotivated and burned out. As a single mom and woman of color, she felt misunderstood and undervalued. Without a community of like-minded academics behind her, she had few resources to combat those feelings or make meaningful change. Leaving academia gave her a chance to spread her wings⁠—first as a freelance writer and then working in public humanities—and develop a sense of confidence and pride in her writing.

Paulette Almodóvar Arroyo

Operations Manager

Paulette Almodóvar Arroyo

Operations Manager

Paulette has always been passionate about being the change one desires to see in the world—and in every space that she interacts with. She believes that customized, personal service is one of the key attributes of organizational success and she strives to deliver that service every day. As a Latina, Paulette loves working with such a diverse team and community, helping so many womxn in academia transform their writing and publishing practices, a needed and welcomed change.

“Being of help is one of the greatest feelings and I love all the backstage work. Looking forward to being a great resource to our community and to you!”

Thea L. Racelis

Writing Coach

Thea L. Racelis

Writing Coach

Thea comes to coaching from an eclectic background that includes a career as religious professional, consultant, educator, and writer. She is a trauma-informed practitioner with experience supporting people in a variety of settings: from the hospital to the bars and the courthouse to the classroom.

Her most recent academic adventure was as a writing instructor in dual enrollment programs with community college outreach to students in inner city schools. She loves teaching writing as it relates to social justice and asking the important questions: how do voices from the margins find the time and resources to be heard.

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NAVIGATE

Your Writing Roadmap®

All career stages

12-week online program

Navigate helps tenure track womxn and nonbinary professors double their publishing output in a year by implementing 10 essential time and project management/productivity systems with weekly support/ accountability of coaching and peers.

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Design Your Dossier

Pre-tenure

6-month coaching program

Amplify teaches early career scholars a process for securing promotion by developing publication-focused strategies, boundaries, and priorities in a peer- and coach-supported small group.

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Mid-career

6-month coaching program

Elevate helps midcareer scholars identify and make a plan to reach the next big milestone in their career by identifying and working in their zone of genius with the support of coaching and peers.

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Scholar's Voice Faculty Retreats is a professional development experience designed to inspire womxn and nonbinary faculty with the mindset and strategy to take control of their time by centering their writing and publishing.

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