Carmen Acevedo Butcher is on the faculty in U.C. Berkeley’s College Writing Programs. She is an author, teacher, and an award-winning translator. Her dynamic work around the evolution of language and the necessity of just and inclusive language has garnered interest from various media, including the BBC and NPR’s Morning Edition. A Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year, she was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer at Sogang University, a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London, and a Rotary Graduate Scholar at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
Carmen and her students were interviewed by BBC World Service for “Dialects and Evolution(link is external)” in the Compass series “The Future of English(link is external).” Listen in at 22:30. During two Lecturer Teaching Fellowships(link is external), Carmen collaborated with students to create teaching websites on Weebly(link is external) and Tumblr(link is external). Her most recent innovative pedagogy projects are “Ally Is a Verb(link is external)” for LTF and as a co-developer of Berkeley Changemaker® Public Speaking(link is external). Visit her professional website(link is external), CWP faculty page, and Shambhala author page(link is external). She holds an MA and a PhD, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Georgia.