is an associate professor of English and the Writing Program Administrator at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.  She has been involved in community-based writing since 1989, when she and a colleague piloted the Community Service Writing program at Stanford University.  As she watched students make the adjustment to new expectations in their writing for nonprofits, Nora developed an interest in the relationship between school and non-school writing; her studies of writers’ transitions have appeared in Writing the Community, College Composition and Communication, and the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.

In 1999, Nora worked with a team of colleagues to develop UNO’s Service-Learning Academy, serving as a program coordinator in the Academy’s first year and later as co-director.  The Service-Learning Academy developed a model of faculty development whereby faculty immerse themselves in an under-served neighborhood, learning about its history and culture, building relationships with community leaders, and taking on service-learning projects of their own.  Nora continues to focus on faculty development in her role as co-director of the UNO Difficult Dialogues Initiative, part of a nationwide project funded by the Ford Foundation to promote active inquiry into race, religion, and sexual orientation.

Nora collaborated with Tom Deans to secure the Campus Compact grant that launched Reflections, and she co-edited the first issue with Barbara Roswell in March, 2000. From 2001 to 2007, she served as senior editor.