A chair’s address in four movements, dedicated to Mike Condon, from whom I have learned everything I know about kindness.

This letter was written for the CCCC membership in June 2024.

About the New Racism," Victor Villanueva issued an invitation and a challenge to writing center directors, scholars, and tutors. Villanueva urged us to examine and to address the ways in which race and racism shape writing center identity and practices; enable and constrain knowledge and knowledge production, teaching and learning; and are reproduced not only through the thought and action of individuals, but also and especially through