Co-College Liaison of ICTE Board– Kim Van Es is an Instructor in Education for Northwestern College and owner of Kim’s Writing & Editing Service. She taught high school and college-level English for over 25 years in SE and NW Iowa. Kim is passionate about YA lit, grammatical choices, personal and political writing, and most anything that has to do with words. Distance running gives her time to listen to books or percolate writing ideas. She loves bringing preservice English teachers to the ICTE conference and hopes to see growing numbers of this population attend.