INSIDE THE NOOK
ABOUT EASTON'S NOOK
Easton’s Nook is a warm, comfortable, beautiful space where scholars, artists, and activists can meet, and can pursue their work individually or as a part of small, supportive, collaborative groups. For those who are interested in professional development supports, in the Spring and Summer Easton’s Nook hosts workshops on preparing for the academic job market, writing, publishing, and planning for tenure. All of these workshops are available to post-docs and tenure-track and non-tenure track faculty.
The name “Easton’s Nook” is a tribute to our mom, Zerish Mattis Easton, a social worker whose life was spent engaging in extraordinary acts of love and care. From organizing community based programs for families, to financing GED programs out-of-pocket, to taking time to help clients and community members to learn to read and write after work, she managed to find ways of seeking out and lifting up that which was most graceful and dignified in every child and adult she met. The “nook” is that special place in the house where she would sit, cross-legged at sunrise to pray, meditate and write as an entry into her day.
MEET OUR FOUNDERS
We (Jacquie and Nadine) are two fierce, fearsomely loving sisters with a single mission: to provide a space where writers, scholars, artists, and activists can come together in an intimate community to work, produce and be “fed.”
Dr. Jacqueline Mattis
I am an academic (a social scientist) with more than two decades of experience as a researcher, author, journal reviewer, editorial board member, academic administrator, and co-leader of intensive writing and publication bootcamps and workshops for academics.
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Nadine Mattis Knox