Charles Bazerman is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of California Santa Barbara, who has extensive publications on writing and won numerous awards <https://bazerman.education.ucsb.edu/> . He is founder of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research and its conference on Writing Research Across Borders, and has had leadership roles in other major writing organizations. He has long been engaged in open access publications and is an active editor at the open access publisher WAC Clearinghouse <https//wac.colostate.edu/> . He has been a moderate contributor to Wikipedia and is committed to advancing the presence of writing studies in it. He has been particularly engaged in recruiting additional scholars internationally to participate in the initiative.