Teaching Artist Marlin Hipai Pamba is a Telling Room alum of the Young Writers & Leaders program from 2016-17, as well as Publishing Workshop. She interned with AmeriCorps from 2018-20 here at The Telling Room. Her love of working with students and creative writing keeps her involved. She is currently pursuing a degree in education at Southern Maine Community College. Working out, podcasts, and traveling are high on the list of ways she enjoys spending her time.
Read MoreYoung Writers & Leaders Program Lead Sonya Tomlinson has been teaching with The Telling Room since 2008. Sonya holds a B.F.A. in Design from UNC-Greensboro. Deeply involved in the arts both professionally and personally, she spent nearly a decade as traffic manager and contributing arts writer at The Portland Phoenix and on the events staff at Space Gallery - all the while moonlighting as performing and recording artist Sontiago on Montreal’s Endemik Music. Her heartstrings are tugged in the direction of teaching high school students self-expression through songwriting and poetry.
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