Greg Gillespie is a Ph.D. student in Rhetoric, Writing, and Linguistics, teaches first-year composition, and works as a tutor and coach in the Writing Center.  He began to transition to academia after working in the federal government for more than a decade, where he learned how crucial effective communication is in complex contexts, especially within technical writing. In the classroom, Greg uses innovative pedagogy to connect students with writing practices that help them apply critical thinking skills to the world around them. His general research interests include multimodal composition pedagogy, L2 writing, and technical and professional communication. Specifically, he is interested in connecting industry experience to pedagogy and how graduate teaching associates and other contingent instructors navigate support networks. Building upon a study he conducted to examine the roles that writing centers play in support of multimodal assignments, Greg continues to investigate how composition instructors may collaborate with both university and community resources to develop technical competencies that result in professionally produced texts. In addition to teaching and tutoring, he works on digital humanities projects. Outside of the university, Greg continues to work as a federal contractor specialist in technical writing, industrial security, project management, and program administration.