Dr. Brooke Covington is an assistant professor of English at Christopher Newport University, where she teaches courses in rhetoric and composition, professional writing, medical humanities, and civic engagement and social justice. As the academic director of the university’s Center for Community Engagement, Brooke aims to integrate community-engaged learning into the curriculum by fostering deep, reciprocal, and sustainable connections between community partners, faculty, and students. She holds a Ph.D. in Rhetoric & Writing from Virginia Tech, and her research interests include rhetorics of public memory, anti-oppressive forms of community engagement, and narrative medicine. Her work has appeared in Community Literacy Journal, Journal of Medical Humanities, Western Journal of Communication, and Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.