Gisel Ureña

Business Development and Administration Executive

Gisel started her entrepreneurial journey at the age of 14, founding her first business in makeup artistry at the age of 15. Through this experience she discovered her ability to strategize and execute the birth of a profitable business. As a visionary, she thrives in leading positive and impactful change, always prioritizing quality and excellence. From VE’s early stages, Gisel has worked side by side with Pierce VanDunk on the formation of the company’s infrastructure and expansion for longterm success. Gisel is committed to the evolution of VanDunk Edits!

Cynthia Otukwu

Social Media Marketing Specialist

Chisom Cynthia Otukwu holds a BSc from Nnamdi Azikiwe University and specializes in Social Media Marketing. With three sisters, she cherishes the strong bond and support they share as a family. As a social media marketing specialist, Chisom enjoys the creativity her role allows, bringing innovative ideas to life in her work.

Elisa Rowe

Editor and Organizational Liaison

Elisa edits academic and nonacademic texts, and they especially love pieces that use storytelling. They have experience editing poetry and love giving poets feedback! As an organizational liaison, they work with presses and universities to generate new projects and coordinates editing and educational services. Outside of VanDunk Edits, they are a book reviewer at Kirkus, a freelance journalist, an editor at Game Over Books, and a poet. Their debut chapbook Every Imagined Tundra was published in 2022 by Bottlecap Press.

Dorothy Littell Greco

Editor

Dorothy Littell Greco works as a writer, editor, and photographer. She sees herself as a journalist with prophetic and pastoral leanings. She has written two books (Making Marriage Beautiful and Marriage in the Middle) and is currently finishing her third, which focuses on misogyny. Dorothy enjoys doing content editing and coaching. (Her database includes all things church related, healing, parenting, and marriage.) She and her husband Christopher love to kayak, bike, travel, and share good food with friends.

Daniel Hauge

Editor

Dan Hauge has a long career writing and editing in the humanities and social sciences, with a PhD in Practical Theology from Boston University School of Theology. His primary interests are in diversity and equity, psychology, and liberation theology. Currently he works in the DEI office at North Shore Community College in Lynn, Massachusetts. He is married to Ana Maria and they live with their cat, Alves, on the coast north of Boston.

Andrew Edward

Editor

Andrew (he goes by Drew most of the time) holds a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and he currently works at that institution in the Office of Advancement. He lives happily with his wife and two cats. He enjoys doctoral dissertation editing the most since it is rigorous and, at the same time, he gets to learn something new!

Lauren Hickey

Editor

Lauren holds a Master of Divinity from Boston University School of Theology and is currently pursuing a PhD in Integral Noetic Sciences at the California Institute for Human Science where she researches expanded states of consciousness and spiritual and anomalous experiences. With an interdisciplinary background in the humanities, psychology, and biofield science, she most enjoys editing doctoral dissertations. A long-time student of inner alchemical practices, she teaches Kundalini Yoga and energetic techniques for personal transformation. She has worked as a freelance writer and editor for over a decade, and lives with her partner Kyle on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

Amanda Cherry

Editor

Sheila Owen

Citation and Formatting Specialist

Sheila Owen has developed an aptitude for editing citations and bibliographies through years of helping graduate students find resources and then figure out how to cite them. After having lived in eleven towns in six states, she has spent the last twenty-four years as an academic librarian in Memphis, TN. A brief career as a middle-school English teacher immediately after college made graduate school very attractive. In 1994 she switched to library science, and ever since, she has delighted in her love of words, stories, and seeing the light go on in people’s heads when they learn something new.