Bryan Boyce / Executive Director
bboyce@cowtippingpress.org / 507.201.9678
Bryan Boyce grew up in Waseca, Minnesota and graduated from Grinnell College before teaching high school English in Lesotho and the Rosebud Lakota Reservation and serving as Assistant Director of Breakthrough San Juan Capistrano, which he led to nationally recognized student gains. As the sibling of a brother with developmental disabilities, Bryan knows firsthand the value and richness of exchange across neurological difference. He seeks to give others this opportunity—an alternative to presuming deficit and pity—through the often inventive, radically self-representative writing of Cow Tipping authors.
Rachel Lieberman / Program Director
rlieberman@cowtippingpress.org / 847.340.1339
Rachel Lieberman grew up in and around Chicago, Illinois before moving to the Twin Cities to attend Macalester College. For over eight years she has enjoyed teaching in special education classrooms, coaching Special Olympics, and working as a caretaker for individuals with developmental disabilities. In her work with Cow Tipping, Rachel finds tangible and inspiring possibilities for a more inclusive and creative future: one that expects, accepts, and celebrates neurodiversity, and one that embraces greater equity for all of us.
Natalie Martell / Arts Manager
nmartell@cowtippingpress.org / 612.424.0035
Natalie Martell has lived in several different states and Canada. After earning her MFA in creative writing, she worked in direct support and managed a group home. At Cow Tipping, Natalie works to amplify our authors’ voices through book publication and arts outreach. She has always found Cow Tipping books unique, delightful, and moving, and she strives to connect them with a diverse readership. She believes that honoring and valuing neurodiversity enhances the literary landscape and society as a whole.
Shaunte Martin / Inclusion Associate
shauntemartin619@gmail.com
Shaunte Martin was born here in Minnesota. She was born in December of 1987 in Regions Hospital in the morning. She has a big family of a lot of nieces and nephews. She likes to go to the state capitol and going bowling with her family and friends.
Maeve McDevitt / Inclusion Associatemaeve0601@gmail.com Maeve McDevitt is a young woman who wishes she could time travel to times of past years especially the 1920s (only to visit). For now she gets to live in a different time as she writes a historical fiction novel about a Deaf woman living during the 1920s and 1930s and has to put up with living in the modern world ugh. She is a curious soul who loves not only history and antique/vintage items but traveling,cooking,hanging out with friends,family and boyfriend, is an animal lover and last not least enjoys reading books and writing stories.
Apprentices
Ethan Bussiere / Teaching Apprentice
Ethan Bussiere loves to write fantasy short stories. He also likes to write poems and lyrics. He feels his writing comes from his vast imagination. He can’t keep his mind quiet, so why not write it?
Doug Crill / Teaching Apprentice
Doug Crill is an actor. Doug Joseph Crill is in The Amazing Dream Coat. He is a dreamer. He likes bright colors.
Sean Craven / Teaching Apprentice
Sean Craven was born and raised in Minnesota and he’s still not used to the winters. His interests include reading, writing, video games, and barbeque. He is now quadruple-published by Cow Tipping Press as he continues to live out his own words from one of his first books, Glorious Moments in Hell!
Amber Fisher / Teaching Apprentice
Amber Fisher’s favorite movie is My Girl. Daisy loves butterflies and is in the chrysalis phase of her metamorphosis. She loves to write, sew, and crank the dance music when she cleans. She is glad that she is an artist and that she can share that skill and past-time with others, especially with people who are hurting.
Davida Kilgore / Teaching Apprentice
Dee Kilgore has been writing since she was 6 years old and she’s 67 now. She’s been publishing for the past 37 years. Writing is who she is as well as what she does. Writing has saved her life.
Katie McDermott / Teaching Apprentice
Katie McDermott is an Advocate Associate at the Arc Minnesota. Her Fur babies Charlie and Gizmo. Self- Advocacy is her passion this what she loves to-do.
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