Dr. Loren Gaudet is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Academic and Technical Writing Program at the University of Victoria. Her research and teaching focuses on first-year writing, specifically, fostering belonging in the writing classroom by leveraging existing institutional resources, and on the rhetoric of health and medicine, specifically, the rhetorical history of Lyme disease. Her academic work has appeared in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie, BMJ's Medical Humanities, Health, and the Journal of Medical Humanities. She has also co-authored open educational resources including sections of STEM Writing Resources for Learning (ScWRL) and Why Write? A Guide for Students in Canada.