The workshop is called Runaway with Words. It is based on a program from Florida State University in Tallahassee where von Ammon, then a graduate student, helped her professor Joann Gardner develop the program.
College students get to try their hand at teaching while doing some civic good.
Combining learning with community service is called service-learning. Von Ammon attended a statewide service-learning conference this month. She has presented nationally on the concept of writing students working with writers in prisons, detention centers, schools and other social programs, to effect social change. Von Ammon joined Lane in 1998. How To Take It With You.