Iowa Youth Writing Project Director Mal Hellman has been recognized as one of ten people who make the Iowa City/Coralville community a better place.

From the Convention and Visitors Bureau Annual Report: 

"The idea for our Bravo Awards, introduced for the first time in 2015, is to acknowledge individuals who are making our entire community a better place to live, work, and visit. They inspire the rest of us to work harder and notably contribute to the reason we love this community. These residents and leaders add an intangible quality to our area that makes it unlike any other place. They give us confidence in our people and pride in our workplaces, homes and the places we frequent. This is a nod to those folks, who take action for the greater good - and to whom we say thank you.

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Mallory [Hellman] is the director of the Iowa Youth Writing Project, and in her short time at the helm of the organization, she has infected it with her energy and enthusiasm. She is a graduate of Harvard University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop who also has taught at Indiana University. In the Corridor, Mallory has led writing workshops for students at Johnson Elementary in Cedar Rapids, Tate High School, and the Iowa Juvenile Home. She also writes herself, with essays, stories in several publications. Before becoming director of IYWP in 2015, Mallory worked with the organization as an instructor and site coordinator."

The Iowa Youth Writing Project (IYWP) is a K-12 literary outreach non-profit collective founded in 2010 by University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduates. The IYWP joined the College of Liberal Arts & Science’s Frank N. Magid Center for Undergraduate Writing in 2012. Since then, it has strived to bring together the University’s faculty, students, and staff with the common goal of social good by creating a truly collaborative, interdepartmental volunteer language arts outreach initiative that impacts the lives of a substantial portion of the state’s youth while also reenergizing the vibrant volunteer base within the University.