Colleen Getty is Founder and Director of The Room to Write, a nonprofit that supports local writers and illustrators by providing space and opportunity to connect and grow within a creative community. As a former college admissions counselor, middle school English Language Arts teacher, and a founding member of the Boys & Girls Club of Wakefield she is dedicated to helping individuals grow into the best versions of themselves. Colleen is a member of the Society for Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Mass State Poetry Society and the Wakefield Cultural Council. She holds a Master of Arts in English from Salem State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with an English minor from Framingham State University. Colleen lives just outside of Boston with her husband, George, and their four young children.

Colleen & ExchangeNation: My father grew up in the projects of Charlestown, MA. My cousins farm and raise cattle in Alberta, Canada. I am grateful to be part of a team with a mission to help people within our United States to experience what I have personally grown to understand, which is that people can be kind, scared, creative, shy, funny, awkward, brilliant, and no matter the road they travel—paved interstate or dirt road—people will always be 100% human being like me and like you.