Tamar Bernfeld is an assistant director in the Center for Teaching (CfT) where she works with undergraduate students, graduate students, staff and faculty to support effective teaching at the University of Iowa. Among her projects in the CfT, Tamar leads the Students as Partners program, which pairs undergraduate students with faculty to bring student voice and student perspectives into course design and implementation. At the University of Iowa, Tamar has taught courses in English as a Second Language (ESL), Rhetoric, as well as Approaches to Teaching Writing and Language and Learning in the College of Education. Currently Tamar teaches a First Gen Hawks Seminar and a General Education course, World Englishes, in Linguistics. Her scholarly interests include writing pedagogy and language ideology in educational spaces. Anne Frank's writing resonates with Tamar, who believes that storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to reach people, connect with our shared human experience, and develop awareness and empathy.