Meet the Fandom Consultants Cheryl Ingram Consulting: Doctor Who, Glee, The Dark Knight Trilogy Cheryl is a CO for Charleston, SC’s Society for the Promotion of Equality and Wonderment! Data Analyst by day, she also tutors reading and math, does shadowcasting for Rocky Horror, cosplays, sings, dances (in public without any music), and devours almost anything scifi, fantasy, or horror related thrown her way. She fell in love with Harry in middle school just before the 3rd book came out and has dressed up as Hermione Granger every year since! A major Whovian as well, she helped start the Chuck Town Who Crew (which actually makes up a lot of SPEW, too!). In a fight between Spider-Man and Harry Potter, she thinks Spidey would win, but mostly because Harry would be too busy laughing at his jokes to cast any spells.
Dana Ettinger Consulting: The Hunger Games, Doctor Who, Percy Jackson and the Olympians Dana is a high school senior trying to avoid the onset of post-college acceptance senioritis. She has been a Whovian since last January, and is excited to have finally caught up to the new episodes. She discovered Percy Jackson in middle school, around the same time she was studying Greek mythology in English class. She may or may not have used knowledge gained from Percy Jackson on tests. Her chapter is the MHS Rowling Stones, which is in the process of trying to partner with other fan-based clubs at her school such as Doctor Who club, Brony Club and Anime club for Imagine Better. She knows the Tollhouse Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe by heart and hopes to join the Quidditch team at college next year. Her proudest achievement is converting her mother into a fellow Whovian.
Dorothy Kilvington Consulting: The Hobbit/Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Avengers DK is a freshman at Lansing Community College, general lover of everything, and CO for the Noble and Most Ancient House of Awesome. They enjoy too many things to list, most of all food, anime, and helping others. They’ve been obsessed with books their whole life, and grew up with a copy of the complete Chronicles of Narnia attached at their hip. Their favourite book in the series is A Horse and His Boy. In addition to TCoN, they also consider themselves a big fan of The Avengers, The Hunger Games, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Doctor Who, and several other bodies of media.
Hannah Froemming Consulting: Doctor Who, Percy Jackson and the Olympians Hannah is a special education assistant in Oregon, a wanna-be artist and writer, and the CO for Dumbledore’s Army of Lane County. She is always a little late to the party, and so was able to read all the Percy Jackson books at once, just like she did with the Harry Potter series. Percy Jackson is fascinating to Hannah because the books have characters with whom kids with learning disabilities and kids with nonnuclear families can identify. She loves Doctor Who for its mix of silly and serious and rages against a reality in which she cannot travel in time and space. Hannah has a (nearly) full sized TARDIS in her living room that she built herself.
Janae Phillips Consulting: Doctor Who, Once Upon a Time Janae is a senior at the University of Arizona, where she is the CO for the UAHPA. At this point in her college career she’s a full time student almost entirely so that she can keep doing all of her extracurriculars. She’s a Whovian and a Oncer for much the same reason: both shows are all about the people behind the fairy tales (even the intergalactic ones). In her spare time Janae is an indie Internet game developer, which is code for “spends far too much time on the Internet.”
Get Involved with Imagine Better Here are three ways you can participate: 1. Be an Imagine Better chapter Contact Becca and Pam (find their email addresses on the last page). Please put “Imagine Better Chapter” in the subject line. 2. Curriculums in beta We are currently looking for chapters to help us test out our “Harry Potter as a Tool for Social Change” and “The Hunger Games as a Tool for Social Change” curriculums. These are multi-week discussions on the two series. If you’re interested in testing either one or if you ’d like more information, please contact Pam. 3. Become a fandom consultant The Imagine Better Team is always on the lookout for fandom-savvy COs to help us create resources. If you’d like to join our team of fandom consultants, please contact Pam. Please specify which fandoms you would be interested in consulting for. Please note: we are not accepting fandom consultants for The Hunger Games and Doctor Who at this time.