Katherine Makepeace is a senior at Elon University, working toward her BA in both Literature and Professional Writing & Rhetoric. She is also a Writing Center Consultant, and enjoys collaborating with her peers on a spectrum of textual genres and research projects. Growing up in the rural mountains surrounding Asheville, N.C. Katherine cultivated a passion for exploration and the outdoors that she was ecstatic to indulge throughout her research for the Mountain Group. In the near future, she also looks forward to applying her writing, editing, and design skills in the publishing or copywriting fields.