This Monday, the women and literacy listserv will be closed. Therefore,
I wanted to take this opportunity to extend to each and every one of you
a very sincere thank you for participating in each of your own ways.
Some of you I have "known" since 1999, when we started on this listserv
journey together, and others of you I have only recently had the
pleasure to "meet." I feel like we have been through a lot together, and
I was touched by the honest sharing, empathy, compassion, interest,
willingness to help, courage to throw out questions, and desire to reach
out to others on this listserv. There are two special people that I want
to acknowledge as I say my good bye:
First and foremost is Jaleh Behroozi Soroui. Without her courage,
persistence, and never-ending fight for what is right, this listserv
would not have come into fruition. She championed the cause of women and
literacy right from the start, and always pushed for us to have a home
in NIFL. She taught me how to fight for my beliefs, how to never give
up, and how to always ask questions, even when the questions are
uncomfortable ones. To this day, she is one of my role models. 
I would also like to thank David Rosen. In the early days, before I
became a facilitator, he encouraged me to join his listserv. I was
nervous, finally joined, and then stayed as a lurker for a long time,
until with his gentle encouragement started to post emails. It is
because of him that I started on my listserv journey, and it is because
of him that I gained the courage to finally one day, when the
opportunity arose, become a listserv moderator. His advice helped me
when I made mistakes (and I made quite a few in the early days), and I
continue to value his opinion when an issue arises.
To all of you, thank you, thank you, thank you. This listserv has added
richness to my personal and professional life. I look forward to
continuing the next phase of my listserv journey on the poverty race
women and literacy listserv with you. If you do not decide to join, then
I wish you the best, and maybe our paths will connect in some other
arena.
Daphne

Daphne Greenberg
Assistant Professor
Educational Psych. & Special Ed.
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3979
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3979
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg at gsu.edu

Daphne Greenberg
Associate Director
Center for the Study of Adult Literacy
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 3977
Atlanta, Georgia 30302-3977
phone: 404-651-0127
fax:404-651-4901
dgreenberg at gsu.edu