Teresa Savage is an associate Dean at the College of Communications, University of Illinois-Urbana. She has served as a project consultant to Walt Disney's Buena Vista Home Video, the US Standards on English/Language Arts, and Head Start. A former teacher, she is a published poet and fiction writer. She co-founded Softchalk Learning Systems, Inc., a technology company devoted to the education of young children. She has two children whom she taught to read and count at home as preschoolers. Teresa Savage lives in Urbana, Illinois.
