Activism and Social Justice Division
The Activism and Social Justice Division promotes scholarship (research and teaching) that explores relationships among communication, activism, and social justice. Activism and social justice scholarship ranges from explorations of researcher-activists and teacher-activists employing their communication resources (e.g., theories, methods, pedagogies, and other practices) in collaboration with community members whose lives are affected by oppression, domination, discrimination, and other sociopolitical struggles due to differences in race, gender, class, sexual orientation, age, ability, religion, and other identity markers, and/or with justice-oriented groups, organizations, and social movements to intervene into and reconstruct unjust discourses in more just ways, to analyses of communication enacted by activist individuals, groups, and/or organizations to promote social justice. The division welcomes conceptual, theoretical, methodological, empirical, and exploratory/experimental work about, and encourages dialogue, discussion, debate, and performance of, communication, activism, and social justice.
2025 NCA Positions
- Legislative Assembly
- Jasmine Austin, Texas State University
- Leandra Hernandez, The University of Utah
- Alex Rister, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- NCA Nominating Committee
- Jasmine Austin, Texas State University
2025 Interest Group Leadership
- Chair: Leandra Hernandez, The University of Utah
- Vice Chair: Alex Rister, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Vice Chair-Elect: Cassidy Ellis, University of Cincinnati
- Immediate Past Chair: Jasmine Austin, Texas State University
- Secretary: Curtis Ladrillo Chamblee, The University of Memphis
Graduate Student Committee Purpose and Leadership
The purpose of the ASJD Graduate Student Committee (GSC) is to serve as a collaborative network for graduate students; to support grad students in advocacy for social justice through teaching, research, and service; and to facilitate connections between grad students and practitioners in their associated fields of study as well as between grad students and faculty within the Division.
- Chair: Zane Austin Willard, University of South Florida
- Vice-Chair: Jorlanditha T. Austin, Rutgers University
- Communications Coordinator: Curtis Ladrillo Chamblee, The University of Memphis