Faculty Advisory Board for LPH presents a Professional Panel of Communication Practitioners from across the U.S.
January 30 @ 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm UTC+0
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Various communication professionals will provide a discussion of their journey to their current position and also discuss their specific field of practice.
Learning Outcomes:
- To identify a variety of communication-oriented positions that one can do with a communication degree.
- To recognize and understand that journeys after college are often not straight, but are curved and often not what is expected.
- To connect with and potentially gain connections with communication professionals in many different careers that make up the communication field.
Speakers:
- Marcus Liem, Public Relations Director, Boston Consulting Group
- Elizabeth Gentry, Social Strategist + Digital Content Creator, Theater Under the Stars
- Molly Stoltz, Project Manager, United States Federal Government
- Claire St. Amant, Podcaster of Final Days on Earth, former investigative journalist, and author of “Killer Story”
Moderator (Event Coordinator or Other Council Member): Nancy Benton Parish, Texas A&M University
Program Outline:
- Topic & Speaker Introduction (10 minutes)
- Presentation One (15 minutes)
- Title: A career as a consultant
- Description: To discuss my background from a communication major to my master’s degree to working in public relations at various companies.
- Speaker: Marcus Liem
- Presentation Two (15 minutes)
- Title: From being a professor of communication to a practitioner with the Federal Government
- Description: To discuss my background from a BA in communication thru a PhD in communication and how my education degree has provided me an opportunity to work with the federal government.
- Speaker: Molly Stoltz
- Presentation Three (15 minutes)
- Title: From college student to social media marketer
- Description: Discuss the roles of social media marketing and my career trajectory
- Speaker: Elizabeth Gentry
- Presentation Four (15 minutes)
- Title: My journey as an Investigative Journalists to Podcaster and book author
- Description: To discuss my journey of being a investigative reporter, to investigating crime and working with CBS’s 2020 other similar news programs to podcasting and beyond.
- Speaker: Claire St. Amant
- Q&A & Wrap-Up (20 minutes)
2025 VLO Archive
Tina M. Harris, NCA First Vice President, Louisiana State University
Jeanetta D. Sims, NCA President, University of Central Oklahoma
You spoke and we listened. More than 460 NCA members responded to NCA’s member survey and expressed a desire for healing, encouragement, and emotional support. You’ll enjoy this space to learn strategies for keeping ourselves sane, tips for coping, and vehicles of community critical to our well-being.
Moderator: John M. Sloop, Vanderbilt University
Tara Cyphers, Acquisitions Editor, Ohio State University Press
Aurora Bell, Acquisitions Editor, University of South Carolina Press
Kristen Hop, Acquisitions Editor, University of Alabama Press
Archna Patel, Acquisitions Editor, Pennsylvania State University Press
Judith Lakamper, Senior Acquisitions Editor, Michigan State University Press
Panelists will talk about their research projects, discuss the role of the grant in their research and careers, and provide advice to future applicants about how to best position their work for the award. Funded projects to be discussed include Communication as Currency: Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study of a Non-Profit Financial Literacy Program for Low Income Families, Using Culture Centered Approach to Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy Among Marginalized Pakhtun Community in Pakistan, Developing and Testing a Communication Skills Training Program to Improve Pediatricians’ Conversations about Medical Uncertainty, and Black Lives Matter: Perspectives from the Ground.
Moderator: Benjamin R. Warner, University of Missouri
Angela Gist-Mackey, University of Kansas
Sayyed Fawad Shah, Auburn University
Charee Thompson, University of Illinois
Andre Johnson, University of Memphis
Panelists will talk about their research projects, discuss the role of the grant in their research and careers, and provide advice to future applicants about how to best position their work for the award. Funded projects to be discussed include Communication as Currency: Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study of a Non-Profit Financial Literacy Program for Low Income Families, Using Culture Centered Approach to Reduce Vaccine Hesitancy Among Marginalized Pakhtun Community in Pakistan, Developing and Testing a Communication Skills Training Program to Improve Pediatricians’ Conversations about Medical Uncertainty, and Black Lives Matter: Perspectives from the Ground.
In this VLO, registrants will learn how to create an inclusive classroom environment in the current political climate, understand the relationship between risks to individuals and risks to institutions, and about strategies for promoting public pedagogy in an era of misinformation.
Speakers:
- Michael Lechuga, The University of New Mexico
- Shauntae Brown White, North Carolina Central University
- Angela Kariotis, Brookdale Community College
- Moderator: Katherine Thweatt, SUNY Oswego
The rapid rise of authoritarianism in the United States is the problem of power, but also of culture and communication. That is why the field of communication studies has a unique responsibility in developing communicative strategies to counter authoritarian rhetorics and fictions. To do that, however, we need to understand the thorough line between the current authoritarian turn in the US, the rise of authoritarianism in Europe, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This virtual learning opportunity will feature Ukrainian, European, North American, and Russian scholars who will address and analyze the ways in which rhetorics of land, peace, and identity have been weaponized by Russia against Ukraine; translated into the larger European geo-political contexts, and strategically adopted to organize the authoritarian thought in the United States. We will argue that understanding the Ukrainian invasion and Russian neo-imperialism within a larger European context is essential to creating a robust response to authoritarianism in North America.
Speakers:
- Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Colorado State University
- David Boromisza-Habashi, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Zenia Kish, Ontario Tech University
- Marina Levina, University of Memphis
- Moderator: Marina Levina, The University of Memphis
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