My primary research area examines civic media production (media created with the intent of civic participation) to facilitate self-empowerment, agency and civic engagement within historically marginalized populations. This focus has threaded through my master’s thesis, doctoral dissertation, and most recently through an initiative entitled the Salem Civic Media Project. Implemented through a collaboration with the…

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This area of research focuses on the relationship between civic media (media created with the intent of civic participation) and self-empowerment, agency, and civic engagement within historically marginalized populations. Throughout the project descriptions below, you will see a variety of similar terms used: civic media, participatory media, community media, and citizens’ media. My examination of…

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Critically Engaged Civic Learning This research area contributes to a longstanding conversation about the implementation of service-learning by proposing an updated revision for the 21st century: critically-engaged civic learning (CECL). The term service-learning is problematic as it invokes inequitable power dynamics that inherently privilege one group over another, with more privileged groups providing “service” to…

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The New England Equity & Engagement Consortium was co-created in 2019, funded through two Massachusetts Department of Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) grants. The grants served to support work that diversifies the professoriate and provides anti-racist and community engaged professional development for faculty. This work continues today and is done as a multi-campus initiative along…

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My curriculum vitae includes my academic and professional work in public relations. Click here to see my full CV or to download a copy.

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