Envisioning More Equitable and Just Futures: Feminist Organizational Communication in Theory and Praxis
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Jasmine R. Linabary (PhD, Purdue University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication & Theatre at Emporia State University. Her research focuses on organizing for social change, new media, and feminist and participatory methodologies.
Joëlle M. Cruz (PhD, Texas A&M University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Her research focuses on decolonial approaches, alternative organizing, and African feminist approaches.
Brenda J. Allen (PhD, Howard University) is a Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver.
Jed August Chalupa (PhD Student, Texas A&M University) is a current Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. His research focuses on dialogue and deliberation and the intersections of collective identity with queer theory.
Sarah E. Dempsey (PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on voice and representation, nonprofit organizing, critical theories of work, and food politics.
Cerise L. Glenn (PhD, Howard University) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research focuses on intersectional identities, institutional equity, diversity, and inclusion, as well as career socialization of underrepresented groups in higher education.
Kate Lockwood Harris (PhD, University of Colorado, Boulder) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Harris researches the relationship between violence and communication and focuses especially on how sexual violence intersects with multiple forms of difference and inequity.
Ziyu Long (PhD, Purdue University) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on career and intersectionality, entrepreneurship, and workplace resistance and resilience.
James McDonald (PhD, University of Colorado Boulder) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His research focuses on identity and difference in organizational contexts, feminist and queer approaches to organizing, and researcher reflexivity in qualitative research.
Samira Musleh (PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) is a doctoral candidate and graduate instructor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research focuses on unpaid labor, decolonial and materialist feminism, Islamic epistemology, and modernity/coloniality/secularity.
Fitri H. Oktaviani (PhD Candidate, University of Queensland) is a PhD student and Casual Academic in the School of Business at the University of Queensland, Australia, and a lecturer at the Department of Communication at Brawijaya University, Indonesia. Her research focuses on non-Western femininity and the contestation of women as leaders in Muslim society.
Patricia S. Parker (PhD, University of Texas at Austin) is Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she is also an Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research. Her community-engaged research focuses on social justice leadership and decolonizing organizational processes.
Francesca Sobande (PhD, University of Dundee) is a Lecturer in Digital Media Studies at the School of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University, Wales. Her research focuses on digital culture, Black diaspora, Black feminism, creative work, and the media experiences of Black women in Britain.
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