MA in Strategic Communication Faculty

Email: sarah.bishop@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: 646-312-3978
Location: NVC 4-288

Sarah C. Bishop is the author of A Story To Save Your Life: Communication and Culture in Migrants’ Search for Asylum (Available Summer 2022, Columbia University Press). She has also authored Undocumented Storytellers: Narrating the Immigrant Rights Movement (Oxford, 2019), which won the Outstanding Book of the Year Award from the Intercultural Communication Division and the Best Book Award from the American Studies Division of the National Communication Association, and U.S. Media and Migration: Refugee Oral Histories (Routledge, 2016), which won the 2017 Sue DeWine Distinguished Scholarly Book Award. Professor Bishop specializes in research about storytelling, global communication, and migration to the United States using methods of oral history and critical media analysis.

At Baruch, Dr. Bishop teaches in the Department of Communication Studies, the Macaulay Honors College, and the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. She offers graduate and undergraduate courses in areas such as Advocacy, Gender/Race/Ethnicity in Communication, Media and Migration, Global Communication, and Privilege/Power/Difference. Her classes prioritize inclusive pedagogy, emotional intelligence, and participatory facilitation.

Professor Bishop’s recent research has been supported by the Bosch Foundation, the Advanced Research Collaborative Fellowship at the CUNY Graduate Center, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University, The Schlesinger Library at Harvard University, the Waterhouse Family Institute for the Study of Communication and Society at Villanova University, The Center for Intercultural Dialogue, the Urban Communication Foundation, the ZeMKI Center for Media, Communication, and Information  at the University of Bremen, the Abraham J Briloff Prize in Ethics, the Eugene M. Lang Foundation, the Diversity Projects Development Fund, and the Faculty Fellowship Publication Program at CUNY. She received a Fulbright Scholar Award to live and work in Central America during 2020-2021 to pursue a project about the U.S. asylum process.

Dr. Bishop is on the Board of Directors of Mixteca Organization, a non-profit that works to enrich, equip, and empower the Latinx community in Brooklyn and beyond. She serves as an expert witness in immigration court on asylum cases from El Salvador.

Recent Publications

“Intercultural Communication, the Influence of Trauma, and the Pursuit of Asylum in the United States.” Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 8, no. 2 (2021): 187-208.

“‘What Does a Torture Survivor Look Like?’ Nonverbal Communication in Asylum Interviews and Hearings.” Journal of International and Intercultural Communication (2021): 1-20.

“Relational Tensions, Narrative, and Materiality: Intergenerational Communication in Families with Undocumented Immigrant Parents.” Co-authored with Dr. Caryn Medved. Journal of Applied Communication Research 48, no. 2 (2020): 227-247.

“An International Analysis of Governmental Media Campaigns to Deter Asylum Seekers.” International Journal of Communication 14 (2020): 1092–1114.

“Contact Isn’t Enough: Attitudes towards and Misunderstandings about Undocumented Immigrants among a Diverse College Population.” Co-authored with Dr. Nicholas Bowman. Ethnic and Racial Studies 43, no. 6 (2019): 1052-1071.

Undocumented Storytellers: Narrating the Immigrant Rights Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.

“Nobody Can Take Our Story: Competing Representational Narratives of Immigrants without Legal Status.” Communication & Society 31, no. 3 (2018): 159-173.

“(Un)documented Immigrant Media Makers and the Search for Connection Online.” Critical Studies in Media Communication 34, no. 5 (2017): 415-31.

“Model Citizens: The Making of an American Throughout the Naturalization Process.” Communication, Culture & Critique 10, no. 3 (2017): 479-498.

“Undocumented Women.” Equality Archive, July 2017.

U.S. Media and Migration: Refugee Oral Histories. New York, NY: Routledge, 2016.

“United We Stand? Negotiating Space and National Memory in the 9/11 Arizona Memorial.” Space & Culture 19, no. 4 (2016): 502-511.

“Planning, Conducting, and Writing Multi-Sited, Multi-Lingual Research with Survivors of Torture.” Journal of Applied Communication Research 43, no. 3 (2015): 357-362.

“‘I’m Only Going to Do it if I Can Do it in Character’: Unpacking Comedy and Advocacy in Stephen Colbert’s 2010 Congressional Testimony.” Journal of Popular Culture 48, no. 3 (2015): 548-557.

“Welcome Home: Examining Power and Representation in the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services’ Guide for New Immigrants.” Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 42, no. 2 (2013): 155-171.

“The Rhetoric of Study Abroad: Perpetuating Expectations and Results Through Technological Enframing.” Journal of Studies in International Education 17, no. 4 (2013): 398-413.

“Use of Aggressive Humor: Aggressive Humor Style, Verbal Aggressiveness, and Social Dominance Orientation.” Co-authored with Yang Lin and Patricia Hill. Ohio Communication Journal 50 (2013): 73-82.

Email: valerie.biwa@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: 646-312-3720
Location: NVC 4-288

Valerie Biwa is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Baruch College, CUNY.  Professor Biwa is an intercultural communication scholar with research interests in global-centric issues stemming from globalization, cross-continental travel, and the intermingling of culturally, ethnically, and racially different peoples. She specializes in research about immigrant and sojourner adaptation and identity transformation. She is interested in examining acculturation and integration, multiple adaptation, and re-entry/re-acculturation and how these processes of adapting to receiving and homeland cultures cause identity conflict and facilitate changes in individuals’ cultural identities. Her foci are multicultural, cosmopolitan, and transnational identities. Professor Biwa also examines issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations with a special focus on women and female leadership.

Before pursuing an academic career, Professor Biwa worked in sales and marketing for Proctor & Gamble and Reckitt Benckiser in the FMCG industry in Namibia. Professor Biwa holds a B.A. and M.A. in Communication from Eastern Michigan University and a Ph.D. in Communication from The University of Oklahoma. At Baruch College, Dr. Biwa teaches undergraduate courses at the intersection of communication and culture and graduate courses in qualitative research methods.

Stuart Davis is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at Baruch College. His interests include social movement communication (with a specific focus on protests and mass mobilizations); theorizations and mobilizations of “citizenship” in digital media studies, including digital citizenship, citizen journalism, citizens’ media, and civic media; the intersections between the globalization of digital platforms and the US foreign policy agenda; and comparative media systems research (centered on Brazil, Lusophone Africa, and Mexico). He previously served as the director of the Latin American Media Studies MA concentration at Texas A&M  International University. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and a CNPq Post-Doctoral Fellow at the State University of São Paulo (UNESP). From 2005-2009 he was a MacArthur Scholar in the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change at the University of Minnesota. He received a BA in Cultural Studies from the University of North Carolina and a PhD in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas.

Since receiving his PhD in 2015, Davis has authored or co-authored over 25 articles or book chapters in journals including Communication Monographs; Communication Theory; International Journal of Communication; International Communication Gazette; Information, Communication, and Society; Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies; Digital Journalism; Development in Practice; and Journalism Practice; and collections like Civic Media: Theory, Design, Practice (2016); The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories(2017); The Pink Tide: Media and Political Power in Latin America (2017); Protests in the Information Age (2018); Mapping Citizen and Participatory Journalism in Newsrooms, Classrooms, and Beyond (2020); The Politics of Technology in Latin America, Volume 2 (2020); and Political Communication in a Time of Coronavirus (2021). He serves on the editorial boards of a number of journals including Popular Communication, Revista Comunicação Midiática (Brazil), Revista de Comunicação Dialógica (Brazil), and Global Media Journal: Mexico.

Davis is co-editor with Immanuel Ness of Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy, the first comprehensive set of case-based analyses on the deleterious impacts of economic sanctions on the commercial, public health, and communicative infrastructures within targeted states. The book features contributions from an international cohort of scholars and features country-specific analyses of US, EU, or multilateral sanctions against Venezuela, Iraq, Cuba, China, Russia, the former Yugoslavia, Syria, and more. This book is part of the “Studies in Critical Social Sciences” series. The hardback version will be published by Brill Publishers in January 2022 with the paperback published by Haymarket Books following in the next year.

He is also currently working on a book-length study tentatively titled The “Brazilian Spring” and the Poverty of Digital Activism. Based on roughly two years of fieldwork conducted in Brazilian cities (specifically Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo) during and after the June 2013 nationwide protest wave, this project takes advantage of historical hindsight to turn a critical eye on these epochal mobilizations. Organized via Facebook and other social networking services, the 2013 protests initially focused on a variety of local struggles within Brazilian cities from increases in public transportation fares to unchecked police violence to the dedication of public funds to mega-events like the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics. The sheer size of the protests led commentators (particularly within the international press and English-speaking academia) to label these demonstrations the “Brazilian Spring” and to celebrate the “revolutionary” role of digital media activism in giving a voice to Brazilian citizens. In subsequent years, however, the spark of digital protest solidified into an organized and well-funded right-wing media campaign focused first on amplifying claims of corruption against the center-left Workers’ Party administration and then on more broadly crafting a narrative around the existential threat caused by left-wing politics to the morality and  security of Brazilian society. This channeling of momentum from the 2013 protests played a significant role first in the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff in 2016 and later in the election campaign of the far-right candidate and ex-army captain Jair Bolsonaro in 2018. In a nutshell, the book attempts to establish a sometimes wandering but nonetheless consistent arrow from the “Brazilian Spring” in 2013 to the election of Bolsonaro in 2018. In the process it calls on journalists, academics, and activists to be cautious about how we embrace wide-scale protests, horizontal or “leaderless” movements, and other acts of mass insurgency.

Beyond these two projects, Davis is working on a number of articles, including an examination of the deployment of V.I. Lenin’s theories of cadre by far-right activists in Brazil (to be published in South Atlantic Quarterly); two collaborative studies on social media and federal public health strategy in Brazil during the COVID pandemic; and a series of theoretical articles excoriating the much celebrated concept of “digital citizenship”—particularly as it is mobilized in US and European academic contexts.

Davis teaches a number of required classes in the Communication Studies major including “Introduction to Communication Studies”, “Digital Communication and Culture”, and “International Communication”. He also regularly teaches in the MA in Corporate Communication program, offering “Quantitative Research Methods in Communication” once a year (usually in the fall) as well as topical courses—including a new graduate seminar entitled “Rethinking Cultures of Work”.

Finally, he is a firm believer in shared governance and the pivotal role of academic labor in resisting neoliberal austerity within and beyond the university. In this pursuit, he is currently the vice-chair of the Baruch College chapter of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), CUNY’s faculty and academic staff trade union; as well as secretary of the union’s international committee. His work with the PSC earned him a place in City and State’s 2021  “Labor 40 Under 40” power list: https://www.cityandstateny.com/power-lists/2021/03/the-2021-labor-40-under-40/175110/  

PUBLICATIONS

2022     Melissa Santillana and Stuart Davis. Freedom of the press under Andres Manuel López Obrador: The struggle between journalistic autonomy and national sovereignty. In Ruben Garcia and Sallie Hughes (eds.) Mexican Media and Politics 20 Years After the Democratic Transition. London: Palgrave-MacMillan.

2022     Stuart Davis. Economic sanctions, communication infrastructures, and the destruction of communicative sovereignty. In Davis and Ness.

2022     Jesse Bucher and Stuart Davis. Boycott and sanctions as tactics in the South African Anti-Apartheid Movement. In Davis and Ness.

2022     Stuart Davis and Immanuel Ness (eds.) Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy. Brill Publications (Hardcover)/Haymarket Books (Paperback), “Studies in Critical Social Sciences” Series.

2021      Stuart Davis. Bullshit human rights: Breitbart’s “Cartel Chronicles” and militarized framing of humanitarian crisis on the US-Mexico Border. Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2021.1985081

2021 What is Netflix imperialism? Interrogating the monopoly aspirations of the ‘World’s largest television network’. Information, Communication, & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1993955

2021      Ariadne Gonzalez, Stuart Davis, and Jiwon Kim. La Gordiloca and the vicissitudes of social media journalism on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Communication Monographs 88 (1): 71-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637751.2020.1865554

2021    Stuart Davis. More than “a little flu”: Digital advocacy journalism and the struggle for health justice in Brazil under COVID-19. In Peter van Aelst and Jay Blumler (eds.). Political Communication in the Time of Coronavirus. New York: Routledge.

2020     Stuart Davis and Melissa Santillana. Speaking for communities and against  oppression: Digital media responses to COVID-19 within marginalized  communities of Brazil and Mexico. In David Plascencia Ramirez and Avery Glaw (eds.). The Politics of Technology in Latin America, Volume 02. New York: Routledge.

2020      Stuart Davis. Citizen health journalism. In Melissa Wall (ed.) Mapping Citizen and Participatory Journalism in Newsrooms, Classrooms, and Beyond. New York: Routledge

2020      Stuart Davis. Intellectual property. In Sarah Corona Berkin, Sebastian Tees, and Jose Carlos Lozano Rendon. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook to Culture and Media of the Americas, Part II: Media and Visual Culture. New York: Routledge, pp. 347-353.

2019      Stuart Davis and Joe Straubhaar. Producing Antipetismo: Social media activism and the ascendance of the radical right in contemporary Brazilian politics. International Communication Gazette 82 (1): 82-100. https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048519880731

2019      Stuart Davis and Melissa Santillana. From the street to the screen to nowhere: Las Morras and the fragility of networked digital activism. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture. 14 (1): 18-32. https://www.westminsterpapers.org/articles/10.16997/wpcc.308/

2018      Stuart Davis. Digital archives as subaltern counter-histories: Situating “Favela Tem Memória” in the Rio de Janeiro media and political landscape. Digital Journalism 6(9). 1255-1269. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2018.1510738

2018      Joe Straubhaar and Stuart Davis. Drumming for social change: Music, identity formation, and transformative empowerment in Afro-Brazilian community development. Development in Practice 18 (3). 345-357. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2018.1435628

2018      Tucker Landesman and Stuart Davis. Cracks and reformations in the Brazilian mediascape: MídiaNINJA, radical citizen journalism, and resistance in Rio de Janeiro. In Lucas  Melgaço and Jeffrey Monaghan (eds.). Protests in the Information Age: Social Movements, Digital Practices, and Surveillance. New York: Routledge, pp. 56-73.

2017      Summer Harlow and Stuart Davis. Alternative media in Pink Tide Latin America: Reframing producers’ relationships to political parties. In Lee Artz (ed.). The Pink Tide: Media Access and Political Power in Latin America. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 131-151.

2017      Stuart Davis. Citizen health journalism: Negotiating between political engagement and professional identity in a media training program for healthcare workers. Journalism Practice 10 (8-9): 319-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2016.1230022

2017      Stuart Davis, Martha Fuentes-Batista, Joe Straubhaar, and Jeremiah Spence. The social shaping of the Brazilian Internet: Historicizing the interactions between states, corporations, and NGOs in Information and Communication Technology development and diffusion.  In Gerard Goggin and Mark McClelland (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories. London: Routledge, pp. 120-136.

2016      Stuart Davis, Joe Straubhaar, and Isabel Ferin Cunha. The construction of a transnational Lusophone media space: A historiographic analysis. Popular Communication: International Journal of Media and Culture 14 (4): 212-223. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2016.1222614

2016      Stuart Davis. MídiaNINJA and the rise of citizen journalism in Brazil. In Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailides (eds.). Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 527-532.

2016      Stuart Davis. Slowing down media coverage on the US-Mexico border: News as sociological critique in the Borderland project. Digital Journalism. 4(4): 462-477. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2015.1123101

2016      Stuart Davis. Relocating development communication: Social entrepreneurship, international networking, and south-south cooperation in the Viva Rio NGO. International Journal of Communication, 10: 42-60. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/3966

2015      Stuart Davis and Felipe de Oliveira Mateus. Literacia além da mídia. Revista Comunicação Midiática 10(3): 11-21.

2015      Stuart Davis, Lucia Palmer, and Julian Etienne Gonzalez.  The geography of digital literacy: Mapping communications technology training programs in Austin, Texas. In Brasilena Pasirrelli and Antonia Cuevos Cerveró (eds.). Comparative Approaches to the Digital Revolution in Europe and the Americas. Philadelphia, PA: Idea Group Publishing, pp. 370-384.

2015      Stuart Davis. Citizens’ media in the favelas: Finding a place for digital media production in social change processes. Communication Theory, 25(2): 230-243. https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12069

2013      Lisa Hartenberger, Zeynep Tufekci, and Stuart Davis. A history of high tech and the technopolis in Austin, Texas. In Joe Straubhaar, Jeremiah Spence, Zeynep Tufekci, and Roberta Lentz (eds.) Inequity in the Technopolis: Race, Class, and the Digital Divide in Austin, Texas. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, pp. 124-159.

2012      Laura Stein, Tonya Notley, and Stuart Davis. Transnational networking and capacity building for communication activism. Global Media Journal: Australia. 6(2).

Email: Eric.Gander@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: 646-312-3733
Location: NVC 8-234

Eric M. Gander is Associate Professor of Public Argument in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, CUNY. He earned a B.A. in Economics and an M.A. in Rhetoric and Communication Studies from the University of Virginia, and a PhD in Communication Studies from Northwestern University.

His research focuses on improving public argument by critiquing public discussion and debate on a wide range of issues in domains like science, political philosophy, law, and ethics. He is the author of several books, including On Our Minds: How Evolutionary Psychology is Reshaping the Nature versus Nurture Debate, published in 2003 by Johns Hopkins University Press. The Harvard evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker has described On Our Minds as “lucid and thought-provoking…clear and lively enough to interest a general audience, while containing novel analyses that should be considered by the specialists.” Click here for a short description of the book. Click here for an interview with the author. Professor Gander is also the author of The Last Conceptual Revolution: A Critique of Richard Rorty’s Political Philosophy, published in 1999 by SUNY Press, as well as numerous articles, book reviews, and convention papers. His work has appeared in both the academic and popular press, including The Journal of Communication Studies, The University of Illinois Law Review, and The New York Times. He has also appeared on various television talk shows as an expert commentator on political and social issues.

Professor Gander teaches undergraduate courses in Persuasion, Argumentation and Debate, and Communication Law and Free Speech. He teaches graduate courses in Theories of Persuasion, and Legal and Ethical Issues in Corporate Communication.

Recent Publications

Books:

On Our Minds: How Evolutionary Psychology is Reshaping the Nature versus Nurture Debate (Baltimore, MD.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)

The Last Conceptual Revolution: A Critique of Richard Rorty’s Political Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999). Published in both SUNY’s series on The Philosophy of the Social Sciences and their series on Speech Communication.

Other Selected Publications:

“Adapted Arguments: Logic and Rhetoric in the Age of Genes and Hardwired Brains,” in Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, eds., Frans H. van Eemeren, J. Anthony Blair, Charles Williard, A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans (Amsterdam: Sic Sat, 2003), pp. 355-59.

“Civil liberty versus Civil Liability: Robert O’Neil Defends the First Amendment,” The University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2002, No. 5, pp. 1321-43. (This article is available on Lexis-Nexis.)

“Prophecy as Argument: A Haunting Vision of America’s Future,” in Argument at Century’s End: Reflecting on the Past and Envisioning the Future, ed., Thomas A. Hollihan (Annandale, VA: National Communication Association, 1999). 369-75.

“Answering Hitler: A Discussion of What Liberals Must Believe About Persuasion,” in Argumentation and Values: Proceedings of the Ninth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, ed., Sally Jackson (Annandale, VA: Speech Communication Association, 1995), 501-04.

“Time to Vote, But Not With a Fist,” The New York Times, October 30, 1994, p. C17. (This article is available on Lexis-Nexis.)

“Rendezvous at the End of History: Francis Fukuyama and Richard Rorty on Liberal-Democratic Politics,” in Argument and the Postmodern Challenge: Proceedings of the Eighth SCA/AFA Conference on Argumentation, ed., Raymie E. McKerrow (Annandale, VA: Speech Communication Association, 1993), 314-20.

“Bill Clinton and the `R’ Words: The Presidential Nominee’s Acceptance Address,” Journal of Communication Studies, Fall 1993, 1-10.

“Torturers and Aesthetes: On Richard Rorty’s Concept of the Self,” ellipsis: a journal of postmodern studies, Fall 1991, 167-91.

“Perry Mason, Esquire and Postmodern: The Case of Critical Legal Theory and Arguments Against Argument,” in Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Argumentation, ed., Frans H. van Eemeren (International Centre for the Study of Argumentation: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1991), 820-27.

“Habermas on Habermas: The Perils of Communicative Action in Our Postmodern Age,” 1989. ERIC Publication, ED 312699.

Email: allison.hahn@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: 646-312-3720
Location: NVC 7-216

Allison Hailey Hahn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, CUNY. She earned a B.A. in Africana Studies, Anthropology, and Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. She was then a Fulbright Research Fellow at the National University of Mongolia, Department of Political Science. After returning to the United States, she earned a Masters of International Development (MID) in Development Planning and Environmental Sustainability and a PhD in Communication from the University of Pittsburgh.

Professor Hahn’s research investigates the argumentation and protest strategies used in environmental controversies by pastoral-nomadic communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Mongolia and China. Before coming to Baruch, Professor Hahn directed the University of Pittsburgh Mongolian Field Studies Program, which took students through China, Russia, and Mongolia. She also coached for the Mongolian National Debate Team, the William Pitt Debating Union, and the Soros Foundation Youth Forum.

At Baruch, Professor Hahn offers courses in International Communication, Organizations in International Development, Research Methodology, Global Studies Capstone, and Organizational Responses to Social Movements and Social Media.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Hahn, A. (in press). Live from the Pastures: An Analysis of Maasai YouTube Protest Videos. To appear in Media Culture and Society.

Hahn, A. (2016). Teaching Persuasion Through Personal Advocacy. Communication Teacher, 30(1).

Hahn, A. (2016). Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors. [Review of the Book Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change: The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors by Amitai, Reuven; Biran, Michal (editors)]. Nomadic Peoples, 20, 151-155.

Hahn, A. (2014). Disruptive Definition as a Method of Deterritorialization in Modern Argumentative Contexts. International Association for the Study of Argumentation 2014, University of Amsterdam and the International Association for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. July 3, 2014.

Hahn, A. (2013). Because We Once Lived There: Maasai Culture as an Argumentative Resource in the Serengeti. In Sellami, A.L. (Ed.), Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and Pedagogy: Proceedings of the 2013 4th
International Conference on Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate, and Pedagogy (pp. 25-36). Doha, January 11–13, 2013.

Hahn, A., Hahn, T., & Hobeika, O. (2013). Finding Your Voice: Novice Guide to PolicyDebate. New York: International Debate Education Association. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/4736697/Finding_
Your_Voice_A_Comprehensive_Guide_to_Collegiate_
Policy_Debate

Na’Puti, T. & Hahn, A. (2013). “Plebiscite Deliberations: Self-Determination & Deliberative Democracy in Guam,” Journal of Public Deliberation: 9:2, Article
11. Available at: http://www.publicdeliberation.net/
jpd/vol9/iss2/art11

Email: minna.logemann@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: 646-312-3720
Location: NVC 4-291

Minna Logemann is Assistant Professor of Global Corporate Communication at the Baruch College/CUNY since 2017. Her research foci comprise strategic transformations, organizational communication, and teams in global and hybrid organizations. She is interested in viewing communication as constitutive in organizing work and micro-level practices in cross-cultural and digital environments. She has published articles in English in British Journal of Educational Technology, Journal of Asian Pacific Communication, Long Range Planning, Critical Perspectives on International Business, and Journal of Organizational Ethnography and book chapters in Developments in Virtual Learning Environments and the Global Workplace (Hershey, PA: IGI Global) and Corporate Communication: Transformation of Strategy and Practice through Understanding the Influence of Intangibles, Digital Technologies, Big and Alternative Data, Uncertainty, Demographics (New York: Peter Lang); and, in Finnish language in ProComma Academic 2019 (Helsinki: ProCom, the Finnish Association of Communication Professionals). She received her doctoral degree (D. Sc. Econ.) in international business communication from Aalto University School of Business in Helsinki in 2014 and worked there as Professor of Practice 2014-2017. Since 2017, she has taught undergraduate and graduate students at Baruch College, and executives as visiting faculty in executive MA/MBA programs internationally. Her research informs her teaching of which a recent example is a cross-disciplinary collaboration project, sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning, with Professor Mary Kern from Zicklin School: Teaming at Baruch, a blogs@Baruch site offering all Baruch students tools for easier, more effective team collaboration in group assignments.
Prior joining academia 2014, she worked for 25+ years as practitioner in Finland, the UK and in the USA. She accomplished her doctoral studies while working in the position of Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, and Investor Relations in the multinational corporation KONE Corporation (Finland), and as Director, International Communications at Lutron Electronics, Inc. (PA, USA). Her experience comprises public and private companies; she has held responsibilities in investment banking, investor relations, corporate communications, marketing communications, media relations, internal communication, crisis management, and corporate sustainability.
Professor Logemann’s work in academia has been acknowledged by awards at the Academy of Management Conference Communication, Digital Technology, and Organization (CTO) Division including Best Conference PaperRunner-up in 2021 and Best Reviewer Award in 2020; Emerald Innovation Award at International Business Pedagogy Workshop at the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) in 2017; ‘Highly Commended Paper’ for Logemann, M. and Piekkari, R. (2015). Localize or local lies? The power of language and translation in the multinational corporation, Critical Perspectives on International Business, 11(1), 30-53 by Emerald Group Publishing Limited; Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation (Association for Business Communication, ABC) and Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Paper  (European Doctoral Programs Association in Management and Business Administration EDAMBA) in 2015; Top Paper award of the Social Construction Division in NCA Centennial Conference 2014.

Published articles, book chapters, and books:

Logemann, M. et al. (2022). Standing Strong Amid a Pandemic: A Global Team Project Stands up to a Real-Life Test during the Public Health Crisis. British Journal of Educational Technology, 53(3), 577-592.

Charoensap-Kelly, P., Logemann, M., & Bryant, K. (2022). Foreign-Born Instructor Humor Perception and Effects on Self-Perceived Affective and Cognitive Learning. The Journal of Asian Pacific Communication (JAPC), 37. http://doi.org/10.1075/japc.00075.cha

Logemann, M. (2021). Reimagine Your Classroom: Prepa12ring for the Global, Digital Workplace in a Virtual Teamwork Course. In S. Swartz et al. (Eds), Developments in Virtual Learning Environments and the Global Workplace, 1-23. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Hahn, A., & Logemann, M. (2020). Corporate Communication in Twenty Years: Longitudinal Study of the Developments of a Profession and Discipline. In Michael Goodman and Peter Hirsch (Eds), Corporate Communication: Transformation of Strategy and Practice, 13-23. New York: Peter Lang.

Logemann, M., Piekkari, R., & Cornelissen, J. (2019). The sense of it all: Framing and narratives in sensegiving about a strategic change, Long Range Planning, 52(5), 1-17. doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2018.10.002.

Logemann, M. (2019). Strategisesta osallistamisesta strategiseen osallistumiseen (Engl: From strategic engagement to strategic participation). In Vilma Luoma-aho and Kaisa Pekkala (Eds)  ProComma Academic 2019.

Jarventie-Thesleff, R., Logemann, M., Piekkari, R., & Tienari, J. (2016). Roles and identity work in ‘ at-home’ ethnography. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 5 (3), 235-257.

Logemann, M., & Piekkari, R. (2015). Localize or local lies? The power of language and translation in the multinational corporation. critical perspectives on international business (cpoib), 11(1), 30 -53.

Logemann, M. (2014). Strategic change under construction: Role of strategy narratives. (1799-4934 ed., vol. 216/2013, 220 pages). Helsinki: Unigrafia/Aalto University publication series: Doctoral Dissertations. Jan 11, 2014.

Mars (Logemann), M., Virtanen, M., & Virtanen, O. V. (2000). “Sijoittajaviestintä strategisena työkaluna” (Investor relations as a strategic tool). (ISBN: 9789513732493 ed., 228 pages. Helsinki: Edita. Oct 31, 2000

Email: caryn.medved@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: 646-312-3726
Location: NVC 8-242

Caryn Medved (PhD, University of Kansas) is Professor and Graduate Program Director, MA Corporate Communication. Professor Medved is a recognized expert on issues of work-life communication. She has published 30+ journal articles and book chapters during the past decades on issues such as the discourse and practices of at-home fathering, breadwinning mothers, gender and theorizing work-life, corporate family discourses, single employee experiences, undocumented immigrant family-life aspirations, among others. Currently, her new research explores the discursive and material tensions of work, career, and family in the gig economy.

Professor Medved’s scholarship has been published outlets such as Management Communication Quarterly, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Communication Yearbook, Journal of Applied Communication, Family Communication, Journal of Marriage and Family, etc. She is Past Editor of the Journal of Family Communication (Taylor & Francis) and has served on the editorial boards of Family Communication and Communication Yearbook. With the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Prof Medved has published a number of pieces on the experiences of stay-at-home fathers and breadwinning mothers. Her 2016 article titled, “Stay-at-Home Fathering as a Feminist Opportunity,” won the article of the year award from the Family Communication Division of the National Communication Association in 2017.

Awards for her scholarship also have included the Stanley L. Saxon Applied Research Award (with co-author Sarah Bishop), as well as Article of the Distinguished Article of the Year award from the Family Communication Division of the National Communication Association (2016). She publishes and presents her work in both English and French, including a recently published comparative study of at-home fathering experiences in France and the US in the journal L’Négotiations.

Professor Medved also uses her expertise in qualitative research and organizational communication with Diffusion Associates in conducting research-based program evaluation for organizations, innovators and their sponsors to better understand and improve how best to implement and scale innovations. Along with Diffusion Associate Colleges, she is working on an implementation study of Project ECHO, a study supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Professor Medved also serves at the Teaching Specialist for the Work and Family Researchers Network.

At Baruch College, she teaches undergraduate courses on work-life communication, managerial communication and advises student internships. At the graduate level, Professor Medved teaches courses on qualitative research methods, seminar in work-life communication. She became the Program Director in the Fall of 2019

Recent Publications:

Bishop, S. C., & Medved, C. E. (2020). Relational tensions, narrative, and materiality: intergenerational communication in families with undocumented immigrant parents. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 48(2), 227-247.

Medved, C. E. (2019). Reading with My Mother: Books as Objects. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research/University of California Press, 8(1), 13.

Medved, C. (2016). The New Female Breadwinner: Discursively Doing and Undoing Gender Relations. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 44(3), 236-255.

Medved, C., & Chatot, M. (2016). Investir un rôle féminin tout en restant un homme – enquête sur les pères au foyer en France et aux Etats-Unis (Investing in a feminine role while staying masculine: Studying at-home fathers in France and the U.S. ). Négociations, 25(1), 155-166.

Medved, C. (2016). Stay-at-Home Fathering as a Feminist Opportunity: Perpetuating, Resisting, and Transforming Gender Relations of Caring and Earning. Journal of Family Communication, 16(1), 16-31.

Medved, C. (2015). Work-Family Communication Research: Contemplating the Possibilities of Undoing Gender. The Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication, 25(1/2).

Medved, C. (2014). Work-Life Issues for Human Resource Practitioners. In M. Gordon & V. Miller (Eds.), Meeting the Challenge of Human Resource Management: A Communication Perspective (pp. 204-214). Philadelphia, PA: Taylor & Francis.

Medved, C. (2014). Men Narrating Home. In D. Chawla & S. Holman-Jones (Eds.), Storying Home: Place, Identity and Exile. Washington D. C.: Lexington Books.

Medved, C. (2014). Fathering, Caregiving, and Masculinity: Stay-at-Home Fathers and Family Communication. In M. T. Morman & K. Floyd (Eds.), Widening the Family Circle: New Research in Family Communication (2nd Edition, pp. 115-132). Thousand Oaks: CA: Sage Publication.

Medved, C. (2014). Infertility, Professional Identity and Consciousness-Raising. Communicating Pregnancy and Loss: Narrative as a Method for Change. (pp. 103-116). New York, NY: Peter Lange Publishers.

Email: elizabeth.minei@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: 646-312- 3720
Location: NVC 8-240

Elizabeth Minei is an Associate Professor of Communication, with research interests in leadership, high-reliability organizations, small-group/team communication, entrepreneurial issues, globalization and glocalization, and cyberterrorism. She is fascinated by the intersection between interpersonal and organizational communication, and frequently studies High Reliability Teams (HRT’s), leadership, supervisor-subordinate communication, small business growth, and message framing processes.  Professor Minei has received numerous research awards, including the Stanley L. Saxon Applied Research Award for her work assessing the communication practices between firefighters, and again for the interactions between supervisors and subordinates concerning illegitimate tasks. She also won the Ragan-Kramer-Wieder Qualitative Dissertation Award for her work with small businesses.

Degrees:

PhD, University of Oklahoma, Organizational and Interpersonal Communication

M.A., University of Central Florida, Organizational and Interpersonal Communication

B.A., Queens University of Charlotte, Corporate Communication

Recent Publications:

Hastings, S. O., Minei, E.M. & Warren, S. (2021). Organizational practices leading to closeting: The interactional construction of ‘closets’. Journal of Applied Communication Research.

Minei, E. M., Razuvayeva, T. & Dyshko, D. (2021). Modern day digital pen pals: A semester-long collaborative online international learning (COIL) project. Communication Teacher. 1-9.

Minei, E. M. (2021). Dysfunction in the fire house: Negotiating a communication breakdown during an after-action review. Sage Business Cases.

Minei, E. M. (2021). Which leader to follow? Sensemaking the messaging in a dual-owner organization. Sage Business Cases.

Minei, E. M. & Hastings, S. O., & Warren, S. (2020). LGBTQ+ sensemaking: Identifying allies in the workplace. International Journal of Business Communication, 1-21.

Minei, E. M., & Eatough, E., Cohen-Charash, Y. (2018). Discursive leadership: Managing illegitimate work tasks through explanation and acknowledgement. Management Communication Quarterly, 1-28.

Minei, E. M., & Shearer-Dunn, K. (2017). Teaching group interdependence: A campus murder mystery activity. Communication Teacher, 172-176.

Breiner, T., & Minei, E. M. (2016). Corporate acculturation neglect in cross-border acquisitions: The case of Denmark and the United States. Journal of International Communication. 1-22.

Minei, E., (2016). Teaching small group communication: A Do Good project. Insight: Journal of Scholarly Teaching, 11(1), 1-15.

Minei, E. (2015). Discursive leadership: Harmonious and discordant framing-to-sensemaking outcomes. Journal of Creative Communications, 10(2), 141-160.

Taha, D., Hastings, S. O., & Minei, E. (2015). Shaping student activists: Discursive sensemaking of activism and participation research. The Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 15(6), 1-15.

Minei, E., & Matusitz, J. (2013). Cyberterrorist messages: A semiotic analysis. Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, 1, 106-121.

Weger, H. Jr., Castle, G. R., Emmett, M. C., Minei, E. M. (2014). The relative effectiveness of active listening in initial interactions. International Journal of Listening, 28, 13-31.

Minei, E, & Bisel, R. (2013). Negotiating the meaning of team expertise: A firefighter team’s epistemic denial. Small Group Research, 44, 7-32.

Minei, E. & Matusitz, J. (2013). Diffusion and glocalization: Dialectical tensions for Wal-Mart in Mexico. Global Business Perspectives, 1, 106-121.

Matusitz, J., & Minei, E. (2013). New trends in globalization: An examination of the Brazilian case. Journal of Social Change, 43, 1, 1-19.

Minei, E. & Matusitz, J. (2012). Cyberspace as a new arena for terroristic propaganda: An updated examination. Poiesis and Praxis: International Journal of Technology, 9(1), 163-176.

Matusitz, J., & Minei, E. (2011). Cultural adaptation of an MNC in Mexico: A success story. Transition Studies 18(2), 418-429.

Minei, E., & Matusitz, J. (2011). Cyberterrorist messages and their effects on targets: A qualitative analysis. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 21(8), 995-1019.

Matusitz, J., & Minei, E. (2009). Cyberterrorism: Its effects on health-related infrastructures. Journal of Digital Forensic Practice, 2(4), 161-171.

Email: rianne.subijanto@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: 646-312-3743
Location: NVC 4-286

Rianne Subijanto is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York. She received a B.A. in English from Universitas Indonesia, an M.A. in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, and a PhD in Communication and Graduate Certificate in Critical Theory from University of Colorado Boulder. A specialist on communication technology, social emancipation, and history of colonialism in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, she has conducted archival research in the Netherlands, Indonesia, Britain, the United States, and Russia. Her current book project, provisionally titled “Revolutionary Communication: Enlightenment at the Dawn of Indonesia,” examines the communicative sociotechnical systems of resistance produced by ordinary people in the early communist anticolonial struggles in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1920s. This book project won an Honorable Mention for the 2016 Margaret A. Blanchard Doctoral Dissertation Prize from the American Journalism Historians Association.

Her interdisciplinary research has appeared in multiple languages in journals including International Journal of Communication, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Journal, Digithum, Tijdschrift voor Geschiednis, and IndoPROGRESS Jurnal Pemikiran Marxis as well as in edited books on topics including the global influence of the Russian Revolution and critical discourse analysis.

Professor Subijanto is a 2019-2021 Junior Fellow of the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography and has received grants and fellowships from Fulbright, American Association of University Women (AAUW), University of Colorado Boulder’s James R., Ann R. and R. Jane Emerson (McCall) Dissertation Fellowship, Baruch College’s the Eugene M. Lang Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, the CUNY Faculty Fellowship Publication Program, and PSC-CUNY Research Award Program.

At Baruch, she offers courses: at the undergraduate level, COM 3060 Media Analysis and Criticism, COM 3076 International Communication, COM 3057 Introduction to Digital Communication and Culture, and a special topic on Media, Activism and Social Justice; and, at the graduate level, COM 9505 Media Analysis for Corporate Communication.

Email: yoori.yang@baruch.cuny.edu
Phone: 646-312-3720
Location: NVC 4-246

Yoori Yang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, CUNY. She earned her PhD and MA in Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), specializing in Organizational Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility. She earned her B.A. in Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at University of Pennsylvania. Before coming to Baruch, she was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Technology Management at UCSB where she conducted research on communication visibility and advice seeking. Prior to coming to academia, she has also worked in the marketing department of IBM Korea as a Market Development Specialist.

Professor Yang’s research interests are in organizational communication processes at micro-, meso-, and macro-levels that address and enhance social justice, social well-being and the sustainability of our world. Her primary research program has been focused on organizational communication and inter-organizational networks in relation to globalization and digital environment. Her recent work has explored the communication network dynamics and structures of NGOs, MNCs and governmental organizations in South Korea, and how they create institutional pressures on multinational corporations to practice Corporate Social Responsibility. She has also explored what communication issues corporations face in developing sustainable practices related to their reputation management. Earlier in her academic career, she has explored how activists develop social movements on social media using both personalized and traditional media contents in opposition against political repression in an international context.

At Baruch, Professor Yang offers courses in Organizational Communication related to globalization and digital era, International Business, and Quantitative Research Methods at the graduate level.

Michael Bayer has been teaching graduate and undergraduate communications courses for going on a decade, specializing in executive communications, public relations, corporate marketing, thought leadership, quantitative research methods, storytelling forms, public speaking, and writing disciplines. He has served as a lecturer at Baruch College since 2012 and teaches at Johns Hopkins University as well.

Before moving into academia, Michael spent 22 years working in corporate communications where he earned a reputation for bringing creative thinking into the corporate boardroom. His clients included senior executives in a variety of industry sectors, and he led programs for some of the world’s leading companies, including 3M, AIG, AXA, Dow Jones, Freddie Mac, General Electric, General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Heineken, HSBC, Lincoln Financial, Microsoft, The New York Times Co., and Standard & Poor’s, among others.

He served as Chief Client Officer and Senior Managing Director at leading communications consultancy FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN) and its predecessor firm Financial Dynamics, where he created and built the corporate communications practice and helped lead the firm through a management buyout and subsequent sale to FTI Consulting (NYSE: FCN). He also held senior roles with several other top ten global PR agencies, including Weber Shandwick and Burson Cohn & Wolfe.

After undergraduate study at the University of Rhode Island, Michael earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Fairfield University. He’s published short fiction pseudonymously in a variety of literary journals and anthologies and served as editor of “Now What? The Creative Writer’s Guide to Success After the MFA” (Fairfield University Press). He lives in Westchester County, NY.

Email: Lemuel.Brewster@lseg.com

Lemuel Brewster is a corporate communication and crisis communication professional and an academic.

Over the past 20 years, Mr. Brewster has served as an integrated and trusted corporate communications advisor and media strategist to senior management for several leading global financial and information technology services organizations.

He currently serves as Director of Communications for London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), where he is responsible for corporate communications including executive communications, crisis communications and media relations for several businesses: sustainable investments, indices, Investment banking/asset management and wealth management solutions.

Before joining LSEG, Mr. Brewster served as Sr. Director of Communications for Thomson Reuters. He is a former Vice President of Press and Media Relations at Deutsche Bank and a former Media Relations Officer and Spokesman for TIAA-CREF. He has also developed strategic communication programs and advised c-suite leaders at JPMorgan Asset Management, Dow Jones Indices, J. & W. Seligman (Ameriprise), and The Reserve.

Mr. Brewster earned a M.A. degree in Public Communication from Fordham University and a B.A. degree in Business Communication from Baruch College (CUNY). He has held NASD/FINRA series 6 and 7 Licenses. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Baruch College and NYU, where he lectures on business communication and crisis communication.

From a young age, Patty Caballero would spend hours untangling puzzles or figuring out word problems. She translated a lifelong passion for puzzles and challenges into finding communication solutions for businesses in highly regulated industries.

As a strategic communications leader with over 25 years of experience in the industry, Patty now uses these problem-solving skills to help leaders communicate with investors, clients, partners, and employees to drive growth.

She is the founder and principal of PSC Consulting, a strategic communications firm that to helps start-up and emerging organizations build communications and public relations capabilities.

Prior to starting her company, Patty led U.S. business development at global public relations firm Burson-Marsteller (now BCW). She was also a senior vice president at healthcare marketing agency, greyhealth (now Wunderman) where she helped clients build and implement marketing and public relation strategies.

Earlier in her career, Patty was a director at global health insurer Cigna where she played a pivotal role in building the company’s brand and reputation with partners, clients, customers and investors.

Patty has a BA, Communications from American University and an MBA from American University’s Kogod School of Business. She is a member of the American University Alumni Board.

An explorer by nature, Patty is always looking for new adventures, travel, interesting food, books and fun workouts.

Email: Allison.clair@stern.nyu.edu

Phone: 917-301-5699

Allison Clair is an adjunct professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York. She received a B.A. in English and International Relations from the University of Delaware, a M.A. in Corporate Communications from Baruch College and a M.B.A. from NYU Stern School of Business.

Allison teaches a variety of classes at the graduate level in the Corporate Communications program at Baruch, including Healthcare Communications & Public Relations and Social Media Strategy. She brings extensive experience in media & public relations, social media, and crisis communications to her role at Baruch.

Currently, Allison is a Director of Media Relations at NYU Langone Health helping to oversee external communications in the Department of Communications and Marketing. She works closely with colleagues in marketing, internal communications, digital and media relations to help elevate and protect the reputation of the medical center. Recently, she collaborated with Sirius XM Radio to create “Vital Signs,” an award-winning podcast featuring personal and professional stories from the world-renowned doctors, nurses and staff at NYU Langone.

In October 2013 when Superstorm Sandy hit the East Coast, she helped support crisis communications efforts for the hospital. She was a main point of contact for national press such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, CNN, Newsweek, Associated Press, Reuters, ABC News, as well as many other local news outlets.

Allison has won awards from PR Daily for “Best Non-Profit PR Campaign” and “Best Reputation/Crisis Management,” as well as the Bulldog Media Relations award for “Best Crisis Communications” with her team. PR News also awarded her team the “Non-Profit Award for Team of the Year,” as well as “Best Media Relations Campaign” for their initiatives during Superstorm Sandy. Recently, Allison was named a PRSA-NY 15 Under 35 Award winner.

She has presented at the Corporate Communications International (CCI) Annual Conference regarding issues management/crisis communications, as well as at the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Annual Meeting to her colleagues in public relations, internal communications and philanthropy.

Recent Publications:

Clair, A., & Mandler, J. (2019). Building relationships with the new media in a cyber landscape. Journal of Business Strategy, 40(6), 49-54.

Email: skdishart@me.com
Phone: (646) 312-3720

Before founding Communications and Crisis Management Consultants (CCMC), Steve Dishart was a managing director of Communications and Human Resources for Zürich-based Swiss Re, a leading and diversified reinsurer with offices in more than 25 countries. He and his team were responsible for strategic internal and external communications as well as advertising and sponsorship in Latin America, Canada and the United States, Swiss Re’s largest market.

Before joining Swiss Re in January of 2000, Steve was first vice president and director of Corporate Communications for Pittsburgh-based Mellon Financial Corporation. He was responsible for all internal and external communications globally as well as the company’s annual report and other financial publications.

Steve began his career as a broadcast journalist, where he won a number of journalism awards for news reporting and was involved in network reporting of national news stories. He is the past chairman of the Insurance Information Institute Communications Committee, and he is a trustee of the Institute for Public Relations and a member of the Arthur W. Page Society, The Public Relations Seminar and an accredited member of the Public Relations Society of America.

Steve’s personal philanthropic and volunteer activities include serving on the Board of Trustees of ArtsWestchester, where he led a rebranding of the organization, and he serves on the boards of Green Chimneys Children’s Services and the New York League of Conservations Voters Education Fund. He is also active in other community, industry and volunteer organizations, including Bridges to Community, which builds homes in the poorest regions of Nicaragua.

Vern Oakley is a filmmaker whose life’s work is fueled by the abiding belief that a well-crafted story, honestly delivered, is the most powerful means of achieving the human connections we all long for. As CEO of Tribe Pictures, a film production company he founded in 1986, Vern helps leaders of companies and institutions become more successful through the humanizing power of film. He has steered Tribe to continuing success through the defining technological revolutions of the last twenty-five years– from film to video to digital to high definition to streaming, consistently leveraging evolving technology for the purpose of helping to humanize and connect more successfully with others. Vern has assisted leaders and companies facing disruptive change including American Express, Hess, Colgate-Palmolive, Actavis, AT&T, and Stanley Black & Decker. Under his guidance, Tribe has won over 500 industry awards, including a Gold Dolphin from the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards, a Gold Camera from the US International Film & Video Festival, multiple Golden Eagles from CINE (Council on International Nontheatrical Events), and scores of best in shows.

Vern’s filmmaking career began and continues to be nourished outside the commercial arena. He has directed episodes of the Emmy Award-winning children’s television series “Reading Rainbow.” He wrote and directed the feature film “A Modern Affair”, a Columbia Tri-Star picture starring Stanley Tucci in his first leading role, which was distributed in twenty countries. He has written screenplays with Leopold Serran (twice nominated for Academy Award) and David N. Meyer, noted film author.

Email: shelley@spectorpr.com

Shelley J. Spector has served on the adjunct faculty since 2014, when she taught a course she created called, “From Plato to Twitter: a History of Media, Influence and Public Opinion.”  For the Fall 2022 semester she taught COM 9630, Corporate Media Relations at Baruch, and also guest-lectured on PR history at more than 90 colleges and universities around the world.

Spector is founder/director of the Museum of Public Relations, the world’s only museum serving the Communications industry. Founded in 1997, the Museum today holds more than 5k artifacts chronicling the history of the profession and demonstrating the profession’s impact on history.  It is a 501(c) educational institution, chartered by the New York State Department of Education, and offers in person and virtual tours/lectures to classes internationally.

As CEO of a boutique PR agency she founded in 1991, Spector has represented many of the world’s biggest brands, including AT&T, HP, Philips, Goldman Sachs and Bayer Corporation.  Spector & Associates has won more than 50 industry awards, including the Gold Creativity in Public Relations Award, granted after the firm’s first year of operation.

In 2022, the Page Society chose Spector to receive the Distinguished Service Award — one of the PR industry’s highest honors.

Email: Candace.Steele@baruch.cuny.edu

Candace holds a Doctor of Management from Case Western Reserve University, an MBA from Johns Hopkins University, and a BA from the University of Michigan. She also has an Accreditation in Public Relations.

She is a seasoned Communications Executive and engaged Fellow at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Candace serves on the Board of Advisors for CulTRUE, a private equity organizational culture solutions company. She also leads leadership development residencies for graduate students at the Carey Business School and Office of the Provost at Johns Hopkins University.

Candace brings over twenty years of experience enhancing corporate reputation and creating value in diverse sectors, including industrial technology, financial services, and medical device industries. Her expertise centers on advising Boards, CEOs, and management teams, focusing on strategies for brand equity, risk mitigation, and employee engagement.

Candace has led the public relations and public affairs launch strategy for over 50 global products. She has directed the communications for more than 20 acquisitions. Her crisis management skills have been critical in navigating high-stakes situations such as CEO transitions, global product recalls, and cybersecurity threats.

She is the former SVP and Chief Communications Officer of Acuity Brands, a leading industrial technology company with operations in North America, Europe, and Asia. Previously, she served as EVP and Chief Communications Officer at First Horizon National Corporation, a Fortune 500 financial services holding company.

A dedicated scholar, Candace is the author of Generation Z in the Workplace, Millennials in the Workplace, and Get Your Career in SHAPE, based on her insightful TEDx Talk, What Women Really Want… at Work. She is a highly sought-after advisor and speaker, offering valuable career insights on the future of work, focusing on human capital, communications, and the evolving multigenerational workplace.

Candace is also a strong advocate for civic engagement, serving on the board of directors of Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation, The Woodruff Arts Center, and the Carter Center Board of Councilors.

Richard Woods has over 30 years of experience serving as chief communication officer for companies seeking to capture the business opportunities provided by active, systematic reputation management.  This includes designing enterprise reputation risk practices, identifying stakeholder interests and partnership opportunities, and implementing persuasive communication programs for each of his company’s many constituencies.

For almost 20 years, he served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs for Capital One Financial, responsible for company communication, philanthropy, and reputation risk management programs.  He was also responsible for Capital One’s Community Development Banking business, CRA compliance and outreach to community development organizations.

Before joining Capital One, Mr. Woods served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Communication at Revlon, Inc.

Prior to Revlon, Mr. Woods served as Vice President of Corporate Communication at Eli Lilly and Company and as Senior Vice President, Director of Communication for MasterCard International.

Mr. Woods served as Chairman of the Board of Junior Achievement USA and Trustee of the Page Society, where he currently leads their Academic Committee. He is Trustee of the PRB, a demographic research consultancy and chairs their Audit Committee. He is also a member of the Council of the University Club of New York.

Mr. Woods earned a B.A. from Pomona College, a B.S. from the University of Southern California – Los Angeles, and an M.B.A. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.