Teaching & Lectures
Teaching
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & COURSES TAUGHT
Kenneasaw State University
Professor, Lead Researcher at the Radow Institute for Social Equity
Harvard Law School
Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society
Pepperdine University
The Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Communication; Tenured Associate Professor, Rank II
● Courses: Ethics: Media law; Intercultural media literacy; Social action and justice colloquium; Media, diversity & society; Advanced intercultural communication; Public relations; Public relations writing; Public relations strategies & tactics; and Research methods.
The School of Law Adjunct Professor
● Course: U.S. Law and Legal System
Louisiana State University
Teaching Assistant to Danny Shipka, PhD International Public Relations, Spring 2011
Teaching Assistant to Herman Kelly, D.Min.
● Minorities & the Media, Spring 2009 & 2010
Emory University Candler School of Theology
Research & Teaching Assistant to Teresa Fry Brown, PhD Homiletics and Womanist Ethics, Spring & Fall 2000
Research & Teaching Assistant to M. Thomas Thangaraj, PhD
● Religious Pluralism and Women in Hinduism, Fall 1999
● Images of Christ, Spring 1999
Research and Teaching Assistant to Daniel Hembree, PhD
● World Religions and Public Theology, Youth Theology Institute, Summer 2006
Emory University School of Law
Research Assistant to Abdullahi An’Naim, PhD
Program Assistant to John Witte, Esq., Law & Religion Program
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
National Communication Association
● Black Caucus, Feminist and Women Studies Division/Women's Caucus, African American Communication and Culture Division, LGBT Caucus, and Social Justice Activism Division
Association for Practical & Professional Ethics
● Chair, Media Ethics Division (2015-2017) Law & Society Association
● Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network
Black Public Relations Society - Los Angeles
● Board Member (2016 - present)
National Lawyers Guild
Invited Lectures
Pepperdine University, Seaver College
Identity, Fall 2018
Communication Ethics & Racial Justice, Spring 2017
What Movies Teach about Race, Graduate Ethics Seminar, Spring 2017
Semiotics & Critical Cultural Studies in Communication Theory, Fall 2016 and Fall 2015
Leadership, Spring 2016
Faculty Summit on Inclusive Pedagogy, Seaver College Office of the Dean, Spring 2016
Cultural Competence, University Chaplain’s Table Talk Series, Spring 2016
Faith, Justice and Public Relations, University Convocation Series, Spring 2015
Religion and Communication Club Convocation, Spring 2015
Faith and Career, Public Relations Student Society of America, Fall and Spring 2014
Public Relations Writing, Fall 2013
Principles of Public Relations, Fall 2013
Pepperdine University, Graduate School of Education & Psychology
Cultural Competence for Social Entrepreneurship & Change Program, Fall 2016
Pepperdine University School of Law
Domestic Violence in the Christian Church: Law, Current Trends & Effective Resources, School of Law Faculty Workshop,, March 2016
Vocational Justice Careers in Law, School of Law Panel, October 2015
California State University at Channel Islands
Semiotics & Critical Cultural Studies, Mass Communication Theory, SP 2016
California State University at Los Angeles
Womanism and Spirituality, Spring 2015
Pan-Africanism as Space for Religious Pluralism, Spring 2014
Southern University Law Center, Spring 2012
Journal on Race, Gender and Poverty Symposium: “Registration of Juvenile Sex Offenders: A Civil Regulation or Criminal Punishment?"
Howard University
Africana Studies, Spring 2008, Fall 2007
Spelman College
Human Rights, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2001-2006
University of Iowa
Women’s Studies, Fall 2007
Claflin University
Center for Vocational Reflection Religion & Human Rights, Spring 2006, Spring 2005, Spring 2004
Western Kentucky University
Human Rights Series, Women’s Studies & African American Studies, Fall 2006
Emory University
The Ethics Center, Fall 2006
Morehouse School of Medicine
Public Health & Human Rights, Fall 2006
Agnes Scott College
Women’s Studies, Spring 2006
Cornell University
Human Rights & Criminal Justice, Fall 2005