Hello 👋🏻 I'm an instructor of communication at Florida Southern College. I hold a Ph.D. in Media & Public Affairs from the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University (LSU). My research focuses on storytelling, public relations, and propaganda.

My dissertation was funded by the John Maxwell Hamilton Fellowship for Media and Public Affairs Research. In the past, I have held a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship at the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University and a COMPASS Fellowship in Media Policy at Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania in Washington, D.C. I also interned for the Mayor-President's office of the city of Baton Rouge.

Originally from Texas ☀️ I have a bachelor's degree from The University of Texas at Dallas, a master's degree from the University of Minnesota, and an unremitting love for gumbo and red beans and rice.