Gonzaga University

Alumna, Communication and Leadership

Alumna, Consultant, Photographer, Writer, Intermedia Production Artist

Professional Studies

Thesis Title: Exploring Fear of Death in End-of-Life Care-Giving Contexts through Autoethnographic Performance Narrative

About

I graduated with a MA in Communication and Leadership Studies with Gonzaga University and a BA in English and Communication with emphases in Mass Media Studies and Creative Writing from the University of Washington. I want to wholly pursue my vocation (1 Tim. 4:14-16) to share creativity via writing, photography, and scholarship as a pathway to encourage people, organizations, and society to heal and to grow especially as related to organizing and communicating health. 

My many research interests fall under these categories:  narrative healthcare, ethics, digital/storytelling, rhetorics, writing, and communication and leadership.  For my doctorate studies, I want to partner with computer mediated communication (CMC) organizations to design healthcare communication systems that yield more ethical spaces, to write/publish books, and to work with  international and graduate students to develop their writing, digital storytelling, research ethics, communication theory, and organizational leadership frameworks.  I also want to collaborate with academic colleagues to design hybrid advanced degree programs.  In short I want to bridge the arts and humanities.  Together we can inform science, technology, and healthcare. 

Overall I seek to connect and network with people in meaningful and beneficial ways.  I desire to love Jesus with my life and to live by a vocation. This means I define faith as a formative vision, or acting on what _will_ exist.  I am married to James. I eat my veggies and I <3 Tea!

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