Gender, feminism and identity scholar Kumi Silva studied social movements in her native Sri Lanka and in India. Now, as an associate professor at a major university, she gets “paid to learn.”
Beck Banks, now an assistant professor of communication at Warren Wilson College, researches how life in rural environments impacts trans individuals by studying trans media producers in their native Appalachia.
Erica Ciszek is helping the world better understand how strategic communication impacts gender and LGBTQ issues, and how it influences social change in politics, policies and pop culture.
Lifelong besties Kay Chansiri and Ping Thipkanok study neuroscience and health communication, respectively. Together they work with faculty associates in the SOJC’s Center for Science Communication Research to investigate Instagram use among female students and its impact on body image.
