Erik C. Nisbet (Ph.D., Cornell) is the Owen L. Coon Endowed Professor of Policy Analysis & Communication and director of the Center for Communication & Public Policy in the School of Communication at Northwestern University. His research lies at the intersection of strategic communication, public opinion, and public policy in the areas of science, technology,
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Storer H. (Bob) Rowley MSC ’13 is an Adjunct Faculty member in the School of Communication, an Adjunct Lecturer in the Medill School of Journalism, and Assistant Vice President of Media Relations at Northwestern University. He manages all of Northwestern’s daily media relations activities, supervises the media relations and social media staff in the Department of
Andy Crestodina is a co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Orbit Media, an award-winning 38-person digital agency in Chicago. Over the past 18 years, Andy has provided digital marketing advice to 1000+ businesses. He speaks at national marketing conferences, writes for big marketing blogs and hosts a little marketing podcast. Andy has written hundreds of
Jeanne Sparrow received her MSC from Northwestern and also holds a BA in psychology from WCAS at NU. Jeanne is a communications consultant, specializing in media and presentation training through her firm, The Spoken Bird. Her work is informed by her three decades of experience as a multiple Emmy-winning television host/reporter and award-winning radio personality
Anne Marie Adams is the Director of Administration and Academic Affairs for the MSC program and Adjunct Faculty for the program. Anne Marie is an experienced higher education and student affairs administrator. She oversees the execution of all academic programming and advising, and provides leadership in the development and implementation of all program policies and
Susan D. Carver, Ph.D. has designed and implemented diversity programs, workshops and graduate courses for educational and religious institutions, city governments, NASA and large and small businesses. She has a unique capacity to discern and account for her own worldviews which informs her capacity to help attendees understand and optimize cultural differences to help establish
Rick G. Morris is a graduate of the New York University (LL.M.) School of Law and the University of Kansas School of Law. Morris combines real-world business experience with academic insight; he has worked and consulted for more than eleven media entities, including divisions of NBC, ABC, Telemundo, and CBS Television Networks and has won an Emmy
Randall Iden received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in the Program in Rhetoric and Public Culture. Iden also holds an MSC from Northwestern and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Lecturer in the School of Communication and teaches Foundations of Strategic Communication and the Communication Skills Practicum. Iden previously taught courses
Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management and Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University. He is also the President-Elect-Select of the
Michael Roloff received his Ph.D. in Communication from Michigan State University and joined the faculty at Northwestern in 1978. Roloff has been the Chair of the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association and is currently Director of the National Communication Association Publications Board. Roloff is a long-time editor of Communication Research and directs