Research Areas
Research Interests
Health Communication
Organizational Identity
Resilience
Medical Mistrust & Distrust
Research Description
Teri's research seeks to examine how identities are built through communication and how they shape public policy, healthcare, and professions. Her work aims to unpack how these systems overlap to impact the everyday health and well-being of marginalized communities. Currently, Teri is focusing on how shifts in public policy and organizational communication cascade across macro, meso, and micro levels, tracing how broad decisions ripple down to affect a person's daily ability to thrive.
Education
M.A., Communication, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
M.S., Health Communication, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
B.A., Psychology, Georgia State University
Courses Taught
CMN 101: Public Speaking
CMN 260: Introduction to Health Communication