Speakers » Amiso George

Dr. Amiso M. George, APR, Fellow PRSA, is an Associate Professor of Strategic Communication at Texas Christian University.  (TCU), Fort Worth, Texas. She is former chair of the Strategic Communication Department and former director of the graduate program at TCU. She teaches crisis communication and strategic campaigns and coaches the award-winning TCU Bateman team. George also directed the Public Relations program at the Reynolds School of Journalism, University of Nevada, Reno, where she developed and taught the first course in crisis communication. She was a visiting professor of strategic communication at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, in 2012.  Before entering academia, George worked as a journalist and freelance broadcaster in radio and television at Nigerian Television Authority, Voice of America international radio network (Africa Service) and WOUB Radio in Athens, Ohio. She is the co-editor of Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives (Wiley, June 2017); Crisis Communication: An International Perspective on Hits and Misses. (Routledge/Taylor Francis 2012) and Race, Gender and Other Minorities: Readings for Professional Communicators (Cognella, 2012).