People Group Archives: Presenters

Xuerong Lu is a doctoral candidate at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Georgia. Her primary research areas focus on how publics respond to competing and conflicting information (e.g., misinformation vs. corrective information) spread on social media in times of public health crisis or risk situations.

Heather A. Reed, Ed.S. is the director of Student Retention Initiatives at UA Little Rock. Reed started the University Care Team helping students navigate university life in the face of crisis.  

Dr. April Chatham-Carpenter is a Professor of Applied Communication at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she also serves as Department Chair of the Department of Applied Communication.  

Derek Slagle, Ph.D. is a dual appointment in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Public Affairs as an Assistant Professor of Public Administration & Director of the Survey Research Center.  

Dr. JJ McIntyre is a scholar, practitioner, and consultant in risk and crisis communication. Dr. McIntyre earned his Ph.D. in risk and crisis communication from North Dakota State University. He has conducted research for and consulted with many national organizations involved in crisis communication such as The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The […]

Hang Zheng is a graduate student in the communication MA program at UCF. Hang is also a graduate teaching associate teaching undergraduates public speaking courses. He earned his bachelor’s degree in public relations from East China Normal University in 2018. Before he started his graduate studies, Hang was a public relations specialist at Shanghai Disney […]

Dr. Yu’s research focuses on health communication and communication technology with an emphasis on health promotion using digital technologies and health messages tailored to specific audience members. Her scholarly work includes studies pertaining to health information seeking, immigrant health, health message effects, social and cultural construction of health, global health, and user experience of touch-screen […]

Ronisha Sheppard is a second year PhD student at Wayne State University. Her primary research focus is on risk and crisis communication strategies. Breakout Session 3: March 8, 2:45-4:00 PM Convergence, cascading and overlapping crises.

Matthew W. Seeger is a professor of communication at Wayne State. His work on crisis communication include Effective Crisis Communication (2007), Theorizing Crisis Communication (2014, 2020), Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (Second Edition, 2015), Narratives of Crisis: Stories of Ruin and Renewal (2016) and the International Handbook of Crisis Communication (2016). Breakout Session 3: March […]

America L. Edwards (M.A., University of Central Florida) is a Ph.D. student at the University of California Santa Barbara.