Category Archives: Faculty

Peter Wayner

Peter Wayner
Peter Wayner is a videographer and writer from Rochester, New York. He grew up hearing stories from his grandfather, a World War II vet who farmed through the Great Depression. In college, and during his tenure at grad school at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Pete began cultivating his own storytelling style. Journalistic storytelling…
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David Wang

David Wang
David Wang is an Associate Professor at James Madison University. With more than twenty years of industry experience, he has worked as an art director, photographer, and interactive developer in advertising, business-to-business communications, and higher education. He teaches foundation courses in SMAD with an emphasis on creative process and interactive media.
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Ricardo Valencia

Ricardo Valencia
[caption id="attachment_5656" align="alignleft" width="300"] Ricardo Valencia[/caption] Ricardo Valencia is an assistant professor of public relations in the Department of Communications at California State University, Fullerton. Dr. Valencia is a seasoned global communicator and scholar. He obtained a doctoral degree in Media Studies at the University of Oregon in 2018.Between 2010 and 2014, Dr. Valencia was…
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Claudia Strong

Claudia Strong
[caption id="attachment_4904" align="alignleft" width="240"] Claudia Strong[/caption] In what has turned out to be a delightfully varied communications career, Claudia Strong began as a newspaper journalist after earning a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, then moved to the design side of the newsroom before eventually entering the freelance world. She’s…
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