JESSIE RICHARDS

Jessie Lynn Richards is an assistant professor/lecturer in the Business School at the University of Utah where she teaches interpersonal and organizational communication and writing. Her research interests include ethnographic interviewing and sociolinguistics, and her work explores intersections of trauma, memory, and language with a specific focus on gender and post-war communities. She started a non-profit foundation called Fight Against Domestic Violence, which exists to educate communities and to fundraise for DV service providers. She earned a joint Ph.D. in Communication and Writing Studies and Rhetoric from the University of Utah.