Kathleen McConnell 

Kathleen McConnell has taught and studied communication and rhetoric for over twenty years and continues to find it a fascinating subject. In a related project, she is looking at how to better align communication classes with two areas of job growth: wildfire management and clean energy power grids.

She serves on the Oregon Clean Energy Workforce Coalition and is the author of Advocating Heightened Education: Seeing and Inventing Academic Possibilities (Lexington Books, 2020).