Professional Service

  • National Communication Association. Role: Vice-chair Elect. Activism & Social Justice Division. 11/2023 - present
  • National Communication Association. Chair, Health Communication Division. 11/2022 - 11/2023
  • National Communication Association. Immediate Past Chair, Feminist and Gender Studies Division. 11/2022 - 11/2023
  • Communication Monographs. Role: Member. Editorial Board. 01/2022 - present
  • Women's Studies in Communication. Role: Member. Editorial Board. 01/2019 - present
  • Peter Lang. Role: Editor. Cultural Media Studies Series. 06/2018 - present
  • Women & Language . Role: Member. Editorial Board. 01/2018 - present
  • Lexington Books. Role: Editor. Lexington Studies in Health Communication Series . 06/2016 - present
  • National Communication Association. Role: Paper reviewer, Panel respondent, Panel chair. Feminist & Gender Studies Division. 11/2015 - present
  • National Communication Association. Role: Panel chair, Panel respondent. La Raza Caucus and Latina/o Communication Studies Division. 11/2013 - present
  • Western States Communication Association. Role: Paper reviewer, Panel chair and respondent. Communication, Identities, and Difference Division. 02/2013 - present

Honors & Awards

  • Fall 2023 NCA Latina/o Communication Studies Division Outstanding Chapter Award for the chapter entitled “Comadrisma, mamás, and tías: An intersectional Chicana feminist approach to creating comunidad and working towards reproductive justice” (published in the book Beyond biology: Rhetorics of motherhood in the 21st century). National Communication Association, 11/2023
  • Recipient of the 2023 NCA Activism & Social Justice Community Engagement Award. National Communication Association, 11/2023
  • Recipient of the 2023 NCA Lambda Award, an honor bestowed by the NCA Caucus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns. National Communication Association, 11/2023
  • Recipient of the OSCLG 2023 Feminist Teacher-Mentor Award. Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, & Gender, 10/2023
  • OSCLG Anita Taylor Outstanding Article Award for the co-authored article "Construyendo conexiones para los niños: Environmental justice, reproductive feminicidio, and coalitional possibility in the borderlands" (published in Health Communication). Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender, 10/2023
  • Faculty Fellow, 2023-2024. American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE), 08/01/2023
  • Recipient of the Spring 2023 Access Fund Climbing Advocate Award for JEDI and Stewardship of climbing rights in the Wasatch Range. Access Fund, 04/2023
  • Recipient of the 2023 Utah Women’s Higher Education Network (UWHEN) Emerging Professional Award. Utah Women in Higher Education Network (UWHEN), 04/2023