Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Alumna

Liv Shin (Class of 2021, Strategic Communication) was awarded the Top DEI Submission at the 2019 Schieffer College Research and Creative Festival for the children’s books she is writing and promoting. She hopes the two books she has published so far, “Naomi: A Story of a Young Girl with Osteogenesis Imperfecta” and “Kendall: A Story of a Young Boy with Autism,” help remove the negative stigma when one hears the word “disability” and spread awareness of the disabilities to young audiences.

Alumnus

Brandon Kitchin (Class of 2018, B.A. – Journalism) served as a mentor to high school students who attended the Department of Journalism’s summer camp and to students at the Young Men’s Leadership Academy in Fort Worth. He completed two Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies courses while he was an undergraduate student at TCU and he says the courses were transformative in his own personal growth.

“I credit those classes and the professors’ passions as a critical spark for students to be confident in going into their campus and larger communities as educated and thoughtful change agents, as well as models of empathic citizens who want to advocate for change and are not afraid to challenge systems of injustice.”

Faculty

Dr. Melita Garza, associate professor of Journalism and winner of the 2018-2019 Dean’s Award for Research and Creativity, is a journalism historian who conducts research about how news represents democracy and citizenship, with a particular focus on how news constructs what it means to be American. In her book, “They Came to Toil: Newspaper Representations of Mexicans in the Great Depression,” Dr. Garza shows how newspaper reports about forced deportations of Mexican Americans marginalized, and in some cases, erased the story of the Mexican American experience, contributing to stereotypes that endure today.

Faculty

Dr. Catherine Coleman, associate professor of Strategic Communication and winner of the 2017-2018 Dean’s Award for Research and Creativity, is studying the link between marketing campaigns and inequalities that women, as both producers and consumers, experience in economic markets. Additionally, she investigates such issues as how refugees navigate commercial settings that bombard them with advertising and promotions that assume “normal” consumer well-being.