Meridith Styer, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Phoenix, NY, US

 Lead and manage day-to-day account activities for healthcare and nonprofit clients. Drive objectives-based yearly communications plans for clients, ensuring strategies are integrated across multiple channels and outreach efforts. Led insights-driven executive communications strategy, advising, planning and deployment. Contribute content and strategy.

Milledgeville, Georgia, United States

 Founded and directed the Lake Sinclair Safe Center to provide shelter for victims of domestic violence.  Orchestrated community-wide communications campaigns to drive fundraising, awareness, participation, and engagement from community and government leaders. Initiated community relationships with state, county, police, non-profit, religious.

Milledgeville, GA

 Wrote, edited, and published original research: 20+ conferences presentations, 5 peer-reviewed globally disseminated research publications, invited scholar at multiple public events.  Designed, taught, assessed, and redesigned 16 undergraduate communication classes serving more than 80 students per semester. Earned 4.93/5-star student rating on.

 Designed eight college classes to teach more than 2,000 students over 6 years. Earned 3.89/4-star student rating on evaluation of my teaching. Data analysis with LMS and Excel of large data sets. Experience with digitizing historic documents, OCR technology, and Library of Congress archival work. Provided informal technical support for Mac, Windows, MS.

Rockville, Maryland, United States

 Managed client intake, preliminary screening, confidential data, legal requirements for services, phone and in-person information on state, county, and community services, and front desk.  Conference planning, esp. logistics and promotion, for community event for high school students. Trained interns on information, county and non-profit services, and.

 University-wide Dissertation Research Excellence Award winner, 2017. Department Excellence in Teaching, Outstanding Research, and Outstanding Graduate Student Awards. Managed the budget for the graduate student organization. Extensive project management and research experiences, including dissertation, grants committee, student worker organizing.

Special Education instructor including individual and classroom instruction, strategy formation, curriculum assistance.Individual student mentoring, parent communication, and classroom engagement.

I was responsible for coaching undergraduate F-Sr students who competed in various speaking events on the regional and national level. I was also responsible for administrative relations, promotions, and fundraising, along with curriculum creation and development.

Front Desk Student worker for the campus HelpDesk. Administrative tasks, basic IT tasks, intake, customer service, digitization, database input and analysis.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Rhetoric And Political Culture

Master Of Arts (Ma), Speech Communication And Rhetoric

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication And Media Studies