ABC Mentor Program

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1	INSTRUCTIONS	This is a Google Sheet that anyone with a link can edit. Please do not edit the sheet in any way other than to add your information in the appropriate location.
2	Mentors	Complete the seven fields highlighted in blue.
3	Mentees	Identify a mentor and complete the five fields highlighted in green next to their name. Contact your mentor at the email address provided. Only sign up for one mentor.
4	Questions?	Contact Jessica Nevitt at jknevitt@iu.edu
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6	Mentor Information							Mentee Information
7	Mentor Name	Email Address	Do you give permission for your email address to be available on this site?	Affiliation	Position/Title	Share a bit about yourself and what you might offer a mentee	Preferred Means of Communication	Mentee Name	Mentee Email	Do you give permission for your email address to be available on this site?	Affiliation	Position/Title
8	D. Joel Whalen	joel@spensermcgee.com	Yes	DePaul University	Assoc. Prof; Curriculum Director Cntr Sales Leadership	15 years broadcasting on-air talent. 10 years advertising sales. Communication Science: Persuasion, attitude change, channels, social psychology, neurobiology of communication, marketing.	Email
9	Chris McKenna	mckennacj@sfasu.edu	Yes	Stephen F. Austin State University	Assistant Professor of Business Communication	25 years of Financial technology management on Wall Street. Background in Rhetoric and Composition. Interests include business ethics and student success initiatives.	Email	Cornelius Suom-Kogle	cfsuomko@mtu.edu	Yes	Michigan Technological University	Graduate Student
10	Peter Cardon	cardon@marshall.usc.edu	Yes	University of Southern California	Professor of Business Communication	After MBA, worked in private industry for five years. Then, went back for Ph.D. with focus on intercultural business communication. Teaching business communication since 2001. Former ABC president.	Email	Rachel Slivon	Rachel.Slivon@warrington.ufl.edu	Yes	University of Florida	Lecturer
11	Barbara Shwom	bshwom@northwestern.edu	Yes	Northwestern University	Professor of Instruction	30+ years of experience teaching writing, business communication, presenting, research. Also direct a writing center at Northwestern. Managing principal of a communication consulting company, Communicaion Partners, providing communication training to industry. Textbook author. Former ABC president	Email	Laura Barrett	lobarrett@ku.edu	Yes	University of Kansas	Lecturer/Director of Business Communication Center
12	Marsha Bayless	mbayless@sfasu.edu	Yes	Stephen F. Austin State University	Professor of Bus Comm	Current ABC board member, former ABC president, interested in teaching pedagogy, technology, and all areas of business communication.	Email	Sabine Thépaut	sabine.thepaut@unt.edu	Yes	University of North Texas	Lecturer
13	Jolanta Aritz	aritz@marshall.usc.edu	Yes	University of Southern California	Professor of Business Communication	Almost 20 years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in business communication and conducting research in the areas of multicutural, gendered, small group communciation and virtual communciation. ABC Western Region VP.		Hirah Javaid		No	TU Bergakademie Freiberg	MBA Student
14	Debbie DuFrene	ddufrene@sfasu.edu	Yes	Stephen F. Austin State University	Emeritus Professor of Business Communication	ABC member for 32 years and former ABC regional VP for Southwest U.S.. Retired business communication professor, department chair, and associate dean of business school. Currently, a textbook author and editor of a business book series. Research interests include scholarship of teaching and learning, technology mediated learning, accreditation and assessment issues, and business communication curriculum development.	Email	Anthony Coman	awcoman@ufl.edu	Yes	Universty of Florida	Lecturer
15	Janis Forman	janis.forman@anderson.ucla.edu	Yes	UCLA Anderson School of Management	Director, Management Communication for Field Studies Programs	30+ year member of ABC with expertise in program development in communication for MBA students Ph.D. in comparative literature; research and publication areas: storytelling and strategy, translation theory, group writing, genre theory, corporate communication.	Email	Mrunal Chavda / Rakesh Nambiar	mchavda@iimraipur.ac.in / rakeshnambiar88@gmail.com or rakesh.nambiar@nmims.edu	Yes	Indian Institute of Management, Raipur / NMIMS University, Mumbai - India	Assistant Professor / Assistant Professor
16	Geert Jacobs	geert.jacobs@ugent.be	Yes	Ghent University	Professor	Currently ABC's President. I was regional VP for Europe, Africa and the Middle East for 8 years. I teach buscom to undergraduates and graduate students at Ghent University, Belgium. Textbook author, team leader, head of department. Crisis communication, applying for a job, business plan, media relations (press releases/conferencing. Linguistics, discourse analysis.	Phone
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18	Kristin Pickering	kpickering@tntech.edu	Yes	Tennessee Technological University	Professor of English	ABC member since 1999, Former Southeastern Regional Vice President and ABC Board Member, Director of the B.A. and M.A. in Professional and Technical Communication (PTC) at Tennessee Tech. Current research interests include activity theory, interdisciplinary communication, identity construction, emotion in PTC, and ethics in PTC.Currently a member of both the ABC Student Writing Awards Committee and the ABC/MLA Liaison Committee.	Email	Michelle Cowan	mcowan@wlu.edu	Yes	Washington and Lee University	Assistant Professor of Business Administration
19	Judith Ainsworth	jainsworth@temple.edu	Yes	Temple University	Assistant Professor	Currently ABC's Eastern Region VP. I am on the Business Practices Committee and the Intercultural Communication SIG. I taught BizCom for the specialized master's programs at the University of Florida and currently teach BizCom to undergraduates as well as Professional Skills Development to graduates at Temple University. Publications and presentations relating to intercultural communication, developing teamwork skills, Team-Based Learning pedagogy and Critical Discourse Analysis. Persuasion strategies, crisis communication, business report, job application. Applied Linguisitics, discourse analysis.	Email	Sunitha T	tsunitha@iimv.ac.in	Yes	Indian Institute of Management, Visakhapatnam, India	Assistant Professor	Assistant Professor
20	Geoff Clegg	geoffrey.clegg@msutexas.edu	Yes	MSU Texas	Assistant Professor	Not as fancy as everyone above! Teaching, pedagogical help, working with students with disabilities, working with international students, curricular design	Email
21	Sheila B. Lalwani	sheila.b.lalwani@Gmail.com	Yes	Bentley University	Lecturer		Email
22	Skip Ward	jgward@fhsu.edu	Yes	FHSU Assistant Prof.	Asstant Prof	Pedagogy, Study Abroad, Online or jgward@fhsu.edu	Email
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