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College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

Humanities and Communication

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Estella Porras

Doctor Estella Porras is passionate about facilitating students' creativity, curiosity, and intellectual engagement. Her academic interest and professional work have been about the inclusion and empowerment of social groups through media, journalism, and communication. She has written for international newspapers, magazines, and radio over the years with the desire to facilitate conversations about issues of social transformation. 

She graduated from the Ph.D. program of the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon. Her Master's degree is from the Communication for International Development Program at Ohio University. She did her undergraduate studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga in her natal Colombia.

 

Title: 

Associate Professor
Department of Humanities & Communication

Email eporras@csumb.edu
Office Location CAHSS 504-2013
Office Hours Online meetings on Monday and Wednesday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. and by appointment
Areas of Expertise

Media Studies, Journalism, Global communication, Social Change/Social Justice

Courses Taught

HCOM371 Community Journalism
HCOM315 Media for Social Change
HCOM319 Global Communication and Culture
HCOM390 Magazine Writing
HCOM 424 Latin American Media and Culture
HCOM 409 Communication Theory

Selected Works Author Gallery https://works.bepress.com/estella-porras/