Stephanie Madden
- Associate Professor, Advertising/Public Relations, Penn State
- Senior Research Fellow, Arthur W. Page Center
- Email szm962@psu.edu
Biography
Stephanie Madden has a passion for advocacy and social justice issues, and her research focuses on the intersections between activism, risk and crisis communication, public safety, and social media. She finished her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland in 2016, writing her dissertation on the development of an extended engagement approach to issues management that explored the gendered, intersectional, and emotional aspects of issues. This work seeks to better inform communicators how to develop more proactive communication strategies for handling sexual assault and other issues of gender-based violence and harassment.