I am starting in the Fall 2016 as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the University of Houston-Downtown. I received my Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California (USC). At USC, I was an active research member of the Annenberg Network Networks and the Metamorphosis Project.
My research interests lie at the intersection of interorganizational communication, immigrant and multiethnic community building, social network theory and methodology. My dissertation uses an ecological framework to study the alliance building and communication practices among immigrant-serving NGOs in California. Along this line, some of my current rese...