Jasmine R. Linabary (Ph.D., Purdue University) is a researcher, educator, and consultant whose work centers on how to design more equitable and inclusive spaces for participation. She is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Public and Applied Humanities and the founder of the Co-Design Collaborative at the University of Arizona.
Her research focuses on organizing for social change, new media, and feminist and participatory methodologies. As an engaged scholar and teacher, Dr. Linabary is committed to working with communities and organizations. For example, she has a decade-long relationship with a nonprofit called World Pulse, a digitally based transnational feminist network with members from more than 200 countries. She served as lead researcher for the #SheTransformsTech campaign, an effort by World Pulse and 27 coalition partners (e.g., EQUALS, Digital Impact Alliance, World Wide Web Foundation, Wikimedia Foundation) to identify key issues and recommendations for technology companies and policymakers to make technology more equitable. Her current collaborative work with this partner involves a participatory design project looking at efforts to reimagine and “shift the power” in relationships within the women’s development sector. A recent report from this project highlighted women’s insights on what it means to shift power, the barriers they face in seeking funding, and recommendations for institutions and funders to better enable power shifting.
Dr. Linabary was most recently an assistant professor of communication at Emporia State University (ESU) and the co-founder and director of the EAT Initiative, a collaborative and interdisciplinary effort to combat food insecurity on ESU’s campus and in the Emporia community. She was also the former Associate Director of Research & Operations for the Purdue Peace Project, an initiative dedicated to locally led peacebuilding housed at Purdue University. Her work has been published in outlets such as the Journal of Applied Communication Research, New Media & Society, Big Data & Society, Qualitative Research, Management Communication Quarterly, Journal of International & Intercultural Communication, Conflict Resolution Quarterly, Feminist Review, and Communication Education, among others, and in several edited books. She is also the co-editor of the book Are We Making a Difference? Global and Local Efforts to Assess Peacebuilding Effectiveness.
In her teaching, Dr. Linabary further encourages community engagement among students. Dr. Linabary has taught classes across multiple disciplines, including courses focused on communication, leadership, collaboration, emerging technology, gender, ethics, and research and engagement methods. To apply what they are learning, students in her classes have put leadership into action through a community-based research project, developed action projects around community challenges, executed digital workshops for target audiences around issues related to communication and emerging technology, worked with real clients to design and implement strategic social media campaigns, and created persuasive advocacy videos to promote donations to nonprofits, among other activities. Dr. Linabary also fosters a culture of community engagement by designing workshops for faculty, conducting research and outreach alongside students on cultivating more meaningful campus-community relations, and while at ESU co-founding the Community Impact Challenge, a grant competition that invites student teams to pitch creative solutions to issues facing the community. Dr. Linabary is committed to values of equity and care in her pedagogy, having served as the inaugural co-chair of ESU’s Basic Needs Coalition, a university-level committee to support students’ basic needs as a matter of educational equity that was commissioned by the university president because of advocacy by the EAT Initiative, and now as chair of a sub-committee of UA’s Basic Needs Coalition focused on better communicating about basic needs resources to students. To further promote equity-minded teaching, she has developed teaching activities and co-authored manuscripts on pedagogy, facilitated interdisciplinary teaching collaborations, and developed and promoted open educational resources that have been adopted by faculty members at her own and other universities. Based on her community engagement efforts as well as her mentoring and teaching, Dr. Linabary received the Association of American Colleges & Universities’ K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award, recognizing her promise as a future leader of higher education.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Whitworth University, and her master’s degree in Communication Studies from California State University, Chico. She completed her Ph.D. in Communication, with an emphasis in organizing, new media, and social change, at Purdue University. She also received a graduate concentration in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Purdue. She has a background in journalism, having spent time as a reporter and a managing editor of several weekly newspapers in Idaho and Montana. She currently serves as a research and evaluation consultant for nonprofit and other social change organizations.
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Jasmine R. Linabary, Ph.D. 