Christopher Adams Adjunct Instructor
Chris Adams is the director of state news for The AARP Bulletin, a news publication that goes to 23 million homes and is the nation's second-largest magazine. Before that, he was director of training …
Mary Ann Akers Adjunct Instructor
Mary Ann Akers is an adjunct professor of journalism with more than 25 years' worth of expertise as a print and broadcast reporter. She was a correspondent for The Washington Post and NPR, and a colum…
Paul Albergo Adjunct Assoc Prof
Paul Albergo (he/him) joined AU's adjunct faculty in 2000 and has taught a variety of classes, including Writing for Communication, Reporting for the Specialized Media, Community News Reporting, and t…
Cecilia Capuzzi Simon Adj Sr Prof Lecturer
Cecilia Capuzzi Simon is a senior adjunct professorial lecturer in the School of Communication. She has taught journalism courses at AU for 27 years, including Writing for Communication (Comm 200), Re…
Windsor Edwards Adjunct Instructor
Windsor Johnston-Edwards is an adjunct professor of Journalism.
Matt Glassman Adjunct Professorial Lect
Matt Glassman (SOC '92) is an adjunct professor of Journalism. He serves as Assistant News Director for NBC4 News, NBC's owned station in Washington, DC. Matt joined News4 as an Assignment Editor in J…
Jennifer LaFleur Adjunct Professorial Lect SOC - School of Communication
Jennifer LaFleur joined AU in Fall 2017 as data journalist in residence and data editor for The Investigative Reporting Workshop. Previously, she was a senior editor at Reveal from The Center for Inve…
Christine Lawrence Assistant Prof Emerita
Christine C. Lawrence is a full-time professor of Journalism. She brings her experience covering politics and government to the SOC journalism division having worked for 10 years as a senior editor an…
Donald Markus Adjunct Instructor
Don Markus is an adjunct professor of Journalism. He has been teaching in the SOC for the past seven years. A sportswriter for the Baltimore Sun since 1985, Markus has taught Sports Journalis…
Elvina Nawaguna Adjunct Professorial Lect
Elvina Nawaguna is an adjunct professor at American University’s School of Communication. She’s also the deputy editor for Business Insider’s Washington, D.C. bureau.She has also been an energy and en…
Fernando Pizarro Adjunct Professorial Lect
Fernando Pizarro is a Supervising Editor at NPR's Morning Edition. He has been a long-time political reporter and an adjunct professorial lecturer at the School of Communications at American Universit…
Dani Rizzo Adjunct Instructor
With a passion for purpose-driven communication and digital storytelling, Dani Rizzo currently serves as the digital director at the Humane Rescue Alliance, overseeing digital communication efforts, i…
Robert Roberts Adjunct Instructor
Rob Roberts is the Director of Digital Strategy for the U.S. Department of Energy. Prior to joining Energy, Rob worked in a number of digital roles throughout government, academia and journalism, incl…
Andrew Tran Adjunct Instructor
Andrew Ba Tran is an investigative data reporter for the Washington Post. He shared in winning the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2018 and was a finalist for Investigative Reporting in …
Brian Westley Adjunct Instructor
Brian Westley is an adjunct instructor at American University. He is also Content Counsel at Axios Media. At Axios, Mr. Westley advises journalists on a broad range of media law issues and conducts pr…
Brett Zongker Adjunct Instructor
Brett Zongker is a communications and media strategist who spent more than a dozen years in journalism. In addition to teaching at AU, Zongker is chief of media relations at the Library of Congress. H…