Adjunct Professors

Alyssa Aguiar

Alyssa Aguiar has spent years working in roles across brand marketing, product and ad sales to bring to life inspiring new ad products and campaigns to billions of social media users around the world.

Chanler Bailey

Dustin Barnes

Dustin Barnes, APR, serves as the Communications Coordinator for the North Little Rock School District.

Deborah Baxtrom

Deborah Baxtrom is originally from Wisconsin but relocated to Los Angeles after receiving her MFA in Film Screenwriting/Directing at Columbia University in New York, NY.

Nicole Beason

Nicole Beason currently holds the position of executive director for the WVU Health Sciences Office of Research and Graduate Education. In this role, she provides vision, leadership and support for student enrollment efforts.

Rick Bebout

Rick Bebout is a technology specialist; his primary responsibilities are to build and maintain all of the program’s graduate courses and support our online students and instructors.

Carie Behe

Carie Behe is an accomplished marketing professional, passionate traveler, and outdoor enthusiast with over 15 years of experience crafting global brand campaigns, public relations, and go-to-market strategies for top names in the outdoor and footwear industries.

Richard Blumenstein

Richard Blumenstein is the art director for Honor Games. He develops an encompassing art style and works on graphics, 3D models, and other art assets.

Hooi Yin Boey

Lynn Burkholder

Lynn Burkholder has more than 30 years of marketing, communications, and business development experience. She has served in management and leadership positions with a variety of service industries including hospitality, tourism, gaming, and entertainment.

Staci Romine Cadalzo

Yolanda Cal

Dr. Cal brings 20 years of advertising education and integrated marketing strategy experience to WVU.

Anna Campbell

Anna Campbell is poised to ignite transformation as an adjunct instructor for the College of Creative Arts and Media at West Virginia University. With an unwavering commitment to lifelong learning, Campbell embodies a relentless pursuit of academic excellence.

Jasmine Carver

Jasmine Carver is a demand generation leader for GE Aerospace and works part-time as a digital marketing tutor with CareerFoundry.

Nadia Chochol

Nadia Chochol is a marketing and brand strategist with 20 years of experience in the luxury fashion, education, and professional development industries.

Alan Christopher

Alan Christopher has not yet decided what he wants to be when (and if) he grows up. He and his family live in Austin, Texas, the live music capitol of the world.

Shani Compton

Shani Compton is currently an adapted physical education specialist.

Anissa Cooke-Batista

With over 20 years of experience, Anissa Cooke-Batista has a well-developed sense of what it takes to achieve organizational goals.

Stacey Creely

Stacey Creely is an adjunct faculty member in the Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) program at the West Virginia University College of Creative Arts and Media.

Craig Davis

With over 20 years of experience, Craig Davis has held integrated and interactive roles for agencies like Denstu Corporation of America, Poppe Tyson, USWeb/CKS, Arnold Worldwide and Saatchi & Saatchi NYC.

Michael DeLong

Michael DeLong is an award-winning, entrepreneurial and transformational leader who has been advancing the integrated marketing and communications discipline for more than 20 years.

Tim DeWitt

Natalie Eddy

Natalie Eddy has been an adjunct faculty member for the WVU College of Creative Arts and Media since 2004.

Kisstaman Epps (Kiss)

Kisstaman Epps grew up in Pittsburgh and relocated to Charleston, WV in 1995. She loves the country roads of West Virginia. Epps earned an M.A. in Communications with an emphasis in Corporate and Organizational Communication from West Virginia University.

Vince Filak

Vincent Filak, Ph.D. is an award-winning teacher, scholar and college media adviser, who currently serves as a full professor and newspaper adviser at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

Susan Gaide

Susan Gaide is a marketing/public relations/branding consultant for the music, entertainment and sonic branding industries.

Todd Gantzler

Todd Gantzler is a 2D and 3D artist and animator, game designer, educator, course developer, and author with more than 30 years of experience in computer graphics and animation for both film and games.

LaShanta Green

LaShanta Green is the director of marketing and community relations at Dow Credit Union. Her recognized successes include ideating and implementing measurable and meaningful change.

Nycole Hampton

Nycole is a seasoned marketer with nearly 20 years of experience, largely focused on social media, creator, and brand marketing.

Victoria Hrody

Vikki is a highly skilled 3D modeling and digital media artist specializing in 3D printing, animation, and game development using Unreal and Unity Engines. Her studio, Melonhead Studios, provides support to businesses across the United States.

Todd Hudak

Todd Hudak is a communications account representative at BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina and manages a wide variety of marketing communications projects.

Ranata Hughes

Ranata M. Hughes, a Florida native, works as an internship director and educator at Florida A&M University School of Journalism & Graphic Communication.

Gretchen Hurd

Gretchen Hurd is an adjunct faculty member at West Virginia University, and an instructor at Altered Productions Institute, Dance Unleashed, PK’s School of Dance, and Studio 412. Gretchen Hurd (Artistic Choreographer) received her BA in Dance from Slippery Rock University in 2002. She was a company member with Laboratory Company Dance (LABCO) (2004-2009), August Wilson Center Dance Ensemble (2009-2010), Dance Alloy Theatre (2010-2011).

Patrick Jones

April Kaull (Stolzenbach)

April Kaull is the Director of News for University Relations, overseeing the day-to-day operations of the unit, which is charged with telling West Virginia University’s story.

Kathy Keltner-Previs

Dr. Kathy Previs earned a Ph.D. in Communication from The Ohio University’s E.W. Scripts College of Communication in 2007.

Jeri Knowlton

Jeri Knowlton is the WV Content Marketing Queen (LLC) that specializes in helping businesses grow through strategic marketing initiatives, authentic content, and data-supported tactics that solve problems for the client.

Rebecca Kreider

Scott Lituchy

In 1988, back when photographers souped Tri-X by hand, Scott Lituchy began his photojournalism career at The Jersey Journal.

Joe Londergan

Londergan has spent more than a decade in the sports and entertainment industry in several different marketing and communications roles.

Stephanie Lorenze

Renee Martin-Kratzer

Renee Martin-Kratzer earned her doctorate and master’s degrees from the University of Missouri. She worked five years as an assistant professor at the University of Florida and now teaches online for different universities.

Kirsten McAlpin

Kirsten McAlpin is the director of marketing and public relations for Conger LP Gas, Inc., a propane marketer that serves over 40 counties in Georgia.

Stephanie Miclot

Dr. Stephanie Miclot has 20+ years in integrated marketing across various fields including social media, journalism, PR, advertising, and pharmaceutical marketing.

Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller, a 2009 WVU graduate, brings 24 years of sales/marketing experience to higher education. He's now Director of Performing Arts Admission at Baldwin Wallace University.

Ron J. Miller

Ron Miller loves marketing and design. Miller first landed at printing giant RR Donnelley. While managing marketing communications for the billion-dollar telecommunications business unit, he created new business ventures for the company, working on Mapquest, the first online Yellow Pages, and a suite of online retail merchandising tools.

Jad-Evangelo Nasser

Jad-Évangelo Nasser brings 8+ years of experience as a global and multicultural-focused media/communications professional with expertise in creative marketing strategies, client relationship management, and strategic communications.

Bill Nevin

Bill Nevin is associate vice president of communications for the West Virginia University Foundation, the private fundraising arm of West Virginia University.

Adam Osmianski

Carol Pasquariello

With over 35 years of marketing experience, Carol Pasquariello knows what it takes and how to build a brand.

Geah Pressgrove

Geah Pressgrove is an associate professor at the Reed College of Media where she teaches introductory, skills and advanced courses in the advertising/public relations program. Pressgrove is also the faculty advisor for the award-winning WVU PRSSA chapter.

Bobbie Rathjens

Bobbie Rathjens has 15 years of industry experience in marketing and communications. Rathjens most recently worked as the director of marketing at Boyne Highlands Resort (a nationally recognized golf and ski resort).

Danielle Rohe

Danielle Rohe is a digital marketing professional with 15 years of experience. She has worked across nearly all aspects of digital marketing after starting out as a “new media” assistant for a radio group.

Matt Saffron

Matt Saffron is a native of Morgantown, WV and has been dancing since the age of six. He has had extensive training in tap, jazz, and ballet. He won world honors performing in Germany as a member of the 2000 USA Tap Dance Team. Matt has been a featured dancer and dance captain in productions of Guys and Dolls, Will Rogers Follies, Oklahoma, 42nd Street, Mame, Beauty and the Beast, Thoroughly Modern Millie and A Chorus Line.

Ian Sampson

Ian Sampson is a cartoonist, printmaker, and interdisciplinary educator. He is currently engaged in expanding studies of graphic medicine, or comics about healthcare, at the university level.

Jimmy Sanderson

Jimmy Sanderson teaches at WVU College of Creative Arts and Media's online programs and leads Sanderson Media Group, focusing on social media strategy and sports research.

Charlie Scott

Charlie Scott is an artist, fabricator, and a West Virginia native. He received his MFA in Sculpture from Southern Illinois University and his BFA in Graphic Design from WVU. His work explores the valley between the mundane and magical. He makes sculptural assemblages that pair commonplace materials like plywood and plastics with historical materials such as cast bronze and iron. Since 2018, he has served as Adjunct Professor for the School of Art and Design, and has taught courses from Foundati

Hirali Shah

Hirali Shah is a professional Kathak teacher. She learned Kathak from GURU Pandit Shri Harish Bhai Gangani (Son of Pandit Shri Sundarlala Gangani) and Mrs. Kanan Desai. She has started learning Kathak at the age of 7. Hirali has completed B.A. and M.A. in Kathak and currently doing her PH.D. in Kathak (Natyashastra).

Richard Stalnaker

Inspired by his grandfather, Stalnaker began drawing at age 4. He's now a Motion Graphics Artist at WVU, contributing to national ads and animations for WVU landmarks. He also teaches at the George Romero Filmmaking Program in Monessen, PA.

Matthew Staudt

Matty Staudt started in broadcasting at 16 in Keyser, WV. He's worked at top stations like WJFK in DC, WNEW in NYC, and Alice Radio in San Francisco.

Daryl Stevens

Daryl Stevens has 30 years of experience in design and advertising, catering to a wide range of clients from startups to Fortune 500 companies. His work has earned international awards for websites and has been featured in national magazines.

William Suggs

William Suggs is a marketing professional and adjunct professor from Memphis, Tennessee.

Katlin Swisher

Katlin Swisher, a senior strategist at Campus Sonar, specializes in using social listening research to help higher education professionals. She also teaches media at WVU.

Barbara-Leigh Tonelli

Dr. Tonelli prioritizes her students' success in course facilitation, bringing extensive experience in journalism, public relations, marketing, advertising, research, mass media, sociology, international travel, economics, and commercial real estate.

Cara Verwholt

Cara Verwholt is Founder & Principal at Cara Verwholt Consulting, which provides strategic guidance to marketing leaders during transformational events such as go-to-market launches, rebrands, and distribution strategy pivots.

Patrick Warner

Patrick Warner has worked in marketing since 2003, and has spent over seven years at The Nielsen Company, a global leader in market research.

Rob Weber

Rob Weber has 7+ years in healthcare marketing and 12+ years in marketing communications. He's taught digital marketing, integrated marketing, and marketing strategy for over 6 years at Southern New Hampshire University and Black Hills State University.

Michael Wigton

Michael Wigton, based in Des Moines, IA, is a Teaching Professor at Iowa State University, his alma mater. He holds a Master’s degree in Strategic Communication from Concordia University, with a thesis on "Student Learning Through Social Media."

Kathryn Wilson

Kathryn Wilson has over 25 years of experience, including leadership roles such as the following: corporate compliance officer, human resources director, corporate communications director, customer services director and staff development director.

Renee Wyatt