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In coordination with an undergraduate-run organization called Students Teaching Students, CAS department faculty members mentor exemplary students who develop and teach 1-credit courses on a variety of subjects that advance expertise in communication and its role in public life. This semester, Associate Teaching Professor Lori Bedell is supporting undergraduates Kara Miller (who was in Lori’s RCL course a few years back) and Jess Strait as they teach a course titled “Period Talk: The Impact of Stigma on the Menstrual Equity Movement.”
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Vanessa McLaughlin

Lecturer in Communication Arts and Sciences
vxm21@psu.edu
220 Burrowes University Park , PA 16802
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Curriculum Vitae

https://cas.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2022/04/VMcLaughlin_Resume_2024.pdf

Education

B.A., University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993
J.D., Western New England College, School of Law, 1998

Professional Bio

Vanessa McLaughlin teaches CAS100A (Effective Speech) and CAS321 (Rhetoric and Law). She’s been teaching for 20 years at different universities, and 16 years at Penn State. Her background includes communications, brand promotion, content creation, journalism, and law. She lives in State College, with her husband, two sons. Because of her husband's career, she’s worked and traveled around the world including France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Morocco and Tunisia. Her goals for the future are to help students to become confident, effective communicators and listeners, who can promote understanding and compassion.