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Hyejin Shin

Students Teaching Students

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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Hyejin Shin

Graduate Assistant in Communication Arts and Sciences
hks5552@psu.edu

Education

B.A., Yonsei University, 2016
M.S., Yonsei University, 2021
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, anticipated 2028

Professional Bio

Hyejin is interested in how people communicate when facing health/risk challenges. Specifically, her research objective is to identify how collective actions affect health and the factors promoting such actions to manage health/risk challenges. Moreover, she would like to explore the causes and effects of stigma, prejudice, and discrimination against certain social groups in health/risk challenges. Through this research, she hopes to contribute to addressing health/risk challenges and advancing health equity.