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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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Ruth Osoro

Graduate Assistant in Communication Arts and Sciences
rao5269@psu.edu
316 Sparks Building University Park, PA 16802 University Park , PA 16802

Education

B.A., Moi University, 2017
M.A., Michigan State University, 2020
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, anticipated 2025

Professional Bio

Ruth Osoro is a PhD candidate in the department of Communication Arts and Sciences. Ruth's research interests lie broadly at the intersections of social influence, stigma and power. Specifically, Ruth studies resistance to problematic interpersonal influence, with a particular emphasis on resistance to stigmatization. Currently, her research examines the individual, social, and relational factors that promote and inhibit people's resistance to stigmatization. Further, her research examines the communication acts of allies during stigmatization encounters, and how people's intersecting social categories shape stigma resistance. Ruth teaches Effective Speaking (CAS100A) and Persuasion (CAS220) at Penn State.

Advisor: Dr. Rachel Smith