Journalism's Carolyn Nielsen co-moderates workshop on intersectionality at the AEJMC annual conference

Journalism Professor Carolyn Nielsen, the vice head of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication's Commission on the Status of Women, and Professor Kathleen McElroy of UT-Austin, the vice head of AEJMC's Commission on the Status of Minorities, co-moderated an Aug. 6 interactive workshop called "Intersectionality Beyond Theory" at AEJMC's annual conference in Washington, D.C.

Nielsen and McElroy co-created the workshop to engage with journalism and mass communication scholars who are interested in incorporating intersectional frameworks in their teaching, research, and service.