About The Writers

Kiersten:
Kiersten is currently employed at a law firm in San Francisco doing assistance for the Marketing department. She graduated in 2011 from Willamette University, with a degree in Rhetoric and Media Studies. Rhetorically speaking, she likes to investigate the affects of visual rhetoric on storytelling, visual rhetoric here including everything from that picture on your frozen dinner to feature films and websites. She also likes to point out what she considers effective (and ineffective) political communication. Her key interests, more specifically and less academically, include: Harry Potter, gaming, pandas, social media and in occasional bursts, politics.
See this post for Kiersten's biases.

Dani:
Dani is currently a senior at Willamette University, working towards a degree in Rhetoric and Media Studies. She is also an intern at a non-profit organization in Salem, Oregon, working specifically with Social Media Marketing. Her rhetorical tendencies lie towards the rhetoric of technology, sociological trends, apocalypse rhetoric, and narrative theory. Aside from rhetoric or school, she enjoys gaming, whales, electronic dance music, and graphic design.
See this post for Dani's biases.

Tiara:
Tiara is currently a Masters student at Syracuse University in Communication and Rhetorical studies. She graduated in 2011 from Willamette University with a B.A. in Rhetoric and Media Studies. Her main research interests are presidential rhetoric, war rhetoric, soldier accounts, memory studies, crisis rhetoric, and war films. She also ventures into framing, technology, foreign films, and sharks outside of academic settings.
See this post for Tiara's biases.