This month, we bid a warm farewell to Qi Wang of Villanova University, ICA's outgoing Student Board Member, whose diligent and committed service over the past two years has been a credit to the association. Thank you, Qi, for all of your hard work!
We also welcome our newest Student Board Member, Mikaela Marlow, a Ph.D. student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, as she embarks upon a two-year term of service. Mikaela writes:
Dear Students and Faculty members of ICA,
I am honored to have been selected as the incoming Student Board Representative. Thank you for all those who supported me and I am looking forward to working with many of you.
I was born and raised in the Hawaiian Islands and learned early on about the importance of appropriate communication in a diverse society. Up until now my scholarship has investigated the ways in which identity and group integration influence communication among diverse language, cultural, and collective communities. In the future, I will continue to explore such issues in academic and professional venues.
I look forward to working with all of you!
Aloha,
Mika
Rebecca and Mikaela are now planning the content of upcoming columns in this newsletter. If you have any topics you'd like us to cover, or if you are a student or faculty member would like to guest-author a column written with a graduate student audience in mind, please email us at rhains@salemstate.edu and mmarlow@umail.uscb.edu. We would be happy to hear from you!
