Kendra Straub

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Pronouns: She/Her
Lecturer
School of Communication
College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts

SDSU

Email

Primary Email: [email protected]
Secondary Email: [email protected]

Phone/Fax

Primary Phone: 6195149127

Building/Location

Hardy Memorial Tower - 180

Files

Bio

Kendra leads special projects at Beneficial State Foundation, providing executive support to drive banking systems change. With 10 years of experience in research, strategy development, and project management, she has worked across the higher education, nonprofit, and banking sectors. In addition to her work at the Foundation, Kendra is a lecturer at San Diego State University in the School of Communication, with an emphasis on quantitative research. Kendra holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Northern Arizona University and a master’s in Communication from San Diego State University. She and her husband, Brandon, live in San Diego, where Kendra enjoys paddleboarding on the bay and working behind the pottery wheel.

Education

  • M.A. Communication, 2018. San Diego State University /Thesis: Bringing prep out of the closet: Understanding queer adult’s adoption of Prep explained through the health belief model
  • B.A. Political Science, 2016. Northern Arizona University Minor: Ethnic Studies

Areas of Specialization

  • Banking Systems
  • Strategy and Change
  • Health Communication
  • Quantitative Research Methods
  • The Application of the Health Belief Model in Understanding Health Behavior Adoption

Presentations

  • Record, R. A., *Straub, K., & *Stump, N. (2017, November). #Selfharm on #Instagram: A theory of planned behavior exploration of reporting self-harm via Instagram. Paper presented at the National Communication Association (NCA) Conference, Human Communication & Technology Division, Dallas, TX
  • Straub, K. (2017, November). #MyFather’sWhiteHood: Stormfront’s Cyberspace Hate Speech and Ideological Community Formation. Paper presented at the National Communication Association (NCA) Conference, Qualitative Approaches to On and Offline Communities Roundtable, Dallas, TX.
  • Straub, K. (2017, November). Fetishized Fetus Photography: The Moral Lesson of “Drama of Life Before Birth” Photography Essay. Paper presented at the National Communication Association (NCA) Conference,Visual Communication Division , Dallas, TX.
  • Burford, C, Straub, K., Shaffer, E., Ayres, J., & Stump, N. (2017, February). School Lunch Citizens: How Student Collaboration with Food Justice Organizations Creates Democratic Consumer Citizens. Panel presented at the Western States Communication Association (WSCA) Conference, Western Forensics and Argumentation Association, Salt Lake City, UT.

Publications

  • Record, R. A., *Straub, K., & *Stump, N. (2019). #Selfharm on #Instagram: Examining user awareness and use of Instagram’s self-harm reporting tool. Health Communication, 35(7), 894- 901. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2019.1598738

Service

  • San Diego Council on Literacy Board Member