Southern Illinois University

Graduate Student, Mass Communication and Media Arts

Program Director-Rights of the Person, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies

About

IEET Program Director: Rights of the Person, is a doctoral student in Mass Communication and Media Arts at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. Her work centers on the way popular culture presents issues of identity, body modification, cosmetic surgery, and emerging technologies. She has been a freelance writer since 2003 writing for a variety of magazines, most recently as a writer and copy-editor for h+ magazine.

Kristi served as an intern, writer/blogger, volunteer, teaching assistant and coordinator for the IEET beginning in 2007, and also as a reviewer, copy-editor, and layout editor for the Journal of Evolution and Technology.

She was elected to the Board of Directors of Humanity+ in 2010, is a member of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities, the Futurist Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, was a reviewer for the Journal of Virtual Worlds Research, was an invited member of the Judging Panel for the 2008 Udo Schuklenk Bioethics Essay Competition in Nigeria, and served as a contributor and blogger for the Women’s Bioethics Project.

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