Education
Ph.D. Organizational Communication, Purdue University, 2015
M.A. Organizational Communication, University of Cincinnati, 2011
B.A. Communication, English, Saint Louis University, 2009
Biography
Megan Kenny Feister is an Associate Professor of Organizational Communication at California State University Channel Islands. She is passionate about environmental and social justice, community resilience, project-based and experiential learning, inclusion and equity, and community engagement. Her primary research interests include collaboration and innovation; values and knowledge in team-based work; team processes and decision-making; ethics; and technology and its impacts on organizational and personal life.
She is currently PI on a National Science Foundation grant investigating the cultivation of climates for ethical STEM work with co-PI Jeffrey Treem (University of Texas Austin). She maintains a variety of academic scholarship, community-based research, consulting, and capacity building.
Dr. Kenny Feister's classes combine foundational theory with project-based learning. She has partnered with over 100 local and national organizations and supervises her students as they deliver real-world, much-needed solutions to organizational problems. Dr. Kenny Feister also mentors students in research, the graduate school application process, job interview and salary negotiation preparation, and more.
Megan received her Ph.D. in Organizational Communication from Purdue University; her M.A. in Organizational Communication from the University of Cincinnati, and her B.A. in Communication and English at Saint Louis University.
Representative Courses Taught
- COMM 442 Organizational Communication
- COMM 329 Collaboration, Innovation, & Teamwork
- COMM 455 Leadership Studies
- COMM 499 Communication Capstone
- COMM 305 Qualitative Research Methods
- COMM 494 Independent Study
- COMM 333 Nonprofit Management
Scholarship
Keywords
Organizational Communication, Innovation and High-Reliability Organizing, Technology, Team Work and Collaboration, Ethics, Expertise, Community Engagement