Welcome to the Edna Anderson-Taylor
Communication Institute
What We Do
The Edna Anderson-Taylor Communication Institute, housed in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah, serves as a crossroads to bring together scholars, practitioners, and students from across campus, our local community, and well beyond. Together, we think about the role that communication plays in some of society’s most pressing problems—and how we can best work to address them.
Educating the Next Generation

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Feminist Mentorship and Pedagogy in Higher Education: Perspectives, Trends, and Applied Considerations
In this talk, Dr. Leandra H. Hernández and Dr. Stevie M. Munz will discuss their recent book project Queer, Women of Color, and Critical Approaches to Feminist Mentorship and Pedagogy.
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Living with Hereditary Cancer Risk: Translating Health Communication Research to Support Previvors and Families’ Communication and Decision Making
Previvors—survivors with a predisposition to hereditary cancer who have not been diagnosed with cancer—face chronic uncertainty that shapes their health and family-building decisions.
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“If I get free”: On Black religion, deconstruction, and digital media
In this talk, Dr. Anderson-Horne examines the transformation of Black religious practices within the digital religious deconstruction movement. She discusses how Black content creators and podcasts hosted by or featuring Black guests illustrate the relationship between race, religion, and technology. Black religious deconstruction is not digital by accident, but a demonstration of the ways decolonial and progressive activism must also challenge (religious) technoculture.