Marisa Hill has been teaching communication for almost 20 years. She enjoys teaching about the thing we do more than anything else — communication. She teaches courses related to public communication, rhetorical analysis, persuasion in everyday life, and communication theories. Marisa has also taught at Boise State University, Texas A&M University and Idaho State University. She is a PhD Candidate from Texas A&M University. Her research interests range from the First Amendment Right of Petition (the “forgotten right") to social movement rhetoric to war rhetoric to public presentation in different cultures. In other words, studying communication in times of change and through various contexts. Marisa was recently awarded a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to participate in a group project in Taiwan where she will study public speaking norms and pedagogy in different cultures (now projected for June 2021). In Idaho, she helped create a pilot public speaking training course in conjunction with Jim Poston for the initial Boise Refugee Speaker’s Bureau, through the Idaho Office of Refugees (2015). This volunteer course helped provide refugees specialized training to aid them as they engage in public dialogue and advocacy. She continues to work with refugee families and agencies. Although she still claims Texas as “home", and lived in Idaho for 15 years before coming to UAC, she is delighted to be living and teaching in Korea. Marisa enjoys spending time with her family; they love water sports, hiking, trying new restaurants, camping, and watching college sports. They have a goal to visit all of the National Parks. They look forward to doing all of those very same things, but in Korea!

Prior to joining the UAC, C-H Kim (Ph.D. in Marketing, University of Oregon) was on the faculty in the School of Communication, Sogang University, serving as Dean, Director, Chair and other administrative positions. His major research interests include marketing communication, advertising, brand management, and consumer psychology. He has published research papers in academic journals such as Journal of Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Advertising, Mass Communication and Society, and Current Issues and Research in Advertising and served as co-editor for Creating Images and the Psychology of Marketing Communication. In addition, he has presented research papers at major international research conferences such as ICA, AEJMC, ACR, AMA, AMS, ACP as well as Korean conferences and has published more than 40 research articles in Korean academic journals. His industry collaborations include consulting for corporations such as SK Telecom, POSCO, and several major ad agencies in Korea such as Cheil Comm., Daehong Comm., and HS Ad among others and working for government organizations including the City of Seoul as a consultant and served as a board member at Korea Broadcasting Advertising Corporation(KOBACO). For academic community services, he served as chief editor of the Korean Journal of Adverting and the Advertising Research (Korean), and acted as co-chair of Advertising and Consumer Psychology(ACP) Conference which was held in Seoul. Currently, he is teaching Absolute Communication at the UAC, and graduate courses at Sogang University as professor emeritus and serves as Chair of Board, Kiturami Culture and Scholarship Foundation.

Dr. Sejin Kim currently serves as Director of the Communication Program at the University of Utah Asia Campus. He received his bachelor's degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked as an actuarial consultant at a U.S. consulting firm located in Seoul. After this professional experience, Dr. Kim decided to pursue his graduate degrees in Communication (M.S. from University of Louisiana and Ph.D. from Colorado State University). His current research interests pertain to strategic message design, persuasion, information processing, and public campaigns (e.g., health, environment, risk, and science). Dr. Kim has published journal articles and book chapters, and also presented papers at various national and international conferences. Through his research work, he would like to contribute to the creation of more effective messages in strategic communication as well as identifying appropriate channels for current and future communication campaigns. Dr. Kim and his wife are lucky to raise fraternal twins. Raising the twins offers them one more special reason to positively contribute back to the global community. Dr. Kim enjoys visiting beautiful national parks and meeting new friends from different parts of the world.

June-Young Lee is a media specialist and communication lecturer with a major broadcast journalism career and a commercial pilot instrument rated. He began his journalism career as a city desk reporter with KNN in Busan, Korea, in 2011. Also, he produced and hosted an investigative reporting program, ‘Into the World with June-Young Lee,’ covering illegal oil sales, mobile business touting, useless bike paths, etc. After two years, June-Young moved to Channel A in Seoul, Korea, and worked as a city desk reporter. His investigations focused on government and business corruption. He joined the Dong-Ah Daily Newspaper & Channel A task force team for cabinet candidate verification and reported on the moral hazard of candidates. He produced a series of reports on tax evasion linked to former presidents of Korea: Doo-Hwan Chun & Tae-Woo Roh, and leaders of conglomerates such as CJ and SK. As a business desk reporter, June-Young had written about safety issues of airlines in Korea – Asiana Airlines ignoring safety warnings & Korean Air’s ‘nut rage’ scandal. He also worked for YTN as a city desk reporter and producer(PD). He covered crimes in the Gangnam area and directed newsroom staff in a control room for a daily news show titled ‘NEWSTONG’ as the leading producer.

Dr. Heo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Utah. Before joining the U, he spent 15 years in academia, including serving as an associate professor and area head of Digital Advertising at Louisiana State University. Dr. Heo earned his doctorate in mass communication from the University of Florida, with an emphasis in advertising, and holds a master’s degree in advertising from Michigan State University. His research focuses on emerging advertising media, media audiences, media effects, and the advertising industry. Dr. Heo also brings a wealth of industry experience, having worked as a media director and planner at renowned global advertising agencies, such as Dentsu Young & Rubicam, Ogilvy & Mather, and Universal McCann.

Don MacAngus is an Associate Professor at the University of Utah, and has been teaching for several departments on a continual basis since 2002. He has a doctorate from the SJ Quinney College of Law, a Masters of Social Work, a Bachelors in Communication, and an Associates in Military Sciences. He is a military veteran, a grandfather, a businessman, a teacher, a lecturer, an author, a world traveler, and a Master Mediator, approved by the Courts of the State of Utah.

Paul S. Rose began working for the Department of Communication in 1980 as technical staff. He first received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Brigham Young University in communication, specifically, in broadcasting. While transitioning to more administrative and teaching responsibilities, he received a Master of Science (MS) and Doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) degree at the University of Utah. His master’s degree investigated the centripetal tendency of framed motion, which illustrates common traits people have anticipating direction of movement in media of motion. His Ph.D. degree examined the similarities between how people search the internet and how memories are retrieved, finding the processes strikingly similar. Professor-Lecturer Rose teaches in areas of visual communication, video production, and statistics, among other courses. He has received teaching awards including the Daniels Fund Leadership in Ethics Education Award. As a director/associate chair, he was one of the initial professors at the University of Utah Asia Campus in 2014. Beyond his academic endeavors, he has practiced in the TV/video industry, producing and supervising productions, and designing/implementing technical facilities such as video control rooms and studios and other technical instructional spaces. He has participated substantially in live sports productions including hockey, basketball, and two Olympic games, acting as a cameraperson and producer/director.