INTERVIEW: Dr. Amy Aldridge Sanford: PowerUp Hero of Allyship #40

✨Congratulations to Dr. Amy Aldridge Sanford on being our PowerUp Hero of Allyship!Superpower: Social EmpathyLISTEN ONLINE: www.poweruphero.orgDr. Amy Aldridge Sanford grew up in rural Oklahoma in a homogenous community of 1,600 people. She was clueless to its lack of diversity and could not spell, define, or pronounce homogeneous. She used Pell grants and scholarships to pay for college, where her social justice consciousness was continuously challenged and refined. She graduated with a PhD in communication studies in 2006 from the University of Iowa. Today, Amy is an author, professor, and associate provost at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, an Hispanic-Serving Institution of 12,000 students in South Texas. She is the past president of the Central States Communication Association and has been honored with many local, state and national awards, including University Communication Educator of the Year in both Texas and Oklahoma. Amy lives with Gene, her spouse of 15 years, and their seven rescued pets. For more information go to: https://twitter.com/aasanford Congratulations on being our PowerUp Hero of AllyshipNominate our next hero here: www.poweruphero.orgPowerUp Your Life.#PowerUpHero #WorkHuman #NextGen#EliminateTechPoverty #PowerUpWork#WakeUpToPowerUp #PotentiaSursum#TimeToWork #Herowww.powerup.org