Faculty Fellow for Thriving at 鶹Ѱand Liaison to Faculty of Color and Friends • Associate Professor of Communication
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT

Joëlle Cruz is the Faculty Fellow in the Office of Faculty Affairs with responsibility for developing and managing programming that welcomes and supports tenure-line faculty and instructors during their first three years at 鶹ѰBoulder. Joelle oversees the Thriving at 鶹ѰSeries. She also serves as a liaison with Faculty of Color and Friends.

Joëlle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication. Building on postcolonial approaches, Joëlle is interested in rethinking and expanding what constitutes the “margins” in organizational communication. To this extent, she focuses on the interface between the following: (1) alternative organizational logics and forms (indigenous and grassroots modes of organizing), (2) cultural assumptions in organizational communication scholarshipand (3) globalization. Examples of projects have included women’s indigenous organizing in postconflict Liberia, LGBTQ grassroots organizing and political homophobia in Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia, and community organizing during and after the Ebola crisis in Liberia. Joëlle is multicultural and grew up and lived in Côte d’Ivoire, Zimbabwe, the Netherlands, France, and the United States. In her free time, she enjoys traveling and her latest adventures have taken her across Central and South America. When she is not busy traveling, she enjoys making art (drawing and painting), and perfecting her baking skills. She makes an amazing chocolate cake.