College of Communication and Education

Recorded Webinar

Date: Thursday, August 10, 2023 | 2 p.m.

Moderator: Dr. Rebecca Justeson (1992, Liberal Studies; 1996 Bilingual Specialist Credential)

Presenter: Dr. Angela Trethewey, Dean, College of Communication and Education

Dr. Angela Trethewey began her career at CSU, Chico, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication studies. Before returning to her alma mater, she received a PhD from Purdue and served on the faculty at University of Washington and as the Director of the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. She has devoted her career to the study and teaching of communication, particularly as it impacts our individual, organizational, and national identities. She is the author of many scholarly articles and books including Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint. 

Dr. Rebecca Justeson is a professor at California State University, Chico. She served as the Director of the School of Education for the past five years, and prior to that as both the Assistant Director of the School of Education and Director of the Rural Teacher Residency Program, a blended credential and master’s degree program within the School of Education. She also teaches coursework in the areas of literacy development and educational psychology, and has experience coordinating and supervising in field-based models of teacher preparation. Prior to arriving at CSU, Chico, Justeson served as both a reading specialist and a bilingual elementary school teacher. Her research interests include understanding and developing resilience in all populations, trauma recovery and healing-centered teaching practices, positive psychology, and reading/language arts methods. Rebecca studied positive psychology in the MAPP Program at the University of Pennsylvania and has also earned degrees in Educational Psychology and Bilingual/Multicultural Education. Additionally, she has extensive experience as a lead trainer, serving in that role for the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT), as a master resilience trainer with the US Army, as a resilience trainer for university systems across the country, and as a co-teaching trainer for the School of Education.