LaKresha Graham, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Communication program at Rockhurst University. She received her interdisciplinary doctorate from Arizona State University, focusing on intercultural communication. Her teaching and scholarship focus on the social construction of culture, communication, and identity. Her work examines interconnections of racial and feminist ideologies, social and socioeconomic justice, and communication by using qualitative and rhetorical methodologies. Her dissertation, Constructing an (un)natural disaster: A phenomenological study with Hurricane Katrina relief volunteers, studied the social construction of volunteerism, natural disasters, and identity during Hurricane Katrina reconstruction. She was also a 2014 Fellow of the Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication (SIIC) with the Intercultural Communication Institute (ICI).