Kimberley Mangun is a professor in the University of Utah’s Department of Communication. Before earning a PhD at the University of Oregon, she worked as managing editor of alternative media publications, magazine publisher, and freelance writer. Her research on Beatrice Morrow Cannady was the basis for an Oregon Public Broadcasting documentary that premiered in May 2007. Mangun’s articles have appeared in American Journalism, Oregon Historical Quarterly, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, and African American National Biography.