For the next month, the NASA director of Public Affairs will visit UF and share her expertise with students.
Lisa Malone has worked with NASA for more than 25 years, dealing with social media, news, communication and web content. Malone will now work under the Bob Graham Center for Public Service as the third Knight Fellow-in-Residence.
The Knight Fellow-in-Residence program is a three-year program funded by a $3 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The program allows the Graham Center to invite leaders to work with faculty and students, wrote Shelby Taylor, communications director for the center, in an email.
Malone will meet with faculty and staff in the College of Journalism and Communications and guest lecture in some of the classes in the college, as well as teach Public Relations Strategy with professor Juan-Carlos Molleda.
“She brings great knowledge and expertise to the university,” Molleda said.
He said that Malone will be giving students feedback and helping students with career advising in the college’s advising office.
“She’s bringing a wealth of experience into the hands of students,” Molleda said.
Malone will meet with various clubs, such as the Society of Women Engineers and the Public Relations Student Society of America.
Malone will speak about her time at NASA and answer questions.
[A version of this story ran on page 5 on 10/10/2014]
