Carolyn Malachi
Cathy Hughes School of Communication
Carolyn Malachi holds a master’s degree in Audio Technology from American University (2019), received a Fulbright-Hays award for her work in three Eastern Caribbean nations (2016), and celebrates the honorary doctorate bestowed by her undergraduate alma mater, Shepherd University (2015). Her music production work centers independent artists, filmmakers, and non-profit organizations. She is an Avid Certified Dolby Atmos Professional working as a freelance producer, engineer, composer and film sound editor under the moniker Call & Response. She is the creator of the eponymous, patent-pending interactive performance system and method for converting interactive data into money and sound (2022).
As a professor in the Cathy Hughes School of Communications at Howard University, Malachi teaches audio production courses. Her mixed-method research, for which she has received support from the Howard University Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership (2023), unites autoethnography and data analyses to develop counter-narrative sonic experiences.
Malachi’s extensive music performance history includes several engagements at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as well as international Jazz festivals and solo concerts in the UK, Japan, China, South Africa, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, St. Lucia, Barbados, and Grenada. She received a Best Urban Alternative Performance GRAMMY Award nomination for her single “Orion” (2010). Through her own music, production, engineering, and educational instruction, Carolyn Malachi carries on in the tradition of musical excellence established by her great-grandfather, the legendary Jazz pianist, Howard University educator and posthumous recipient of the Benny Golson Jazz Masters Award, John Malachi.
You can learn more about Prof. Malachi here: https://profiles.howard.edu/carolyn-malachi
Srikanth NandigamaAssistant Professor and Film-TV Sequence Coordinator
Cathy Hughes School of CommunicationSrikanth Nandigama is an award-winning cinematographer and educator. He is an Assistant Professor in Cathy Hughes School of Communications, Department of Media, Journalism and Film, and Undergraduate Film-TV Sequence Coordinator.
Professor Nandigama’s areas of teaching includes intermediate to advance level film production courses. His research focuses on psychological impact of Cinematography and he aims to explore various interactive/immersive methods of filmmaking and implement them in presenting socially relevant narratives.
You can learn more about Prof. Nandigama here: https://profiles.howard.edu/srikanth-nandigama
Dr. Valencia PerryAssistant Professor of Child Language & Sociolinguistics
Department of Communication Sciences & DisordersCathy Hughes School of Communication
Dr. Valencia Perry is a bilingual (Spanish) and bidialectal (African American English) speech-language pathologist and assistant professor of child language and sociolinguistics in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. She teaches graduate courses on research methods, applied sociolinguistics, and child language-literacy topics. Dr. Perry has clinical expertise in language development across the life span, language delays/disorders, multilingualism and sociolinguistics. She is licensed to practice speech-language pathology in Washington, DC and holds national certification by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
She is a principal investigator in the Sociolinguistics of Language and Literacy Research Lab as well as a clinical supervisor in the Howard University Speech & Hearing Clinic and an externship supervisor through her private practice, Speak Write LLC.
You can learn more bout Dr. Perry here: https://profiles.howard.edu/valencia-perry
Dr. Ingrid Sturgis
Associate Professor / Chair
Department of Media, Communications and FilmCathy Hughes School of Communication
Ingrid Sturgis is Department Chair and an associate professor specializing in new media in the Department of Media, Journalism and Film in the Cathy Hughes School of Communication at Howard University. Firmly rooted in traditional as well as digital journalism, she has worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers such as the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Times-Herald Record and the Poughkeepsie Journal as well as managing editor for two magazine start-ups. She has worked online since 2001 in positions such as editor-in-chief for Essence.com, and editor for AOL’s Black Voices, and more recently as a web strategist.
Consequently, digital media has become the focus of Sturgis’s research, which addresses the digital divide and how unrepresented groups may use social media to empower communities, which is critical for a healthy democratic society. To help further that aim, she is a co-chair of the School of Communications annual Social Media Technology Conference and Workshop. She has extensive knowledge and expertise in social media, digital media literacy, media misinformation, online education and the digital divide. She focuses on digital media and training students to use innovative storytelling techniques to serve diverse news audiences.
Sturgis has been recipient of a Fulbright-Hays U.S. Speaker and Specialist fellowship. And she received an NSF subgrant for the CPATH Distributed Expertise project. Other honors include AEJMC’s Institute for Diverse Leadership fellowship and Kopenhaver Center fellowship. She has edited and authored several books, including “Are Traditional Media Dead: Can Journalism Survive in the Digital World, ” “Social Media: Pedagogy and Practice.” Dr. Sturgis has a Ph.D. in Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies from Howard University, an M.A. in journalism from N.Y.U. and a B.A. in art from City College of NY.
You can learn more bout Dr. Sturgis here: https://profiles.howard.edu/ingrid-sturgis
